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National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals
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1934-1939, 1956-2017
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26.99 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 blueprint storage box) (4 16x20 boxes) (3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-100
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of curator emeritus Richard W. Thorington (1937-2017), who specialized in systematics, evolution, anatomy, and functional morphology in mammals, especially of primates and squirrels. The records primarily document Thorington's curatorial activities in the Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natu...
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Waldo L. Schmitt Papers
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Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977.
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1907-1978
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79.56 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (121 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (4 12x17 boxes) (60 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 film boxes) (oversize material)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7231
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career, 1907-1977. They also illustrate, to a lesser degree, his personal life. Particularly well represented in the papers is material concerning Schmitt's carcinological research, his curatorial and administrative careers at the United States Nat...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology
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1962-2005
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-555
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of administrative subject files primarily documenting the operation of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. Records predating the establishment of the Department in 1964 were created by its predecessor, the Department of Zoology. Subjects include collections management, strategic planning, projects, committees, and ...
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Society of Systematic Zoology
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1947-1975
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26 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (30 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7226
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include membership files, administrative files, reports, fiscal records, records related to the Journal of Systematic Zoology and copies of other SSZ publications, records related to the annual meetings, the Pacific Section of SSZ records, files on scientific societies, and the records of the Summer Institute in Systematics.
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Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, interviewee
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1980-1982
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3 audiotapes (Reference copies). 6 digital .mp3 files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9526
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives 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. Program ...
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National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity Program
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1989-1999
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-063
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the professional activities and official travel of the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Biodiversity Program, Don E. Wilson, 1990-2000. The bulk of the material relates to Wilson's participation in meetings regarding bat research. Records created prior to 1990 were created and transferred...
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Rosewater, Joseph, 1928-1985
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1928-1985
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7413
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, and related materials documenting Rosewater's curatorial career at the USNM; malacological research; collecting expeditions, especially a trip to Eniwetok Atoll, 1963, the Te Vega Expedition to Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1963, and the Pele Expedition to Indon...
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Rogick, Mary Dora, 1906-1964
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circa 1934-1964
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7408
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of classroom and laboratory notes, lists, and a bibliographic card index from Rogick's research on Bryozoa; biographical information on Rogick; and photographs of Rogick and colleagues, including Ray S. Bassler and Raymond Carroll Osburn.
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McClendon, J. F. (Jesse Francis), b. 1880
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circa 1930s
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10 Prints (silver gelatin)
33 Postcards (offset lithograph, photogravure, and collotype)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.102
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National Anthropological Archives
Album of photographs documenting Ainu people, ceremonies, religious customs, fishing, hunting, and other activities. J. F. McClendon evidently assembled the material in order to try to show that Native Americans and Ainu people were not directly related. The collection includes commercial postcards published in Japanese and English and original pho...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology
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1879, 1961-2001, 2014
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3.03 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-333
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials created by emeritus research zoologist, Clyde F. E. Roper. Roper began his career at the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, in 1966 and quickly became the world's foremost authority on Architeuthis - the giant squid. Some of these records predate his work at the ...