Field diaries, 1891-1970.

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Field diaries, 1891-1970.

Field diaries maintained by collectors of fossils for specimens found mainly in the United States but also overseas. Diaries list specimens found and location of find and record day-by-day activities and step-by-step findings. Diaries frequently are illustrated with sketches of collecting locality and geology of the region. Field collectors represented by many diaries are William D. Matthew, Walter Granger, Barnum Brown, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Roland T. Bird, George Olsen, William Stein, Charles Falkenbach, George Gaylord Simpson, and George Whitaker.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Collecting area: Records relating to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology's activities in the field and laboratory. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155512262 ...

Falkenbach, Charles H., 1902-1962.

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Paleontologist, specialist in oreodonts. Falkenbach worked for the American Museum of Natural History and the Frick Laboratory for forty-six years, and was a pioneer in systematic stratigraphic vertebrate paleontology. From the description of Papers, 1924-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509666 ...

Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984

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George Gaylord Simpson was a vertebrate paleontologist perhaps best known for his contributions to the founding and further articulation of the modern evolutionary synthesis. He studied at Yale University (Ph.D. 1926), having initially worked at the American Museum of Natural History in 1924. He returned to work the AMNH as a curator (1927-1942) and later as chairman of the Department of Paleontology and Geology (1942-1959). Simpson accepted an Alexander Agassiz Professorship from Harvard's Muse...

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...

Stein, William E., 1946-

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Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930

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William Diller Matthew was a vertebrate paleontologist and geologist. Matthew joined the American Museum of Natural History in 1895 as an assistant in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, eventually becoming curator in 1911. At the death of E.O. Hovey in 1924, Matthew was appointed acting curator of the Dept. of Geology. In 1927 Matthew went to the University of California as professor of paleontology and curator of the paleontological museum. From the description of Papers, 1922-19...

Bird, Roland T. (Roland Thaxter), 1899-1978

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Whitaker, George O.

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Brown, Barnum

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Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Expeditions, 1898-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509515 Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Dinosaur materials, 1924-1940. (Unknown)...

Granger, Walter, 1872-1941

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Olsen, George Henry.

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