Papers of C. Hart Merriam, 1873-1938.

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Papers of C. Hart Merriam, 1873-1938.

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Correspondence, writings, journals, bibliographies, maps, subject files and other papers. Includes 125 volumes of his journals ( 1873-1938), numerous sets of Indian vocabularies, with accompanying large-scale manuscript maps showing the distribution of all known Indian tribes in California and Nevada, home journals (1896-1938), Adirondack notes, and index to his journals. Also includes material relating to his involvement with the Washington Academy of Sciences, the American Ornithologists' Union, the U.S. Bering Sea Commission and the Harriman Alaska Expedition.

5,000 items.71 containers plus 1 oversize.10 microfilm reels.

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American Ornithologists' Union

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Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration

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Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)

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Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899

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The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Photograph, [ca. 1899]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532497 The Expedition was financed by Edward Henry Harriman as a combination pleasure cruise and scientific expedition from May to August 1899. From the description of Arctic field photographs, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517798 Originally proposed as a hunting expedition, Edward Harriman tr...

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...