Compare Constellations

Winfrid Alden Stearns Papers, 1871-1906

Title: Winfrid Alden Stearns Papers 1871-1906

Winfrid Alden Stearns (1852-1909) was an amateur naturalist, ornithologist, and ethnologist who corresponded with several prominent experts in the natural sciences. Among his works were a collaboration with surgeon and naturalist Elliot Coues, (1881-1883) and the self-published (1895) that was heavily criticized by university-trained naturalists. The collection consists of original letters with details about Stearns' publications, specimen donations, and ornithological work from 1871 to 1906. There are letters concerning his editorial collaboration with Coues and others, Stearn's works, and Stearns' travels to Newfoundland. Of particular interest are two letters from Charles Bendire accusing Stearns of inaccurate classification of specimens and poor proofreading of his manuscripts. (Both Stearns and Bendire worked with Coues.) The collection contains a picture of the museum Stearns curated in the 1880's. New England Bird Life A Manual of Ornithology

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet; 95 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.SMs.Coll.1-ead.xml View

Bendire, Charles, 1836-1897. Letters : to J.L. Davison, 1890-1893.

Title: Letters : to J.L. Davison, 1890-1893.

Requests to Davison for any information he or others he knows can provide for Bendire's book concerning bird species, especially eastern birds, and their nesting habits. The first letter is dated Jan. 10, 1890, the second Feb. 25, 1893.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936585 View

Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929. [Ornithological papers / Ridgway]

Title: [Ornithological papers / Ridgway] [1881-1910]

A collection of 12 articles and reprints from various sources.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709922459 View

Robinson, Wirt, b. 1864. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1894-1941.

Sixteen A.L.S. (1894-1902), three with A. envelopes, to Robinson from Allen, Bangs, Bendire, Brewster, Garman, Henshaw, Lucas, Miller, Scudder, Stone, Strecker, Taylor, and Thaxter, and T.L.S. (1941 Nov. 6) to Mrs. Robinson from Wetmore.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10386580 View

Charles Bendire Papers, 1874-1919, (bulk 1874-1919)

Title: Charles Bendire Papers 1874-1919 (bulk 1874-1919)

Ornithologist and army officer. Chiefly letters from ornithologists and naturalists relating to Bendire’s activities as honorary curator of the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 1,200 items; 6 containers; 2.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010158 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-B.xml View