Papers, 1880-1896 (bulk)

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Papers, 1880-1896 (bulk)

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Papers include correspondence; notebooks of insect drawings by Scudder, A. Frič (1896), J.H. Blake (beetles), C. Brongniart, E.F. Germar, F. Goldenberg and G. de Saporta (relating to Scudder's Fossil butterflies); clippings about fossil insects (1882); 3-vol. catalog of fossil insects of the Scudder collection (entries numbered 1-17727); and other items.

2 linear ft.

Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Blake, James Henry, 1845-1941

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Blake studied under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School beginning in 1864 and three years later was hired as a student-assistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology to help Agassiz organize the Thayer Expedition collections. By 1868 he was working in the MCZ's Conchology Department, drawing anatomical features of freshwater mollusks, and later served as zoological artist on the Hassler Expedition (1871-1872). From the description of Scrapbook of clippings, photographs, c...

Frič, Antonín, 1832-1913

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Brongniart, Ch. (Charles), 1859-1899

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Epithet: FES British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x0003c9 ...

Goldenberg, Friedrich (Carl Friedrich), 1798-1881

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Germar, E. F. (Ernst Friedrich), 1786-1853

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Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911

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Epithet: palaeontologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0001c4 Samuel H. Scudder was an American entomologist and paleontologist. Scudder specialized in the study of Orthoptera, which at that time was defined to include grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and other insects. He also did extensive work on the classification of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera (beetles), and was a pion...

Saporta, Gaston, marquis de, 1823-1895

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