Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession, 1920-1947 (bulk 1934-1944)

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947

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Gallenkamp, Charles.

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Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940

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Herpetologist, Chairman of the Dept. of Herpetology and the Dept. of Experimental Biology, American Museum of Natural History. Noble was instrumental in developing the modern science of animal behavior. From the description of Papers, 1919-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510694 ...

Reeds, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1882-1968

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Chester Albert Reeds was a geologist and museum curator. Reeds joined the American Museum of Natural History in 1912 as assistant curator in the Dept. of Geology and Invertebrate Paleontology, eventually becoming associate curator, then curator in 1927, following W.D. Matthew's move to California. During the years 1924 to 1930, Reeds was also the editor for Division I of the AMNH Publication Committee, overseeing the AMNH bulletins, novitates, memoirs and guide leaflets ...

Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953

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Illustrator. From the description of Charles Robert Knight papers, [ca. 1948-1961]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83754979 Artist. From the description of Papers, 1935-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155544155 Charles Robert Knight (1874-1953) was an artist, writer and paleontologist. He did paintings and models of prehistoric animals for the U.S. government and museums in New York City and elsewhere. He also painted a series of murals for the Amer...

Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-

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Berkey received the first doctorate in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1897. He achived recognition for excellence in teaching at Columbia University, geological engineering with the New York City Catskill Aqueduct, geological consultation about the world's four highest dams, & geological exploration of the Mongolian desert. From the description of Charles P. Berkey papers, 1884-1955 [manuscript] (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 570638575 ...

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960

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Zoologist, explorer, and author. From the description of Roy Chapman Andrews correspondence, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449556 Naturalist and explorer, leader of the Asiatic Zoological Expeditions and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, director of American Museum of Natural History from 1935 to 1941. From the description of Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930 [microform] / Roy Chapman Andrews. 1919-1930. (American Museum of Natural His...

Adamson, Hans Christian.

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Lieutenant Colonel, Air Corps, Special Assistant to the Commanding General of the Army Air Force From the description of Carbon copy of a typed letter signed with initials : [Washington. D.C.], to Commanding Officers, Army Air Forces Stations, 1942 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775601400 ...

Hobbs, William Herbert, 1864-1952

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Professor of geology at University of Michigan and chairman of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, branch of the National Security League during World War I. From the description of William Herbert Hobbs papers, 1884-1950 (bulk 1919-1941) (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778157 From the description of William Herbert Hobbs papers, 1905-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423391 Professor of geology at the University of Michigan. Fro...

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

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Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971

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Ralph W. Chaney was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at the University of Chicago. From 1922 he was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution and from 1931 a professor of paleobotany at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for his ecological approach to paleobotany. From 1943 he was a member of the U.S. National Park Service Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and from 1928 a member and officer of the Save the Redwoods League. ...

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...

Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970

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Vertebrate paleontologist, Curator in the Dept. of Comparative Anatomy, Ichthyology, and Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History; and Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Columbia University. He died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1906-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485193 William King Gregory, vertebrate paleontologist and ichthyologist, was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor...

Lattimore, Eleanor Holgate, 1895-1970

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Butler, Frederick

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Frederick B. Butler was a cartographer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He was appointed assistant topographer for the 1925 field season of the Central Asiatic Expeditons. From the description of Collection on the 1925 field season of the Third Asiatic Expedition, 1924-1927 (bulk 1925-1926). (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 55005388 ...

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and philosopher, was born May 1, 1881, at Sarcenat, in the Dept. of Puy de Dôin, France, and educated at the College of Mongréin Villefranche-sur-Saô. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1899 at Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1911. From 1912-1914 he studied paleontology under Marcellin Boule in Paris. After a period of teaching in Cairo, service in World War I as a stretcher-bearer, and further teaching at the Institut catho...

Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974

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Herpetologist, museum curator. Pope was Assistant Curator in the Dept. of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History from 1928 to 1935. He died in 1974. From the description of Correspondence, 1927-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510747 ...

Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958

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Naturalist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History; founder of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. From the description of Journals, 1904-1958 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538518 Poet and naturalist. From the description of Papers, 1915-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155537462 Naturalist at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. From the des...

Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943

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Woollcott, American critic, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and the inspiration for the character of Sheridan Whiteside in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. From the description of [Letters, 1929-1940] / Alexander Woollcott. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 491398373 American drama critic, journalist, playwright, essayist, and actor. From the description of Alexander Woollcott collection, 1921-[194-]. (Boston Univers...

Borup, George, 1885-1912

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Member of the North Pole expedition led by Robert E. Peary, 1908-1909; assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History Dept. of Geology and Invertebrate Paleontology, 1911-1912. From the description of A tenderfoot with Peary / by George Borup. [1909?-1911?] (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18802706 Borup was a geologist and explorer. He was the brother of Yvette Borup Andrews, the first wife of explorer Roy Chapman Andrews. Borup partici...

Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960.

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Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926

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Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921

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Ornithologist, Curator in the Dept. of Mammalogy and Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1870-1920, 1899-1903 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513490 Ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1868-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510520 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. ...

