Papers, 1883-1942.

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Papers, 1883-1942.

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Correspondence relates chiefly to "The Auk" and to investigations into the stomachs of birds carried on by the United States Biological Survey. Correspondents include: Francis V. Greene, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, Edgar A. Mearns, Clinton H. Merriam, and Frank R. Rathbun. Also includes the Biological Society of Washington and the American Ornithologists' Union. The autograph collection was assembled principally from signatures on mailing instructions for "The Auk" and on envelopes addressed to McAtee and others.

384 items : (168 letters and 216 autographs).

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Rathbun, Frank F.

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Biological society of Washington

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Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930

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Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850-1930) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 3, 1850. Henshaw wanted to go to Harvard, but due to his health he was unable to go. He was invited to go on a voyage to the southern coast of Louisiana. That was where he began his career as a naturalist. He traveled to many places and became particularly interested in birds. He collected many unknown bird species in Arizona and made valuable observations. In 1880, he worked as an ethnologist at the Bureau of Ame...

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

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Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916) was an army surgeon and field naturalist. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna around his home in Highland Falls, New York. Mearns was educated at Donald Highland Institute, Highland Falls, and in 1881 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In 1883, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the Army and assigned to duty at Fort Verde, Arizona. He was transferred to Fort ...

McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962

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Biologist and ornithologist. From the description of Papers of W. L. McAtee, 1803-1963 (bulk 1900-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77708968 Waldo Lee McAtee was a principal biologist and technical adviser at the Bureau of Biological Survey, US Dept. of Agriculture. From the description of Pamphlets, 1931-1956. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38515019 W. L. McAtee was a zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist. ...

Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921

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General, historian, and engineer. From the description of Letters, 1876-1914. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36929250 Francis Vinton Greene was born on 27 June 1850. He graduated from West Point in 1870 and served as second lieutenant of artillery until 1872, when he transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1874 and served as military attache to the U.S. Legation in Russia from 1877-1878. He was put in charge of public wor...

United States. Bureau of Biological Survey

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American Ornithologists' Union

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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...