Pratt Museum papers, 1876-1967.

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Pratt Museum papers, 1876-1967.

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Includes reports to the Amherst College Board of Trustees by B.K. Emerson, correspondence related to Museum activites (B.K. Emerson and F.B. Loomis), clippings, reports, photographs, diaries and catalogues of the various collections. Also contains documents, examinations and class notes from the Geology Dept. Includes documents on the geology expeditions to Patagonia, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

12 archives boxes (6 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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Amherst College. Library

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Pratt Museum of Natural History

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The Pratt Museum of Natural History opened in the 1940s to house Amherst College's natural history collections after the renovation of the Pratt Gymnasium. (The gymnasium, built in 1883, had been named after its donor, Charles M. Pratt, AC 1879.) Until that time, most of the collections had been held in Webster Hall, and before that in various scientific "cabinets" in various locations on campus. The Pratt Museum's holdings, collected since the 1820s from around the world and compri...

Loomis, Frederic Brewster, 1873-

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Frederick Brewster Loomis, the son of Nathaniel H. And Julia R. (Brewster) Loomis, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1873, and was fitted for college at Rochester Free Academy, Rochester, N.Y., and Canandaigua Academy, Canandaigua, N.Y. After graduation from Amherst College in 1896 he was an assistant in biology at Amherst, 1896-1897. He studied at the University of Munich, Germany, 1897-1899, where he received the degree of Ph. D. Returning to Amherst, he was instructor in biology at Amherst...

Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, 1843-1932

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Emerson was born on December 20, 1843, in Nashua, New Hampshire, the son of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Kendall) Emerson. He prepared for college at Tilton Academy in Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1865 with honors and from there he went to Groton Academy to teach chemistry and zoology. In 1867 he went to Germany to study geology and received his Ph. D from Göttingen in 1870. He returned to Amherst where he stayed as Professor of Geology (later Professor Emeritus) for the remainde...

Amherst College. Dept. of Geology.

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