Pratt Museum of Natural History. Records, 1866-2000
11 archive boxes, 1 half archives box, 1 records storage box, 1 oversize flat file (7 linear ft.)
Terms of Access and Use:
In general, there is no restriction on access to the Pratt Museum Records for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the Records should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyright.
The Pratt Museum of Natural History opened in the 1940s to house Amherst College's natural history collections after the renovation of the Pratt Gymnasium. (The gymnasium, built in 1883, had been named after its donor, Charles M. Pratt, AC 1879.) Until that time, most of the collections had been held in Webster Hall, and before that in various scientific "cabinets" in various locations on campus. The Pratt Museum's holdings, collected since the 1820s from around the world and comprising about 80,000 objects with historic as well as scientific importance, included vertebrate and invertebrate skeletons and fossils, the college's famous collection of dinosaur tracks (notable for being the world's largest), minerals, geologic phenomena, and anthropological artifacts. Most of the displays in the Pratt Museum were designed and constructed by Professor George Bain and his associates.
Many of the Pratt Museum's skeletons resulted from expeditions led by Professor Frederic Loomis (AC 1896), a vertebrate paleontologist. Loomis came to Amherst in 1899 and taught biology, comparative, mineralogy and geology. He took Amherst students on over 18 digs in the U.S. and South America. Loomis died at a dig in Alaska in 1937.
In 2006, the Pratt Museum moved with the department of Geology to a new building on the east slope of Barrett Hill.
Reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, field notebooks and catalogues related to the various natural history collections formerly held in the Pratt Museum, as well as expeditionary field work undertaken to develop those collections. Also includes some records of the Amherst College department of Geology.
This collection is organized into five series:
In general, there is no restriction on access to the Pratt Museum Records for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the Records should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyright.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in Pratt Museum of Natural History Records [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.
Accession Nos. 79-087; 2003-269; 2004-030; 2004-057; 2010-010
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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002-5000 Phone: (413) 542-2299 Fax: (413) 542-2692 Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives |
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Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS
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Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS is arranged by subject and contains reports to the Board of Trustees by B.K. Emerson; letters from the Smithsonian Institution to B.K. Emerson; miscellaneous papers, correspondence, reports, and records of the Visiting Committee; reports, reading lists, examinations, and class notes from the Geology Department; newspaper clippings concerning the Geology Department; field notebooks; and articles. |
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Reports to the Board of Trustees by B.K. Emerson
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1876-1907
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Box 1: folder 1
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Plans and needs for Geology Dept. by B.K. Emerson
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 2
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Letters from Smithsonian Institution to B.K. Emerson
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1874
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Box 1: folder 3
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Edward Hitchcock (President) - bill for minerals
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1857
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Box 1: folder 4
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Program of the Amherst meeting of the Geological Society of America
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1921
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Box 1: folder 5
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Visiting committee - miscellaneous papers
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1927-30
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Box 1: folder 6
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Visiting committee - correspondence and records
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1928-29
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Box 1: folder 7
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Visiting committee - correspondence and report
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1930
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Box 1: folder 8
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Visiting committee - correspondence and report
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1931
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Box 1: folder 9
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Visiting committee - miscellaneous correspondence
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1932-35
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Box 1: folder 10
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Visiting committee - miscellaneous correspondence
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1947-48
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Box 1: folder 11
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Geology 1 - Field trip
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1937-38
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Box 1: folder 12
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Geology 3 - Reading lists
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 13
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Geology 4 - Examination
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 14
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Geology 7 - Reading lists
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 15
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References for final thesis
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 16
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Comprehensive examination
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1970
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Box 1: folder 17
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Newspaper clippings concerning Geology Department
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 18
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Letter to B.K. Emerson concerning mines
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1894
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Box 2: folder 1
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Field notebooks (3) - lists of specimens collected; drawings of sections of mesozoic
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 2
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Notebooks (2) - lecture notes of J.W. Eggleston (AC 1898); field record of "Sawyer's Island first digging," a paleo-Indian site. Also includes other sites: White Island, Flagg Island, Seward's Island, Calf Island, Horse Island, N & S Harpswell, Winter Harbor
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[c.1898?]
