General correspondence files, 1909-1980, 1929-1960 (bulk).

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General correspondence files, 1909-1980, 1929-1960 (bulk).

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Correspondence of many of the department's past curators with colleagues, collectors, benefactors, and the public concerning collection management, acquisition of collections, expeditions and field trips, exchange of scientific information, identification of specimens, and publications. Former curators and other individuals associated with the department who are represented in the collection include Mont A. Cazier, William P. Comstock, John A.L. Cooke, C. Howard Curran, Frank E. Lutz, Charles D. Michener, John C. Pallister, Herbert Ruckes, Herbert F. Schwarz, and Patricia Vaurie. Their correspondents include Paul H. Arnaud, Jr., Joseph Bequart, F. Martin Brown, Philip J. Darlington, William T. Davis, Lawrence S. Dillon, Cyril dos Passos, William T.M. Forbes, E. Gorton Linsley, Paulo Nogueira-Neto, William Proctor, David Rockefeller, and Harry G. Weiss. Correspondence also deals with departmental and Museum affairs such as Museum executive and administrative offices, budgets, expenses, personnel, plans and reports, and fee schedules for identification of specimens. In addition, field notes for the Lang-Chapin Congo Expedition, 1909-1915.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Entomology.

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Bequart, Joseph.

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Davis, William T. (William Thompson), 1862-1945

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Entomologist, historian. From the description of Davis, William T, 1862-1945 papers, 1922-1946. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155570284 Entomologist, historian. Davis, a Staten Island native, was a self-trained entomologist, active in the Staten Island Istitute of Arts and Sciences and the Staten Island Historical Society, a published historian, and an amateur photographer. From the description of Davis, Willi...

Proctor, William Henry, 1945-

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Arnaud, Paul Henri, Jr.

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Weiss, Harry A.

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Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986

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Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-

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Herbert Ferlando Schwarz was an amateur entomologist who specialized in the study of stingless bees (Meliponidae). He was appointed a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in 1921, a position he held until his death, and was the editor of Natural history magazine from 1921 to 1925. Following the death of Frank E. Lutz in 1943, Schwarz served as acting chairman of the Dept. of Insects and Spiders until 1946. Schwarz earned degrees in literature and ...

Forbes, William T. M. (William Trowbridge Merrifield), 1885-1968

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William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes was a professor in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. He published about 150 scientific papers on insects and wrote LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES, a four-part work. He was president of the Lepidopterists' Society in 1953 and was later elected a life member. He was critical of Cornell's administration of campus grounds, especially of construction on sites which he felt were potentially valuable biological reserves. ...

Pallister, John, PhD

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Lang-Chapin Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

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Comstock, William Phillips

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Cooke, John, A. L.

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Darlington, Philip Jackson, 1904-1983

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Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr. (1904-1983) received his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1931. He was the Fall Curator of Coleoptera (1940-1962), Curator of Insects (1952-1962) and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (1962-1971) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), and several specialist societies. From the description of Papers of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., ca. 1924-1983 (i...

Vaurie, Patricia

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Rockefeller, David, 1915-2017

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David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915, New York City – died March 20, 2017, Pocantico Hills, New York) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from July 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockef...

Michener, Charles Duncan, 1918-....

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Linsley, E. Gorton (Earle Gorton), 1910-2000

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Curran, Charles Howard, 1894-1972

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Ruckes, Herbert, 1923-

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Dillon, Lawrence S.

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Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993

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Nogueira-Neto, Paulo

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Cazier, Mont A.

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Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943

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Frank E. Lutz, a biologist and entomologist, was associate curator of the Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 1917-1921, and chairman of Insects and Spiders, Dept. of Entomology, 1921-1943. For his postgraduate work, Lutz concentrated in the new field of biometry, the combination of biology and mathematics, studying species of Gryllus (crickets) and Drosophila (fruit-flies), and developing a life-long interest in experimental biology. After...