Letter book, 1888 June 11(?)-1894 Nov. 26.

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Letter book, 1888 June 11(?)-1894 Nov. 26.

Volume contains letterpress copies of William Beutenmüller's outgoing correspondence. Includes index of correspondents, also handwritten. Correspondents include J.M. Aldrich, Homer F. Bassett, Harrison G. Dyar, Henry Edwards, C.H. Fernald, Albert P. Morse, C.R. Osten-Sacken, Charles V. Riley, John B. Smith, Annie T. Slosson and Charles H.T. Townsend.

297 leaves ; 31 cm.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Entomology.

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Eight of the ten specimens depicted were part of the Grote and Robinson Collection, 20,000 specimens of American and European Lepidoptera donated to the Museum by Robinson in 1870. The other two specimens were among the 4,000 specimens collected during Beutenmuller's Expedition to the Black Mountains from June to October 1912, financed by Samuel V. Hoffman. From the description of Entomological museum studio photographs, 1912-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Edwards, Henry, 1830-1891

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Actor, entomologist. From the description of Henry Edwards collection of entomological correspondence, 1854-1891, 1862-1891 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485143 Henry Edwards was an actor and amateur entomologist who amassed a collection of over 250,000 specimens of Lepidoptera, one of the finest in the United States. His total collection, including other insects, numbered close to 300,000 specimens, and was acquired by the American Museum of Natural ...

Slosson, Annie Trumbull, 1838-1926

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Annie Trumbull Slosson, Stonington, Conn., native, widely acclaimed short story author, and amateur entomologist. From the description of Untitled story [Fishin' Jimmy], 1889?. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 58652520 ...

Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895

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

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Townsend, Charles Henry Tyler

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Bassett, Homer F. (Homer Franklin), 1826-1902

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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...

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 ...

Dyar, Harrison G. (Harrison Gray), 1866-1929

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Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929) was honorary Custodian of the National Museum's collection of lepidoptera for more than thirty years; he served largely as an unpaid curator, although he was briefly on the payroll of the Department of Agriculture. A graduate of Columbia University (Ph.D. 1895), he worked on lepidoptera, especially their larvae; larvae of saw flies, larvae of mosquitoes, and bacteria. Around the turn of the century, interest in mosquito-borne diseases attracted his attention; he an...

Morse, Albert P. (Albert Pitts), 1863-1936

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Aldrich, John Merton, 1866-1934

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J.M. Aldrich, entomologist, was custodian of Diptera and associate curator of insects, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), 1919-1934. Charles Willison Johnson, malacologist and entomologist, was principal curator, Boston Society of Natural History, 1903-1932. Frank Eugene Lutz, entomologist, was curator and chairman, Dept. of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, 1921-1943. From the description of Correspondence, 1925 Mar. 31-1925...

Beutenmüller, William 1864-1934

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William Beutenmüller was an American entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera, particularly moths, but an active collector and taxonomist of all orders, including flies, beetles, Orthoptera and gallflies. Beutenmüller came to the American Museum of Natural History in 1888, was curator of the Dept. of Entomology from 1893 to 1908, and associate curator of Lepidoptera, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, from 1909 to 1911. His expeditions to the Black Hills of North Carolina, 1895-1912, resulted in t...