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Collected Notes, Lists, and Catalogs on Birds

Creators:: National Museum of Natural History
Dates:: 1839, 1849-1851, 1855-1987
Size:: 4.94 cu. ft. (8 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7215
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection contains manuscript notes, lists, and catalogs concerning bird specimens. The catalogs are the primary documentation for many of the specimens of the Division of Birds. Although they vary in content, as a general rule they contain specimen-related data including catalogs of specimens collected, dates, localities, tag numbers, ...

James Templeman Brown Papers

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Creators:: Brown, James Templeman
Dates:: circa 1883-1884
Size:: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7193
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

The papers consist of a manuscript concerning the various boats, harpoons, cutting tools, and other instruments used by the United States whaling fleets, circa 1883.

George Dimmock Papers

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Creators:: Dimmock, George 1852-1930
Dates:: circa 1878-1915
Size:: 2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7195
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

In 1878 Dimmock began keeping a series of notebooks on his larval studies and his collections. Later he began calling the series Entomological Notes. The notebooks contained observations, notes on collecting localities, and illustrations, many in color. The notebooks are arranged numerically by specimen number. An index to the notebooks i...

Albert Charles Peale Papers

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Creators:: Peale, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1849-1914
Dates:: circa 1891
Size:: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7208
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers consist of Peale's manuscript biography and a bibliography of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden which apparently was meant to be published as a Bulletin of the United States National Museum, but never was.

Carl Barus Papers

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Creators:: Barus, Carl, 1856-1935
Dates:: 1891, 1893
Size:: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7214
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers consist of a typescript of the article prepared by Barus and a copy of an 1891 report by the Great Britain Board of Trade Committee on the subject.

Daniel William Coquillet Papers

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Creators:: Coquillett, D. W. (Daniel William), 1856-1911
Dates:: 1885-1911 and undated
Size:: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7164
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

R. Edward Earll Manuscript

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Creators:: Earll, R. Edward, 1853-1896
Dates:: circa 1880
Size:: 1 folder.
Collection ID:: Record Unit 7196
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection consists of a manuscript of Statistical Review of the Vessel Fisheries of the United States in 1880, by R. Edward Earll. The manuscript was probably prepared by Earll in connection with his work on the United States Census of 1880.