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Box 2: folder 3
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Das Kutschelied auf der Seelenwanderung, by Wilhelm Ehrenthal, Leipzig, pamphlet in German
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1871
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Box 2: folder 4
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"The Geological Expedition" (expedition to Montana and Wyoming): pages from Amherst Graduate's Quarterly
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1929 Nov
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Box 2: folder 5
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"The Geological and Mineralogical Collections of Amherst College," by B.K. Emerson: photocopies copies of a two-part article from Amherst Graduate's Quarterly
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1915-1916
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Box 2: folder 6
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X-ref: tape recording of Geology conference at Amherst by Dr. Richard Foose -- original in Audio Visual Collection
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1967 Oct
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Box 2: folder 7
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Contributions to the Geology of the Island of Tobago West, Indies, Vol II, Department of Geology, Amherst College (expedition led by Dr. Richard Foose)
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1971 Mar
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Box 2: folder 8
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18 miscellaneous letters and documents received in 2004 and 2010 from Pratt Museum after move to new building (#2010-010). [See the following entries]
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1850-1916
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Talcott Williams (AC 1873, trustee 1909-1919, journalist) to [Tip?], found with Burgess Shale fossil specimens
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1915 Sep 20
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Nahum Gould to Edward Hitchcock, describing fossils and rocks Gould has sent from Illinois to Amherst. Eight specimens of Ordovician cephalopods in collection may have been sent in this shipment.
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1870 Aug
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Charles Schuchert (Yale Peabody curator) to B.K. Emerson, referencing Charles Francis Hall Arctic Expedition of 1865, ostracods, and "Triassic Unio."
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1914 May 11
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Box 2: folder 9
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"Abstract from a letter written by Dr. R.S. Bassler to Prof. Schuchert June 9, 1914". Refers to Burgess Shale (? "Marella splendens described by Mr. Walcott") and ostracods. On verso, in pencil: "2 new species put in show collection BKE 1914".
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1914
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Ashton E. Hemphill (Holyoke, MA; may have been a member of American Orthnithologists Union) to B.K. Emerson, inquiring about a sample of fossil shells from Baalbek, Lebanon.
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1914 Aug 19
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Box 2: folder 9
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Undated document (possibly portion of a letter), "American Agricultural Chemical Co." written in pencil at top of one side. Refers to shark teeth, fossil bones and shells.
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Lloyd Bates (AC 1911) to B.K. Emerson, alerting him to a shipment of fossils he found. Letter found associated with specimen C.E. 129 (crinoid stems), which lists Bates as collector.
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1914 Nov 24
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Mignon Talbot (professor of Geology and Geography at Mount Holyoke College, 1904-1935; noted female paleontologist who found the only fossil of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis, a cast of which is held in Museum of Natural History), to B.K. Emerson; found in association with specimen T.A. 7.
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1916 Jan 28
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Box 2: folder 9
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Document (possibly portion of letter), [Hanover?], New Hampshire. Refers to C. H. Hitchcock, Woods Cabinet, and specimens from Square Lake, Maine. Found in association with specimen D.A. 31 (may have been folded and used as label for this specimen).
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1871 May 16
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Box 2: folder 9
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3-page document, the first two pages of which are a letter, H.T. Fernald (entomologist at Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, MA - now part of UMass, Amherst) to B.K. Emerson. In this letter Fernald attempts to characterize organisms in fossils that Emerson sent to him. Third page appears to be a portion of a letter from Rufus M. Bagg, Jr. (geologist or paleontologist? Possibly at University of Illinois) to B.K. Emerson, in which Bagg refers Emerson to other geologists for assistance. The document is unusual in that the last paragraph of the letter was cut from another piece of paper and was adhered onto the rest of the letter. There is also a handwritten note (which refers to Bagg and "egg capsules perhaps of a spider") at the bottom of the page signed "B.K.E, Nov (?) 1910."
