Papers, 1901-1942, 1901-1937 (bulk)

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Papers, 1901-1942, 1901-1937 (bulk)

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Biographical information including articles, news clippings, and photographs; a manuscript and accompanying photographs for his unpublished paper about Moropus cooki from western Nebraska, and correspondence about MOROPUS and associated data, 1917-1936; correspondence dealing with a lecture series entitled "Origin and Development of Life," 1916. Correspondence and data from William D. Matthew, William K. Gregory, and W.J. Holland, undated, for a study of Sauropoda and of Crocodilia, jointly published by Osborn and Charles C. Mook, 1901-1921. Other correspondence primarily between Osborn and Arthur Lakes regarding Morrison Formation where dinosaurs were discovered, and Lakes' recollections of dinosaur remains in Wyoming and Colorado, 1912-1915. In addition, photograph of expedition party consisting of Osborn, Walter Granger, and others to Montana and Wyoming, 1932. Also, newspapers and other clippings relating to the Darwin and Man vs. Ape controversy, 1927-1930.

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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...

Lakes, Arthur, 1844-1917

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Holland, William Jacob, 1868-1932.

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Mook, Charles Craig

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Collector for the Frick Laboratory. From the description of Papers, 1900-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509845 ...

Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970

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Vertebrate paleontologist, Curator in the Dept. of Comparative Anatomy, Ichthyology, and Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History; and Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Columbia University. He died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1906-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485193 William King Gregory, vertebrate paleontologist and ichthyologist, was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor...

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...