Photograph Collection
This photograph collection was maintained by the Department of Mineral Sciences and its predecessor, the Department of Geology. It includes photographs of curators and other departmental staff members, donors to the national collection of minerals and gems, geologists, paleontologists, mineralogists, and gemologists. Paul E. Desautels, William F. Foshag, Edward P …
Charles Upham Shepard Papers
This collection consists primarily of correspondence with mineralogists., collectors, and museums concerning Shepard's research on meteorites and the acquisition of specimens for his collection. Also included are notebooks, scrapbooks, catalogues, and lectures of Shepard; specimen lists; and newspaper clippings collected by Shepard mostly concerning meteorites. A small amount of correspondence …
Arthur R. Allen Papers
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Website Records
This accession consists of the website for the Department of Mineral Sciences as it existed on May 23, 2013. The website includes information about research, collections, exhibitions, seminars, facilities, and staff. In addition, it includes references to standards and the newsletter, "NMNH Geoscience." Materials are in electronic format.
Website Records
This accession consists of the website for the Department of Mineral Sciences as it existed on February 14, 2012. The website includes information about research, collections, exhibitions, seminars, facilities, and staff. In addition, it includes references to standards and the newsletter, "NMNH Geoscience." Materials are in electronic format.
Brian Harold Mason Papers
These are the papers of Brian Harold Mason (1917-2009), Curator, Meteorites Division, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason's research focused on the mineralogy and petrology of meteorites and cosmochemistry. Materials include correspondence, autobiographical information, field notebooks, research files and materials related to this biographical research on Victor …
Brian Harold Mason Papers
These are the papers of Brian Harold Mason, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason curates and classifies the more than 700 meteorites recovered each year from Antarctica under a joint Smithsonian-National Aeronautics and Space Administration-National Science Foundation. His research focuses on the mineralogy and petrology of meteorites …
Brian Harold Mason Papers
This accession consists of the papers of Brian Harold Mason, Curator Emeritus, Meteorites Division, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason curates and classifies the more than 700 meteorites recovered each year from Antarctica under a joint Smithsonian-National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-National Science Foundation program. His …
Website Records
This accession consists of three departmental websites as they existed in 2007. All were replaced by redesigned websites during the spring and summer of 2007. It is unknown when any of the three websites were first made available to the public. The Department of Invertebrate Zoology website features information about staff research …
Carl W. Mitman Papers
Almost all of the papers in this collection deal with Carl Weaver Mitman's role as chairman of the Smithsonian War Committee. Loyal B. Aldrich, William N. Fenton, Herbert Friedmann, and Webster P. True also served on the committee. Minutes of the committee's meetings, correspondence and notes document the committee's projects …