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1909 Jan 30
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, [J. Mansfield?] to Professor (Charles) Shepard, inquiring if Shepard wants to sell his house. Found in association with specimen O.A. 89.
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1862 Jul 5
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Benjamin L. Miller (Lehigh University, Dept. of Geology) to B.K. Emerson, regarding Cryptozoon proliferum. Found in association with specimen Cm.C. 2.
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1903 Oct 6
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Eben. (Ebenezer?) Moseley, [Newburyport, Mass.?] to Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, referring to "shells" and "bed of shells". Found in association with specimen Pl.L. 1.
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1850 Mar 29
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Box 2: folder 9
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"List of the Minerals" that is likely part of a letter from B. Schneider to Rev. Dr. (Edward) Hitchcock. The document lists 13 items (rocks/shells) collected in Syria and surrounding areas. No. 2 reads "Are from the gates of Syria, close by the [road?] where Alexander & his army must have passed." Found in association with specimen M.L. 11.
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, Robert Wells (AC 1912) to Professor Whipple, , describing fossil. Found in association with specimen K.L. 177A.
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1914 Jan 14
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter, J.M. Clarke (New York state geologist, New York State Museum, Albany) to B.K. Emerson, describing brachiopod fossils. Found in association with uncataloged brachiopods stored in museum drawer IP-120.
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1891 May 14
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Box 2: folder 9
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Five-page document, the first page of which is a letter dated July 13 (no year) from Prof. Frederick Loomis to Dwight Blaney (avocational malacologist, painter, and subject of paintings by John Singer Sargent), describing Pleistocene shells found on their expedition to Mount Desert Island, Maine. The next three pages are a letter dated Sept. 19, 1915 from Blaney to Loomis with more about the shells, including a two-page listing of 24 specimens. The last page is a photocopy of the title page of a reprint of their article "A Pleistocene Locality on Mount Desert Island," published in Am. J. Sci. November 1916. Found in association with uncataloged fossils in museum drawer IP-525.
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ca. 1915-1916
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Box 2: folder 9
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Ten pages of documents (some double-sided) that appear to be student papers or exams, many attempting to identify fossils. Found in association with uncataloged fossils in Pratt Museum drawer 5b-1.
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 9
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Letter: Wilson Blain, Willamette Falls, Oregon, to Prof. Edward Hitchcock, regarding rock samples; includes 2 photographs
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1850 Jun 20
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Box 2: folder 10
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Charles H. Hitchcock - correspondence and publications
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1906-1911
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Box 2: folder 11
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Joel [Lindsley?], Washington, DC, to John M. Tyler, regarding archaeology collection
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1909
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Box 2: folder 12
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Rufus B. Tobey (AC 1877) to "Dear Professor"
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1916 Jul 26
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Box 2: folder 13
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Correspondence between Julius W. Eggleston, Cuttingsville, Vt. and W.W. Robinette (Dona, Va.) regarding fossils
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1928
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Box 2: folder 14
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Sargent Child (Ac 1924) - note regarding item(s) in the ethnology collection from Orinoco River
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ca. 1930
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Box 2: folder 15
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H.H. Nininger, Nininger Laboratory (Denver, Colo.) to faculty in the Amherst College department of geology
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1935-1941
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Box 2: folder 16
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Miscellaneous correspondence re: minerals
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1876-1972
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Box 12: folder 10
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Section 2: EXPEDITIONS
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Section 2: EXPEDITIONS contains correspondence, negatives, diaries, specimen lists, expense accounts and reports about various expeditions. This section is arranged by date and expedition. |
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Expedition to Patagonia - correspondence
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 1
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Expedition to Patagonia - books of negatives, Vol. 1 & 2
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 2
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Expedition to Patagonia - book of negatives, Vol. 3
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 3
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Expedition to Patagonia - two diaries compiled by F.B. Loomis (one diary contains class notes)
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 4
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Expedition to Patagonia - map
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 5
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Expedition to Patagonia - specimen list
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1911-12
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Box 3: folder 6
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Expedition to Nebraska and Colorado - notebook containing expense account, specimen list, and station log of the Holyoke Range
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1919
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Box 3: folder 7
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Expedition to Wyoming - "Indian Quarry and Shop Site, Converse County, Wyo." (1 exhibition panel with photographs)
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1907-1908
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Map case 6, drawer 7
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Expedition to Colorado and Wyoming - notebook containing expense account, specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1920
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Box 4: folder 1
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Expedition to Wyoming - notebook containing expense account, specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1922
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Box 4: folder 2
