Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers 1864-1918 (bulk 1876-1916)

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Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers 1864-1918 (bulk 1876-1916)

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Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon. Correspondence, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material chiefly relating to Mearns's activities as a collector of data on animal and plant life, on his participation in the Smithsonian African Expedition of 1909, and his duties and assignments as an army surgeon.

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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