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

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(Frank) Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), ornithologist, avian paleontologist, and science administrator, was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1945 to 1952. He was born in North Freedom, Wisconsin, the son of Nelson Franklin and Emma Amelia (Woodworth) Wetmore. He developed an early interest in birds and at the age of eight made his first field journal entry--an observation on the pelican recorded on a family vacation to Florida in 1894. His first published paper, "M...

Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886-

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Henry, Nelson B. (Nelson Bollinger), 1883-1969

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Spock, Leslie Erskine, 1900-....

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Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964

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James Paul Chapin (July 9, 1889 – April 5, 1964) was an American ornithologist. Chapin was a former Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. At the age of 19 he took the role of assistant to the American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915). This began his life-long association with that region and established his place as an expert on the birds of the Congo. A graduate of Columbia University, Chapin worked at the Museum from 1905 until his official retirement i...

Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989

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Orientalist, author, educator, and historian; died 1989. From the description of Owen Lattimore papers, 1907-1997 (bulk 1950-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983405 Biographical Note 1900, July 29 Born, Washington, D.C. 1913 1914 Atten...

Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946

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Robert Abram Bartlett (b. August 15, 1875, Brigus, Newfoundland-d. April 28, 1946, New York City), ship captain and Arctic explorer, piloted numerous expeditions to Greenland and locations in the Arctic Circle. He piloted Admiral Peary's vessel Roosevelt during the 1906 attempt to reach the North Pole. Later he was master of schooner Effie M. Morrissey. Beginning in the mid-1920's, he collected zoological specimens for the United States National Museum (USNM) on his many expeditions to the A...

Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978

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W. Douglas Burden was a geologist, naturalist, hunter, filmmaker and author, affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. Burden was a trustee of the AMNH, 1926-1961, chaired a committee on the preparation of homolosine (equal-area projection) maps, and established the AMNH Dept. of Experimental Biology in 1928 (later named the Dept. of Animal Behavior). Burden formed Burden Pictures, Inc., 1928-1931, with ichthyologist Ilia Tolstoy; beginning in 1935, with To...

Shackelford, James B.

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Osborn, Fairfield, 1887-1969

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Zoologist and conservationist. From the description of Papers of Fairfield Osborn, 1924-1969 (bulk 1948-1968). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131073 President, New York Zoological Society. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122613271 Biographical Note 1887, Jan. 15 ...

Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975

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English biologist. From the description of Typed letter signed : London, to Mr. Heineman, 1928 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555836 British biologist, philosopher, and popularizer of science; b. Julian Sorell Huxley. From the description of Papers, 1899-1980. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 86118827 From the description of Julian Sorell Huxley papers, 1899-1980. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 28418189 Jul...

Hill, W. P. T., Capt.

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Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his ex...

Wilkins, George Hubert, Sir, 1888-1958

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Sir George Hubert Wilkins (b. October 31, 1888, Hallett, South Australia-d. November 30, 1958, Framingham, Massachusetts), polar explorer, geographer, photographer, and consultant for the United States Military. He was internationally recognized for his expeditions to the Arctic and Anarctic from 1913 to 1939. Wiklins was the navigator aboard the first airplane to fly over the Arctic Sea (1928); navigator aboard the first airplane to fly over the Antarctica (1933); and led the Nautilus sub...

Roberts, L. B. (Leo Bond)

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Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970

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Harold Elmer Anthony (1890-1970) conducted fieldwork and wrote in the field of mammalogy about Puerto Rico and the Americas. His field work for the United States Department of Agriculture in Montana and the northwestern United States, 1909-1911, is documented in the Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_522_pid_EACP519 ...

Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955

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Warner graduated from Harvard in 1903 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Langdon Warner, 1926-1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069994 These rubbings were presented to Harvard by scholars and collectors Langdon Warner, Lawrence Sickman, Hamilton Bell, Adrian Rübel, and others. Langdon Warner collected many rubbings in north and northwest China during two Fogg Museum-sponsored expeditions in 1923-1924 and 1925, and he donated ot...

Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930)

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Granger, Walter, 1872-1941

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Nelson, Nels C. (Nels Christian), 1875-

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Archaeologist, museum curator. Nelson was Curator of North American Archaeology in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1912-1946. From the description of Papers, 1897-1946, 1911-1946 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511917 ...

Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932

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American mineralogist and gem expert, Vice-President of Tiffany & Co. (1879- ), U.S. Geological Survey special agent (1883-1909), President of the New York Mineralogical Club. From the description of Papers, 1879-1932. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538661 From the description of Papers, 1879-1932 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 41124182 George Frederick Kunz, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D, (1856-1932), was...

Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1918-1919)

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Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Robert Cushman Murphy and his wife, Grace Emiline Barstow Murphy. From the description of Letters, 1964-1971, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873220 Naturalist, scientist and environmentalist. From the description of Papers, [ca.1895-1965], ca.1895-ca.1965 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 156794758 Robert Cushman Murphy was a zoologist, ornithologist, and ocean...

Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969

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James L. Clark's field trip to the Cassiar District of British Columbia to collect a group of Osborn caribous for the Hall of North American Mammals. From the description of British Columbia field photographs, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517529 Naturalist, taxidermist, and explorer at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Report of the Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1947-1948 [...