Fur Catch and Big Game Inventory Statistics
These records pertain mostly to fur catch and big game inventory statistics compiled for the Fur Catch in the United States and Big Game Inventory published by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Prior to 1958, Frank G. Ashbrook compiled the statistics for the Fur Catch publication. Since then, the Bird and …
Records
This collection consists of files of Directors Stanley Paul Young, 1958-1959, and Richard Hyde Manville, 1960-1970, primarily concerning the Alaska sea-otter investigations of Karl Walton Kenyon. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, and photographs. Also included are a small amount of records documenting professional activities and publications of Manville. Records pre-dating …
Bird Project Records
This accession consists of correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, research files, and related records documenting bird projects conducted by the National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory.
M. Ralph Browning Papers
M. Ralph Browning worked in the National Museum of Natural History Bird and Mammal Laboratories through the United States Geological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These records pertain to his ornithological cataloging work and research, primarily in Oregon and the northwest United States.
Records
These records include early correspondence of the Bureau of Biological Survey; general files of the Bird and Mammal Labs including correspondence, project reports, annual and quarterly reports, memoranda, material of various staff members and material on the organization, history and policy of the Labs; correspondence from the Bird Section and …
Correspondence
This accession consists of records that document the curatorial, research, and administrative activities of Don E. Wilson, Director, Biodiversity Program (1990-2000). Records created prior to 1990 were accumulated by and transferred with Wilson when he assumed the Directorship in 1990. Most of the early records document his activities while working as a mammalogist …
United States Fish Commission Records
Most of the collection consists of drawings, both pen and ink and pencil, photoengravings and photographs and blueprints of fish, fishermen, fishing gear, nets, traps, seines, fishing vessels both small and large, and fish processing. Some are identified by type, some by location; others lack specific identification. Many carry comments …
M. Ralph Browning Papers
M. Ralph Browning worked in the National Museum of Natural History Bird and Mammal Laboratories through the United States Geological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These records pertain to his ornithological cataloging work and research in Oregon and the northwest United States.
Records
These papers include original logbooks for the Fish Commission vessels Albatross, Fish Hawk, Grampus, Halcyon, Yvonne, and Danglade containing hydrographic and dredging data; transcribed records of some of that data; accession records, transmittal records, lists, and correspondence concerning specimens taken by the Commission; material concerning expositions in which the Commission …
Sammy M. Ray Oral History Interview
The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff …