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Expedition to Wyoming - report of expedition (printed), notebook containing specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1927
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Box 4: folder 3
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Expedition to Wyoming - report of expedition (printed - 45 copies)
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1927
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Box 4: folder 4
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Expedition to Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota - notebook containing expense account, specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1929
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Box 4: folder 5
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Expedition to Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota - report of expedition (printed - 45 copies), notebook containing expense account, specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1931
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Box 4: folder 6
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Expedition to [unknown] - notebook containing expense account, specimen list, compiled by F.B. Loomis
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1934
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Box 4: folder 7
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Edwin Hastings (AC 1938) field notes from expedition to Texas
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1939-2003
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Box 4: folder 7a
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Section 3: PHOTOGRAPHS
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Section 3: PHOTOGRAPHS contains photographs of expeditions, postcards with pictures of specimens and sites of expeditions, pictures of skeletons, family pictures [possibly Loomis family], and negatives. Materials are arranged by subject. |
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Loomis expedition to Melbourne, Florida
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 8
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Miscellaneous pictures [Patagonia?]
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 9
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Miscellaneous pictures [expedition?]
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 1
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Postcards with pictures of specimens and sites of expeditions
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 2
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Miscellaneous pictures [Scott's Bluff, Nebraska?]
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 3
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Skeletons of mammals, including Canis dirus, Ursus spelaeus and others
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 4
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Miscellaneous pictures - skeletons
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 5-6
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Skeletons showing the growth of the horse in the last six million years
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 7
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Photographs and drawings of horse skeletons
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 8
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Seneca Mastodon
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 9
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Family pictures [possibly Loomis family?]
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 1
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Negatives (unidentified)
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 2
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Meteorites
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 1
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Exhibition photographs
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 6
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Fossil and living vertebrates (glass plates) and unidentified exhibition photographs (glass plate negatives)
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 11
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Portrait of paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope
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ca. 1880
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Box 12: folder 12
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Section 4: MATERIALS CONCERNING PRATT MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Section 4: MATERIALS CONCERNING PRATT MUSEUM COLLECTION includes correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, list of Liberian curios from O.F. Cook, catalogues and exhibit announcements, pictures, and drawings of species. Material is arranged by subject. |
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History of the Pratt Museum (TS fragment, pp. 1-2 missing)
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 7
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Correspondence concerning collections
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 3
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Correspondence from Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) to Horatio N. Rust, re: Indian relics and fossil bones (19 letters, photocopies; originals at Huntington Library, NO PHOTOCOPYING)
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1866-1881
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Box 6: folder 3A
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"Dr. Hitchcock and the Amherst Indian Collection" by F.B. Loomis, reprint from Amherst Graduate's Quarterly
See Also: Catalogue of New England Indian Relics in the Gilbert Museum at Amherst College and Specimens of New England Indian Relics in the Gilbert Museum at Amherst College |
1915 Jun
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Box 6: folder 4
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Newspaper clippings concerning Gilbert Collection of Indian Relics
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 5
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Gilbert Collection of Indian Relics - list of specimens, Vol. 1, 2 & 3
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 6
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Specimens of New England Indian Relics in the Gilbert Museum at Amherst College (3 copies)
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1903
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Box 6: folder 7
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Catalogue of New England Indian Relics in the Gilbert Museum at Amherst College, 2nd ed. (2 copies)
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1904
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Box 6: folder 8
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Indian Relics Collection - "Explorations of the Baum Pre-historic Village Site" by William C. Mills, reprint from the Ohio Archeological and Historical Qtly, Vol XV, No. 1
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1906
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Box 6: folder 9
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American Indian Art - exhibition announcement (2 catalogues)
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1974
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Box 6: folder 9A
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Photographs of Indian Relics; Dighton Rock information
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 10
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List of Liberian curios from O.F. Cook
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 11
