Paul Bartsch Papers, 1901-1963

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Paul Bartsch Papers, 1901-1963

1901-1963

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217247

These papers include Bartsch's field notes based on his ornithological investigations in Haiti, the Florida Keys, and the West Indies; field notes pertaining to the Albatross Philippine expedition; field notes regarding the Tomas Barrera expedition to Cuba; extensive field notes, manuscripts, financial accounts, and correspondence regarding his explorations to the West Indies on the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, and the first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the West Indies; papers relating to the Bartsch process for the preservation of wood and fibres; student theses and reports done under Bartsch's guidance; publications, draft articles, and monographs including the text of Bartsch and Carlos de la Torre y de la Huerta, The Terrestrial Mollusks of the Family Urocoptidae in the Island of Cuba, with two supplementary reports, 1943-1950, unpublished; photographs of Bartsch and de la Torre, as well as of birds, mollusks, and research activities in Florida and the Caribbean.

2.6 linear meters

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Bartsch Paul, 1871-1960

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Born in Tuntschendorf, Silesia, Paul Bartsch (1871-1960) received an early interest in nature from his father, who was an entrepreneur and amateur naturalist, and an interest in medicine probably from his mother, who had received a degree in obstetrics at the University of Breslau. As a result of a depression in the 1880s, the elder Bartsch went into financial bankruptcy. By utilizing the last savings of Bartsch's mother, the Bartsch family was able to emigrate to the United States, fin...