Handwriting samples of naturalists and others, ca. 1800-1970 (inclusive)

Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Morris, John Gottlieb, 1803-1895

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856

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Harris (Harvard, A.B. 1815; M.D. 1820) served as Librarian of Harvard, 1831-1856 and also lectured on natural history at Harvard, 1837-1842. He published about 100 articles on insects and insect-related diseases, compiled indexes to major works on entomology, and also wrote on squashes and pumpkins for the New England farmer. From the description of Papes of Thaddeus William Harris, 1818?-1852 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 40961354 ...

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915

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Frederic Ward Putnam (1839-1915) was one of the earliest anthropologists in the United States. He founded anthropology programs, and worked to establish museum collections in anthropology. He directed some of the first field expeditions in the Americas, including sites in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, and California. Putnam was born April 16, 1839 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Putnam III. In 1864, Putnam married Adelaide Martha Edmands; they h...

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883

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American entomologist John L. LeConte was the son of distinguished entomologist John LeConte. Born in New York and educated as a physician, LeConte's inheritance meant he never had to practice medicine; instead, he continued his father's work in entomology, publishing his first paper at the age of nineteen. He travelled across the United States and later the world collecting and describing insects, especially beetles. Many of his papers were translated and republished in Europe, and the collecti...

Osten-Sacken, C. R. (Carl Robert), 1828-1906

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Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878

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Pickering was a physician and a naturalist. He was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1823 but transferred to the Harvard Medical School and received an MD in 1826. In 1849 he was granted the AB with the Class of 1823. In 1827 he settled in Philadelphia where he practiced medicine and began active work with the Academy of Natural Sciences. He was appointed chief zoologist of the United States Exploring Expedition from 1838-1842. After this and other voyages, he made his home in Boston in M...

Blackwell, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1898-

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Harris, Edward Doubleday, 1839-1919

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Bryant, Owen.

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Sprague, F. H.

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Clark, Hubert Lyman, 1870-1947

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Ehlers, Ernst, 1835-1926.

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Rickett, Charles Boughey.

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Gabriel, Joseph

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Shmidt, P. I︠U︡. (Petr I︠U︡lʹevich), 1872-1949

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Randall, J. W.

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Leydig, Franz, 1821-1908

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Jenney, Charles S.

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Baur, Georg, 1859-1898

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Howe, Reginald Heber 1875-1932

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Ortmann, A. E. (Arnold Edward), 1863-1927

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Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918

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Richard Rathbun (1852-1918) was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his early education in the public schools of Buffalo and after graduation worked in his father's stone quarry business. Rathbun developed an early interest in the geology and paleontology of western New York, and by 1870 had deposited large collections of fossils in the Buffalo Society of Natural History. In 1871, Rathbun entered Cornell University on the advice of the distinguished Brazilian explorer, Charles F. Hartt. He le...

Macoun, John, 1831-1920

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Gerstaecker, A. (Adolph), 1828-1895

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Jacoby, Martin, d. 1907.

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Ziegler, Daniela

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Semper, C. (Carl), 1832-1893

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Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932

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Grey, Robert M. (Robert Melrose), 1861-1948.

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Matthew, George Frederic, 1837-1923

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Robinson, Wirt, 1864-

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Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1957

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James G. Needham was born on March 16, 1868 in Virginia, Illinois. He studied with John Henry Comstock at Cornell University, 1896-1898. From 1898-1907 he taught biology at Lake Forest University and then returned to Cornell as assistant professor of limnology. In 1914 when Professor Comstock retired, Needham succeeded him as head of the Department of Entomology at Cornell, a position he held until his retirement in 1935. He published numerous scientific articles, educational papers, and textboo...

Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956

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Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., (1869-1956) was born in Peterboro, New York, on December 6, 1869, and grew up on a large estate in central New York. In this relatively isolated setting and through the influence of his great uncle, an ornithologist, Miller developed an early interest in natural history. Following his graduation from Harvard in 1894, Miller joined the Biological Survey in the Department of Agriculture and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam. In 1898 he joined the United States National Mu...

