Folder 1 Owen Collection of Fossil - Ozias, J. W.
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- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 189
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Folder 4 Indiana University, 1887-1892. Much of the correspondence concerns a controversy between the U. S. N. M. and Indiana University over the Owen Collection of Fossils. The bulk of the correspondence is between George Brown Goode and David Starr Jordan.
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 189
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Folder 4 Selachians: Extracts from Richard Owen's Odontography, circa 1867
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7154
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
G. Arthur Cooper Papers
This collection consists of photographs of G. Arthur Cooper and others, including Charles Schuchert, Leonhard Stejneger, Arthur Boucot, Carl Owen Dunbar and Roland Wilbur Brown. Also included is a set of photographs from Robert Cooper, an amateur collector of shells and fossils. Robert Cooper is no relation to G. Arthur …
#28200 1/2 - #29981. Includes USNM file on specimens distributed for study and exchange from 1881-1922, 1922 (#28200 1/2); USNM file on gifts to the United States from the Imaum of Muscat, 1887-1910 (#28518); correspondence regarding the collecting of specimens from the Arizona Fossil Forest, 1907-1910 (#29078); correspondence concerning an expedition to Java by Owen Bryant and William Palmer, 1910 (#29314); USNM file on museum participation at scientific congresses (1883-1910), 1910 (#29917); correspondence with Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., regarding his work on the mammals collected on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1910 (#29981).
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 192
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Fielding B. Meek Papers
The collection consists of correspondence 1849-1876, mostly incoming, concerning specimens and geological observations; notebooks, 1846-1872 and diaries, 1871-1875, resulting from Meek's field work; manuscripts and original plate illustrations; and miscellaneous personal papers, including a catalogue of the Meek library made soon after his death.
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, administrative records regarding collections and the A. Remington Kellogg Library, research notes and proposals, exhibition files, photographs of specimens, and professional activity files. Curators represented in these records include Clayton Edward Ray …
Orestes Hawley St. John Papers
These papers relate to Paleozoic fossil fish and include abstracted articles, specimen notes and notebooks, and original notes for publications of the Illinois Geological Survey.
James Steele Williams Papers
The 1879 act establishing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) declares, "And all collections of rocks, minerals, soil, and fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when …
Frank Spencer Papers
Langham, Ian, 1942-1984
bulk 1970-1999
Frank Spencer was a historian of biological anthropology who began his career as a medical laboratory technician. His papers include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, research files, teaching materials, photographs, and audiotapes. Spencer's research on the Piltdown hoax as well as the Piltdown research of Ian Langham, whose work Spencer continued after his death in 1984, and Spencer's research on the life and career of Aleš Hrdlička for his dissertation are both represented in the collection.
