Biological Survey of Texas Records, 1889-1939

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Biological Survey of Texas Records, 1889-1939

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00175/00175-P.html

Photocopies of materials generated by the Biological Survey of Texas, lead by Vernon Bailey, for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey.

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Southwest Collection/Special Collections Libary, Texas Tech University

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Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942

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Vernon Orlando Bailey (1864-1942) was born 21 June 1864 in Manchester, Michigan. He was the sixth of eight children born to Hiram and Emily (Taylor) Bailey. At an early age he and his family moved to Elk River, Minnesota, where he developed an interest in natural history. Around 1885, Bailey began sending collections of birds and mammals to Clinton Hart Merriam, Chief of the newly created Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture (in 1896 the ...

Biological Survey of Texas

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The collection originated in the desire of Dr. David J. Schmidly to place copies of the documents generated by the United States Bureau of Biological Survey's investigations in Texas in an archive more accessible to those with an interest in Texas natural history. The original records are housed at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington D. C. In addition to acquiring copies of the original material, the project also accomplished preparation of computerized data bases of the reports a...