Harry H. Sheldon Papers 1913-1915

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Harry H. Sheldon Papers 1913-1915

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This collection contains correspondence, field notes and other papers of Harry H. Sheldon, curator of mammalogy at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now the Denver Museum of Nature &amp Science, from 1913 to 1915.

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Colorado Museum of Natural History

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Elmer W. Merritt was a trustee and founding father of the Colorado Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Merritt was born in New York State on October 31, 1861, attended the University of Ann Arbor and arrived in Denver in 1879. He went into the lumber and mercantile business and eventually became connected with the Continental Oil Co. In 1885 he began a career in real estate and investment securities, forming the firm Merritt and Gromman. He served as Secretary ...

Sheldon, Harry H.

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Harry H. Sheldon served as Curator of Mammalogy at the Colorado Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) from 1913 to 1915. Based on his correspondence, Sheldon was a hunter and an avid fieldworker whose efforts helped build the relatively new Museum's collection of mammal specimens. He left Denver in the 1920s and worked for several years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History alongside ornithologist and mammalogist Egmont Z. Rett, also form...