Papers, 1940-1984.

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Papers, 1940-1984.

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Correspondence with Richard Dehm, Director of the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie regarding handling of German funds for purchase of specimens from the American Museum of Natural History, 1963-1969; correspondence with other paleoichthyologists including David Dunkle, 1964-1968; Walter Gross, 1953-1965; and Jean Pierre Lehman, 1950-1968. Additional correspondence with Alfred S. Romer concerned with collecting trips, students, and exchange of information about fossil fish specimens, 1940-1972. Correspondence with George Gaylord Simpson concerning administrative details of the Museum while Simpson worked in the field, publications arrangements for two manuscripts on penguins, establishment of the Simroe Foundation, and disposal of Simpson's professional library through the foundation, and obituaries, 1941-1984.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Simroe Foundation.

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Groß, Walter, 1941-

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Dunkle, David Hosbrook.

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Lehman, Jean-Pierre

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Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004

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Curator in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, and specialist in paleoichthyology. From the description of Papers, 1940-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509876 ...

Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred Sherwood Romer (1894-1973) was an eminent vertebrate paleontologist. He graduated from Amherst College in 1917 and then served during World War I in the American Field Service and, subsequently, in the United States Army. It is believed that when he was with A.F.S. he drov...

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...

Dehm, Richard

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