Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe papers 1913-1952

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Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe papers 1913-1952

Correspondence, reports, manuscripts and research material relating to Thorpe's geological surveys in Utah, to his work on vertebrate paleontology, to his directorship of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and to his work for the H. Emerson Tuttle Memorial Fund.

5.5 linear feet (9 boxes, 1 folio)

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