Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908 1874-1908

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Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908 1874-1908

The letters concern a variety of topics, the most significant being Canada, geography, North American Indians, paleontology, geology, and the Geological Survey of Canada. Correspondents include Franz Boas, Elliot Cones, William Isbister, J. M. LeMoine, James C. Pilling, and E. F. S .J. Petitot.

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology

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The collection was probably amassed by James Howard McGregor of the Anthropology Dept. as the first part of a lecture on the evolution of man. The first part was entitled "Apes" and the second, "Studies of Man." Many photographs come from the Museum's Dept. of Public Education. From the description of Mammalogical photographs, [ca. 1914-1953] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155515619 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. ...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Petitot, Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph, 1838-1917

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Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. From the guide to the Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908, 1874-1908, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895

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Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. From the guide to the Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908, 1874-1908, (American Philosophical Society) Ethnologist, linguist, and bibliographer. From his participation in J.W. Powell's 1875 Rocky Mountain survey team until 1880, Pilling remained almost continuosly in the West, tabulating vocabularies of the Indian tribes. In 1885, the Smithsonian issued his "Pro...

Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir, 1825-1912

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Epithet: Canadian author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x000040 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. From the guide to the Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908, 1874-1908, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Isbister, William

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William Isbister was a British publisher. In 1858, he partnered with Alexander Stuart Strahan to found the publishing firm of Strahan & Co., which moved from Edinburgh to London in 1862. In its early years the company specialized in devotional works, illustrated literature for children, and inexpensive reprints of American ns2:titles. After moving to London, the firm also published fiction, poetry, and essays by popular authors of the day. The firm also established several impor...

International Congress of Americanists

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Bell, Robert, 1841-1917

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Robert Bell was a Canadian geologist and director of the Geological Survey of Canada (1901-1906). From the description of Correspondence, 1874-1908. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689432 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. From the guide to the Robert Bell correspondence, 1874-1908, 1874-1908, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921

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Ornithologist, Curator in the Dept. of Mammalogy and Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1870-1920, 1899-1903 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513490 Ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1868-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510520 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. ...

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Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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American naturalist. From the description of ALS, 1874 Aug. 25, Rocky Mountains, lat. 40° N [Montana], to Thomas George Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617038 William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence,...