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Art of the Sepik River - catalogue and exhibit announcement
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1974
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Box 6: folder 12
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Correspondence concerning meteorites
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1872-1912
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Box 7: folder 1-1a
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Meteorites
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ca. 1880-1972
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Box 12: folder 2
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Publications on meteorites
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1837-1903
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Box 12: folder 3
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Catalogues and other printed matter on the meteorite collections of C.U. Shepard at Amherst College
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1851-1965
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Box 12: folder 4-5
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Meteorite Collection of Charles Upham Shepard - photographs and catalogue
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 2
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Correspondence concerning minerals
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 3
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Manuscript catalogue of mineralogical cabinet and various lists of specimens
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1866 Jun
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Box 7: folder 4
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"The Geological and Mineralogical Collections of Amherst College" - mineralogical collection correspondence, catalogue and manuscript of article by B.K. Emerson
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 5
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Kunz Collection and Spang Collection, minerals - correspondence
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 6
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Fire and Shepard mineral collection, minerals - correspondence
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 7
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Fossil Footprints Collection - catalogue, photographs, newspaper clippings
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 8
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Natural History Collection - newspaper clippings, photographs
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 9
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"Notice of Collections in Natural History Preserved in the Shepard Cabinet at Amherst College" by Charles Upham Shepard (4 copies)
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 10
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Adams Shell Collection - history of specimens and shells
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 11
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"Development of the Amherst College Mineral Collection" by Carl A. Francis
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 12
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"The History of the Edward B. Underhill Collection..."
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2000
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Box 7: folder 13
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Pictures and drawings - Agriochoeridae
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 1
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Drawings - Sheep and goats
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 2
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Drawings - Leptauchenia decora
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 3
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Drawings - Limnenetes
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 4
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Drawings - Backs of skulls
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 5
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Drawings - Pronomotherium
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 6
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Drawings - Merycochoerus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 7
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Drawings - Oreodonts
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 8
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Drawings - Mesoreodon, Merycoides
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 9
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Drawings - Merychyus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 10
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Charts - Oreodonts
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 11
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Drawings - Promeyachoerus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 12
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"A Study in the Variation in Oligocene Oreodons" drawings, typed manuscript by Boardman Bump
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[c.1930]
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Box 8: folder 13
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Drawings - Deer
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 14
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Drawings - Licholeptus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 15
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Drawings - Eporeodon, Eucrotaphus, Bathygenus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 16
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Drawings - Bovidae
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 17
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Drawings - Gazelles
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 18
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Drawings - Phenacucodus
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 19
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Drawings - Mastodon dentition
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 20
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Drawings - Miscellaneous
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n.d.
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Box 8A: folder 1
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Miscellaneous notes
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n.d.
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Box 8A: folder 2
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Listing of slides numbered 1 through 1212
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n.d.
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Box 8A: folder 3
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Lists of mineral, fossil, and paleontological specimens
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1863-1905 and n.d.
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Box 12: folder 8
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Fossil sketches and plant specimen
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 9
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Section 5: NOTEBOOKS AND CATALOGUES
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Section 5: NOTEBOOKS AND CATALOGUES contains catalogues of various collections, and miscellaneous field notebooks. |
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"Catalogue of Professor Hovey's Shells" by C.B. Adams
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n.d.