Hyrtl, Joseph, 1811-1894

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Cabot, Samuel, 1815-1885.

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Fernald, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1838-1921

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Epithet: American zoologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003a7 Entomologist, author, Professor of Zoology; President, Association of Economic Entomologists, 1896. 1838 Born, March 16, Mount Desert, Maine to Eben and Sophronia (Wasgatt) 1862 Married, Augus...

Lilljeborg, Wilhelm, 1816-1908

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Clark, Elizabeth Hodges, 1855-1932.

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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930

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Archaeologist and head of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150523 From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83206603 Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was born in Newton, Massachusetts. His sc...

Mueller, August.

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Horn, George H. (George Henry), 1840-1897

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Woodworth, William McMichael, 1864-1912

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Woodworth graduated from Harvard in 1888 and taught anatomy and zoology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William McMichael Woodworth, 1891-1900 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972941 Grayling, Michigan physician; graduate of the University of Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery, class of 1853. From the description of William M. Woodworth papers, 1895 and 1900-1901. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 775598511 ...

Jackson, J. B. S. (John Barnard Swett), 1806-1879

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Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1829) was professor of pathological anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1854, Shattuck Professor of Morbid Anatomy from 1854 to 1879, served as dean from 1853 to 1855, and was also curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum. He studied gross pathological anatomy of diseased organs. From the description of Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506378 J.B.S. Jackson was the first...

Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915

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Epithet: FZS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x000110 Zoologist. From the description of Daniel Giraud Elliot correspondence, 1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009902 ...

Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913

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Ornithologist, explorer, lecturer and author. From the description of Frederick Albion Ober letters [manuscript], 1890-1892. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633557 Travel writer, novelist, naturalist, biographer, historian. In 1871, after the early death of his first wife, Ober abandoned his business and went on a major expedition to Florida to explore Lake Okeechobee, writing a series of vivid journal articles. During the last decad...

Casey, T. L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1831-1896

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Jones, James Paul.

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St. John, Orestes Henry.

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Deshayes, G. P. (Gérard Paul), 1795-1875.

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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...

Pourtalès, L. F. de (Louis François de), 1824-1880

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St. John, Harold

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American botanist. From the description of Papers, 1912-1957. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852960 Harold St. John was an American botanist and taxonomist known for his book, List and Summary of the Flowering Plants of the Hawaiian Islands. He was born in 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1917. St. John was a well-known professor of Botany at University of Hawaii where he served as chair of the Botany Depart...

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

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Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916) was an army surgeon and field naturalist. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna around his home in Highland Falls, New York. Mearns was educated at Donald Highland Institute, Highland Falls, and in 1881 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In 1883, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the Army and assigned to duty at Fort Verde, Arizona. He was transferred to Fort ...

Binney, Amos, 1803-1847

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Bullard, Charles Everett

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Charles Bullard was born in 1869 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was an assistant to W. G. Farlow for several years. From the description of Drawings of Charles Bullard, 1915-1921 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 175317150 ...

Hayward, Roland, 1865-1906.

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Dietz, William G.

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Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919

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Important German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered and named thousands of new species and is credited with coining the word ecology. From the description of Ernst Haeckel manuscripts and publications, 1876-1888. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 608105579 Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist. In 1862 he became a professor of comparative anatomy and director of the Zoological Institute of the Univ...

Batchelder, Mary Ann

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Dodge, Charles Richards, 1847-1918

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Photographer, textile fiber expert. From the description of Charles Richards Dodge letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1896 April 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 502141475 ...

Whitney, J.D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896

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Born in Northampton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1819, son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) , grad. Yale 1839, read law 1841, traveled and studied in France, Germany, Italy, 1842-45, worked survey of mineral lands of Northern Peninsula of Mich., 1847-49, Ia. State Chemist Ill. State Survey, Geologist of Cal., 1860-74, opened Harvard School of Mines, 1868, elected to Geol. Soc. of London. Author of Metal Wealth of the U.S. and other books. Married Louisa Goddard Howe in June, 1854, had 1 daughter. Died...

Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923

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Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923), American geologist and explorer, studied at the Royal School of Mines in Freiberg. He accepted a post in 1861 as a geologist for the Japanese government, and served two years in that position before traveling on through China, Mongolia, and Russia. He returned to the U.S. to study iron and copper deposits in Michigan and the Lake Superior district and from 1884-89 served as head of the New England division of the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1903 and 1904 he led exped...

King, G. Brooks (George Brooks), 1905-

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Lieutenant G. B. King of Sydney served with the 4th Battalion in France and Belgium, Apr. 1916 - Apr. 1919. From the description of An account of experiences in World War I, 1915-1919 [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225794193 ...

Harris, T. W., fl. 1884.

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Bentenmueller, William.

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Sahlberg, John Reinhold, 1845-1920

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Mark, E. L. (Edward Laurens), 1847-1946

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Student at the University of Michigan. From the description of E.L. Mark student notes, ca. 1871. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421322 Mark (1847-1946) taught zoology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edward Laurens Mark, 1868-1944 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973114 ...

Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell), 1844-1912

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Tyndall, John, 1820-1893

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British physicist. From the description of John Tyndall letters, 1869-1880. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122454707 Natural philosopher. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80044015 English natural philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London?], to an unidentified correspondent, [no year] Jun. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573...

Oliveira, Euzebio Paulo de, 1882-1939

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Brown, Wilmot W.

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Stainton, H. T. (Henry Tibbats), 1822-1892

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Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866

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Epithet: LLD, Professor at Glasgow University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0000a0 State geologist for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. From the description of Catalogue of the specimens composing the first state geological cabinet deposited in Harrisburg. [archival material]. 1837-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122581671 Epithet: geologist British Library Arch...

Nolan, Edward James, 1846-1921.

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Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

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Ernest Thompson Seton was an American writer, naturalist and outdoorsman. From the description of Ernest Thompson Seton collection. [1931]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676777117 Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton was born Ernest Evan Thompson in northeast England, and raised in Canada; he changed his name at the age of sixteen to distance himself from his father. He apprenticed with a portrait artist, and spent a year in England studying at the Roya...

Wiederscheim, Robert, 1848-1923.

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Weyenbergh, H. (Hendrik), 1842-1885

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Mann, William M., 1886-1960

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William M. Mann (1886-1960) was born in Helena, Montana. He attended Lyon School for Boys, Spokane, Washington, 1900-1902, and Staunton Military Academy, Virginia, 1902-1905. During a brief furlough from the academy in 1903, Mann worked as an animal cage cleaner at the National Zoological Park (NZP). After graduating from the academy in 1905, Mann worked as a rancher in Texas and New Mexico where he also collected entomological specimens. Mann attended Washington State College, Pullman, 1907-190...

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906

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Shaler (Harvard, S.B., 1862) taught paleontology and geology at Harvard and was Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. From the description of Papers of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 1872-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972881 Prominent geologist and scholar, served with the Kentucky Geological Survey, and as a professor at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. From the description of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler : paper...

Hood, Lewis E.

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Smith, John Bernhard, 1858-1912

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Entomologist; served as president of the board of health in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. From the description of Papers, 1902-1904 (inclusive) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155040099 Entomologist, of New Brunswick, N.J. From the description of Papers, 1902-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28417549 ...

Ogilvie, J. W.

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Dimmock, George, 1852-1930

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Brown, Arthur Erwin, 1850-

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Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891

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Storer graduated from Harvard in 1825, taught obstetrics and medical jurisprudence, and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School. From the description of Papers of David Humphreys Storer, ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972890 U.S. ichthyologist and obstetrician, 1804-1890. From the description of Letter, 1829, Oct. 15 : to Jesse Putnam. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31822022 Storer (Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1925) w...

