Charles C. Nutting papers, 1888-1926. [before 1970]

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Charles C. Nutting papers, 1888-1926. [before 1970]

The Charles C. Nutting papers include journals, correspondence, speeches and reprints relating to Mr. Nutting's work with the State University of Iowa Zoology Department and Museum of Natural History. This material documents several of his expeditions, including the Bahamas in 1893 and Barbados and Antigua in 1918.

0.75 linear ft. (3 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7118197

University of Iowa Libraries

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University of Iowa. Dept. of Zoology

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University of Iowa. Museum of Natural History

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Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927

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Charles Cleveland Nutting was born May 25, 1858, in Jacksonville, Illinois. He took his A.B. at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, in 1880. He worked as an assayer in Leadville, Colorado, before earning his A.M. from Blackburn College in 1882. Over the next few years, the Smithsonian Institution hired him to conduct expeditions to Central America for the purpose of collecting bird specimens. Mr. Nutting moved to Iowa City in 1886 to begin work on his Ph.D. degree. He worked as an assist...