C. Hart Merriam papers, 1854-1902, 1869-1887 (bulk).

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C. Hart Merriam papers, 1854-1902, 1869-1887 (bulk).

Observations of bird life in New York State; correspondence with other ornithologists, including Franklin Root Rathbun, who wrote a REVISED LIST OF BIRDS IN CENTRAL NEW YORK, and W. B. Barrows of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York.

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Barrows, W. B.

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Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

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C. Hart Merriam was a biologist who work for the Smithsonian Institution from 1910-1939. Merriam was born December 5, 1855 in New York City. His childhood was spent in Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. Merriam’s father introduced him to Prof. Spencer Baird who attached the seventeen year old Merriam to a government expedition, the Hayden Survey. He spent a summer collecting birds and eggs in the Yellowstone region. That year, he attended college, first at the Pingry Military School in Elizab...

Rathbun, Franklin Root.

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