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Box 9: folder 1
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Catalogue of shells in Appleton Cabinet (2 vols.)
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1877
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Box 9: folder 2
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List of specimens of shells (3 vols.)
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n.d.
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Box 9: folder 3
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Catalogue of sponges and anthozoa by Professor J.M. Tyler
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1882
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Box 9: folder 4
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"Catalogue of Amherst College Zoological Collections" by Edward Hitchcock and Edward Hitchcock, Jr. (AC 1849)
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1874
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Box 9: folder 5
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"Catalogue of Rocks of the United States"
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n.d.
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Box 10: folder 1
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Catalogue of alabasters, marbles, pophyries, etc. in the Wood Cabinet obtained by Professor Hovey
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n.d.
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Box 10: folder 2
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"Catalogue of Simple Minerals" by Edward Hitchcock, Jr. (AC 1849)
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n.d.
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Box 10: folder 3
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"Catalogue of American Geological Cabinet" by [B.K. Emerson?]
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1862
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Box 10: folder 4
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"Catalogue of Rocks and Fossils from New England" [by Edward Hitchcock?]
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n.d.
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Box 10: folder 5
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Miscellaneous notebooks on minerals (3)
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n.d.
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Box 10: folder 6
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"Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Footmarks in the Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College," Books 1 & 2 by Edward Hitchcock, Jr. (AC 1849). Also includes footprint catalogue data added by B. K. Emerson (1913)
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1865-1913
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Box 10: folder 7
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"Catalogue of the fossil footmarks collected and arranged by Edward Hitchcock in the new cabinet of Amherst College"
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1848
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Box 10: folder 8
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"Catalogue of North American Plants in Amherst College Herbarium"; "Catalogue of the Flora Americana in Herbarium Amherst"
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 1
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"Catalogue of the German Collection" - insects
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 2
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Insects of Great Britain
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 3
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"Insects of New England, Etc. in My Cabinet" and "Genera of Coleopterous Insects in the Cabinet of Amherst College" by C.B. Adams
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 4
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"Father's Geology Collection [by Edward Hitchcock, Jr. (AC 1849)?] - photocopy of notebook
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 5
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Handwritten catalogue of rocks and minerals chiefly from Asia and sent by America Missionaries
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 6
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Catalogue of meteorites at Amherst College
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n.d.
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Box 11: folder 7
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"Notes on the microscopes belonging to the college" by B.K. Emerson
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1876
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Box 12: folder 13
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"Catalogue of the Economic Collection from Germany - 500 Specimens"
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1840
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Box 12: folder 14
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"Catalogue of the Museum sized Cabinet of Minerals"
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1887
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Box 12: folder 15
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"Blue labels" (catalog of mineral specimens)
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 16
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"Yellow labels"
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 17
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"Appendix to 2nd [illegible] collection in Drawer" by C.U. Shepard
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1882
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Box 12: folder 18
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Notebook of C.U. Shepard
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1867
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Box 12: folder 19
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Minerals listing
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 20
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"Specimens on Rutili" by C.U. Shepard
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 21
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Notebook kept by Harold Ladd Smith (AC 1909) of geology field trips
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1909
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Box 12: folder 22
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Field notebooks of J.W. Eggleston (AC 1898)
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ca. 1905-1909
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Box 12: folder 23
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Geology notebook of A.F. Conant, Cambridge, Mass.
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1905
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Box 12: folder 24
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Partial map of Argentina
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n.d.
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Box 12: folder 25
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Field notebook (Belchertown, Mass.) of W.S. Allen (AC 1900)
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ca. 1900
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Box 12: folder 26
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C. W. Fearing (AC 1875): Catalogue of the Mineral Cabinet. One leather-bound notebook. Unknown whether it describes Fearing's own mineral collection, and if so whether it was later donated to Amherst College (and probably destroyed in fire); or the Amherst College mineral collection (though its numbers do not correspond to numbers in current mineral collection database) [#2011-068]
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ca. 1875
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Box 12: folder 27
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