Correspondence, 1936-1968.

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Correspondence, 1936-1968.

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Bogert's correspondence primarily reflects his research in many aspects of herpetology, especially Gila monsters, snakes, and thermal ecology of reptiles. Included are letters he wrote while conducting field work in Mexico and the American Southwest. Correspondence with Raymond B. Cowles concerns thermal ecology; Bogert and Roger Conant corresponded about their research projects and personal lives. Other leading herpetologists with whom Bogert maintained contact are E. Ross Allen, W. Frank Blair, George M. Bradt, Walter C. Brown, Fred R. Cagle, Doris M. Cochran, Helen T. Gaige, Howard K. Gloyd, Alice G.C. Grandison, Norman Hartweg, Peter Paul Kellog, Laurence M. Klauber, Arthur B. Loveridge, Thomas C. MacDougall, Sherman A. Minton, A.D. Moore, M. Graham Netting, James A. Oliver, H.W. Parker, Clifford H. Pope, Jay M. Savage, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Hobart M. Smith, Robert C. Stebbins, Ernest E. Williams, and William H. Woodin. Other correspondence reflecting his responsibilities as curator and chairman pertain to collection management, identification of specimens, publications, field trips, queries from the public, Museum and departmental administrative matters, and related concerns.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Herpetology.

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Collecting area: Materials relating to the scientific specimens housed in the Department of Herpetology. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155512229 ...

Grandison, Alice G. C. (Alice Georgie Cruickshank)

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Kellog, Peter Paul, 1899-

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Brown, Walter Creighton, 1913-....

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Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1883-1968

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Klauber was a student at Stanford University at the time of the earthquake. From the description of Two days in San Francisco, 1906 : typed transcript, [1958?]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122444020 ...

Cagle, Fred Ray, 1915-

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Smith, Hobart M. (Hobart Muir), 1912-2013

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Hobart Muir Smith (1912-) was born on September 26, 1912, in Stanwood, Iowa. He attended Kansas State University, studying entomology, and Kansas University for his masters on Amphibians. After earning his Ph.D. in lizards (genus Sceloporus), he completed post-doctoral work at University of Michigan on "biogeographic summary of the snakes of North America." Smith spent considerable time throughout his studies and field work in North America and Mexico. He collected specimens, documented in the D...

Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974

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Herpetologist, museum curator. Pope was Assistant Curator in the Dept. of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History from 1928 to 1935. He died in 1974. From the description of Correspondence, 1927-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510747 ...

Hartweg, Norman Edouard, 1904-1964.

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Bogert, Charles M. (Charles Mitchell), 1908-

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Charles C. Bogert, 1st sergeant, Company E, United States Infantry. From the description of Letter: to Joseph Morris /by Charles C. Bogert 1867 Dec 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132409 Herpetologist, museum curator. Bogert was Chairman and Curator of the Dept. of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, 1936-1968. From the description of Correspondence, 1936-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510570 ...

Gaige, Helen Beulah Thompson.

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Cochran, Doris M. (Doris Mable), 1898-1968

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Doris Mable Cochran (1898-1968) was born in North Girard, Pennsylvania on May 18, 1898, and came to Washington, D.C., when her father received a government position. In November 1919 she was appointed an Aid to Leonhard Stejneger in the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians of the United States National Museum. She advanced through the Division becoming Assistant Curator in 1927, Associate Curator in 1942, and Curator in 1956. As Stejneger grew older, more of the work of the Division fell to Cochr...

Conant, Roger, 1909-2003

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Parker, H. W. (Hampton Wildman), 1897-1968

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Netting, M. Graham

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Dr. M. Graham Netting, director emeritus of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, has been very active in the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Pittsburgh Zoological Society and the Civic Club of Allegheny County, as well as other local and national civic and scientific organizations. From the description of Papers 1920-1987. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 30953187 ...

Minton, Sherman A.

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Cowles, Raymond B. (Raymond Bridgman), 1896-1975

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Biography / Administrative History Ecologist, naturalist, and teacher Raymond Bridgman Cowles was born in 1896 in Natal, South Africa to missionary parents. He left Africa for the United States where he attended school, worked, served in the military during WWI, and attended Pomona College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1920. Following field work in Africa from 1925-27, he received his PhD in zoology from Cornell in 1928 and began working at...

Blair, W. Frank, 1912-

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Savage, Jay Mathers

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Stebbins, Robert C. (Robert Cyril), 1915-2013

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Robert C. Stebbins is emeritus professor of zoology and emeritus curator of herpetology at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Robert C. Stebbins illustrations of western reptiles, amphibians and birds [graphic]. ca. 1953-ca. 2003. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 298764599 ...

Bradt, George B.

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Woodin, William H. (William Hartman), 1868-1934

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Schmidt, Karl Patterson, 1890-1957

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Herpetologist, museum curator. Schmidt was Assistant Curator in the Dept. of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1916 to 1922. From the description of Correspondence, 1917-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510757 ...

Allen, E. Ross, 1908-1981

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Gloyd, Howard K. (Howard Kay), 1902-1978

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Shaw, Charles Ernest, 1932-

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MacDougall, Thomas C.

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Loveridge, Arthur, 1891-....

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Curator of Museum of Comparative Zoology Herpetology Dept., 1927- 1957. From the description of Photograph album, 1907-1914 (inclusive) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 181161415 ...

Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981

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Herpetologist, Associate Curator in the Dept. of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1946-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510728 American zooligist. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Geoffrey Hellman, 1966 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756224787 James A. Oliver, a herpetologist, was director of the American Museum of Natural History from 1959 to 1...

Moore, A. D.

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Williams, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward)

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