Museum purchases, gifts, and expeditions, 1831-1970.

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Museum purchases, gifts, and expeditions, 1831-1970.

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Lists of various collections of fossil vertebrates acquired through purchase or on expeditions provide dates, collectors' names, field numbers, and Museum numbers. Some correspondence and drawings of fossils may be included. Collecting localities are in the United States; other lists provide information about fossils from the Siwalik Collection from Punjab, India. Detailed field diary and lists for Tom Rich's Expedition to Como Bluffs, Wyoming, 1969. Of special interest are photocopies of correspondence with John Collins Warren pertaining to the famous Warren Mastodon skeleton and other Mastodon bones, 1831-1854, including sites and authentication; "Visitors to Warren's Mastodon Museum in Boston, 1869-1906;" and photographs of the Warren Mastodon site and accompanying notes, 1920.

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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 ...

Warren's Mastodon Museum (Boston, Mass.)

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Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856

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John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist, was born in Boston in 1778, the son of Harvard physician John Warren and Abigail (Collins) Warren. He graduated from Harvard College in 1797 and began the study of medicine with his father. From 1799 to 1802 he studied medicine in Paris and London. When he returned, he went into practice with his father. In 1809, Warren became adjunct professor in anatomy and surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1815 succeeded his father as professor, a position h...

Rich, Tom

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