Burmeister, Hermann, 1807-1892

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Brigham, William Tufts, 1841-1926

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Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942

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Townsend, Charles Henry Tyler

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Stejneger, Leonhard Hess, 1851-1943.

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Imhoff, Ludwig, 1801-1868

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Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 1826-1892

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Chemist and geologist. From the description of Letter of Thomas Sterry Hunt, 1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451083 ...

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864

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Geologist and college president, of Amherst, Mass. From the description of Edward Hitchcock letter, 1854 Jan. 5. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129604 American geologist; president of Amherst College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Amherst, to an unidentified recipient, 1850 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269606027 Edward Hitchcock was an eminent 19th-century scientist, minister and educator; pri...

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913

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Wallace was a naturalist and collaborator with Darwin on the theory of evolution. From the description of Letter, 1895, January 16, Parkstone, Dorset, to Wallis Mansford, Esq. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 123275202 Epithet: FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x00011f British naturalist. From the description of Letters to E. D. Girdlestone : ALS, 18...

Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville, 1830-1882

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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

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Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From the description of Letter from Richard Owen to Charles Léopold Laurillard to introduce John Gould, 1833 [manuscript]. [1833] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277137992 Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; authority on comparative anatomy, vertebrate paleontology and geology. From the description of Osteological contributions to the natural history of the chimpanzees (Tr...

Garman, Samuel, 1843-1927

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Entomologist with Powell expedition. From the description of Letters, 1868-1869. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 14972970 ...

Hagen, Hermann August, 1817-1893

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Epithet: of the Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x00004e ...

Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959

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Forbes was an American business and government executive. He served as governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913, and ambasador to Japan, 1930-1932. From the description of W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612734531 From the guide to the W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Busin...

Franklin, Henry James, 1883-1958.

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Lloyd, William Alfred.

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Woodworth, C. W. (Charles William), 1865-1940

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Myers, George S. (George Sprague), 1905-1985

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Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896.

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Forbes, Stephen Alfred, 1844-1930

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Professor and museum curator of natural history, and state entomologist of Illinois. From the description of Zoological congress correspondence, 1892-1893. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28413487 ...

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871

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British geologist. From the description of Papers, 1857 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35230784 English geologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Folkestone, to an unnamed correspondent, 1870 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612797 Geologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, 1847 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872039 Ro...

Bronn, H.G. (Heinrich Georg), 1800-1862

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Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903

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Explorer and anthropologist. From the description of Letter : to dear friend Philipps, 1868 Mar. 17. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57054222 Explorer and author. From the description of Papers of Paul Belloni du Chaillu [manuscript], 1890. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811989 African explorer. From the description of Paul B. Du Chaillu letters [manuscript], 1894-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record...

Wulsin, Frederick R. (Frederick Roelker), 1891-1961

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Frederick Wulsin collected and wrote about regions in China and Africa. He collected mammal specimens as part of the National Geographic Society's Central China Expedition, 1923. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_519_pid_EACP516 Wulsin was an anthropologist who collected zoological specimens in East Africa and Madagascar, 1914-1915; and in China, Mongolia, Kokonor, and Indo-China, 1921-1924. He made archaeological journeys to the...

Westwood, J.O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893

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British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts, and one of the pioneers in the publication of the pictures in illuminated manuscripts. From the description of Sketches and proofs for Illuminated illustrations of the Bible : copied from select manuscripts of the Middle Ages, 1846-1847. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79821976 British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts...

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 1793-1871

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Thaxter, Roland, 1858-1932

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American botanist. Educated at Harvard University (A.B. 1882, Ph.D. 1888). Assistant Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard, 1891-1901; Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, 1901-1919; Professor Emeritus, to 1932. Honorary Curator of Farlow Herbarium, Harvard. American editor of Annals of Botany. From the description of Papers of Roland Thaxter, 1882-1933 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177498276 ...

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...