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SIA RU007231, Schmitt, Waldo L (Waldo Lasalle) 1887-1977, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978
Summary
- Creator:
- Schmitt, Waldo L (Waldo Lasalle) 1887-1977
- Title:
- Waldo LaSalle Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978
- Dates:
- 1907, 1907-1978
- Notes:
- Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was born in Washington, D.C. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna of the District and nearby Maryland. He received the B.S. degree from George Washington University in 1913, the M.A. degree from the University of California in 1916, and his Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1922. In 1948, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Southern California
- Schmitt began his career in government service in 1907 as an Aid in Economic Botany for the United States Department of Agriculture. He served in that position until 1910 when he was appointed Aid in the Division of Marine Invertebrates of the United States National Museum (USNM). At the USNM, he became acquainted with Mary Jane Rathbun and began to develop his interest in the study of crustacea. From 1911 to 1914, Schmitt served on the staff of the United States Bureau of Fisheries as Scientific Assistant and Naturalist aboard the Albatross during its cruises along the west coast of America and Alaska. Crustacean collections made on the Albatross surveys provided the material for Schmitt's M.A. thesis, THE MARINE DECAPOD CRUSTACEA OF CALIFORNIA. In 1915, Schmitt returned to the United States National Museum as Assistant Curator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates. From 1915 to 1920, he also served as part-time instructor of Zoology at George Washington University. In 1920, Schmitt was named Curator of the Division of Marine Invertebrates and remained in that capacity until 1943 when he was appointed Head Curator of the Department of Biology. The Department of Biology was split into the Departments of Zoology and Botany in 1947, with Schmitt as Head Curator of Zoology. Upon his retirement in 1957, Schmitt was named Honorary Research Associate and continued his association with the Smithsonian Institution until his death on August 5, 1977
- Schmitt participated in many biological expeditions and field trips during his career. Under the auspices of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, he spent the summer of 1918 studying the life history of the spiny lobster at the Scripps Institution, La Jolla, California. During the summers of 1924 and 1925, Schmitt was at the Carnegie Institution's Marine Laboratory at Tortugas, Florida, surveying the crustacean fauna of the area, identifying crustaceans found in the stomachs of fishes, and taking underwater photographs. He also participated in field work at Tortugas in the summers from 1930 to 1932. In 1925, Schmitt was awarded the Smithsonian's Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAUNA OF COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES. The scholarship enabled him to collect marine invertebrates along the east coast of South America from August to December, 1925, and on the west coast from August 1926 to May 1927
- During the years 1933 to 1935, Schmitt was a member of three expeditions to the Galapagos Islands sponsored by G. Allan Hancock of Los Angeles, California. While on these trips, Schmitt became acquainted with a group of utopian colonists on Florena Island in the Galapagos, who attracted considerable attention in the world press by their intrigues and mysterious behavior. As a guest of G. Huntington Hartford, he explored and collected in the West Indies on the Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition of 1937. In 1938, Schmitt was chosen by the White House to accompany President Franklin D. Roosevelt as naturalist on the presidential cruise to Clipperton, Cocos, and the Galapagos Islands. In 1939, Schmitt was a member of the Hancock South America Expedition, and he served as the biologist in charge of field operations on the first United States Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska King Crab Investigation in 1940. During 1941 and 1942, Schmitt spent time on special detail with the United States Navy investigating the possibility of establishing a biological station in the Galapagos Islands. In 1943, he visited South America, under the auspices of the State Department, for the purpose of strengthening relations between the United States and Latin American scientists
- In 1955, the Smithsonian Institution began an association with J. Bruce Bredin of Wilmington, Delaware, that produced several scientific expeditions. In that year, Schmitt headed the Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition. Schmitt led Bredin-sponsored expeditions in the Caribbean, 1956, 1958, and 1959; the Society Islands, 1957; and the Yucatan, 1960. Sponsored by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, Schmitt spent the summers of 1961 and 1962 with Harry Pederson photographing coral reef fauna of the Bahama Islands. Schmitt's last expedition was in 1962-1963, when he served as a member of the Palmer Peninsula (Antarctica) Survey of the United States Antarctic Research Program. During the survey, Schmitt collected over 29,000 specimens which were added to the collections of the National Museum of Natural History. In recognition of his contributions to the United States Antarctic Research Program, the Board of Geographic Names designated a thirty-mile ice-covered series of outcrops at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, SCHMITT MESA
- Schmitt's primary field of zoological investigation was carcinology, with special emphasis on the decapod crustaceans (the order that includes crabs, lobsters, and shrimp). His bibliography consists of more than 70 titles. A member of numerous professional organizations, Schmitt was active in the founding of the Society of Systematic Zoology and served as president in 1948. He was also president of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1947. Schmitt was a trustee of the Bear's Bluff Laboratories, the International Oceanographic Foundation, and the Serological Museum of Rutgers University
- Summary:
- These papers document Schmitt's professional career and personal life and include correspondence; organizational files; diaries and miscellaneous notebooks; manuscripts, speeches, and records concerning publications; research material; material about Washington, D.C., traffic problems; biographical material on Mary Jane Rathbun; material concerning Robert A. Bartlett and the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions; a transcript of an oral history interview; expedition files; records concerning underwater photography field work with Harry Pederson; and photographs, slides, movies, lantern slides, tapes, awards, diplomas, and citations
- Topics:
- Biography, Invertebrate zoology, Records of meetings, organizations, and professional societies, Zoology
- Subjects:
- Schmitt, Waldo L (Waldo Lasalle) 1887-1977, Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945, Bartlett, Bob 1875-1946, Bredin, J. Bruce, Pederson, Harry, Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Zoology, Explorers Club, Division of Marine Invertebrates (NMNH) Department of Biology (NMNH), Palmer Peninsula (Antarctica) Survey, 1962-1963, Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.), Department of Biology (NMNH) National Museum of Natural History, Alaska King Crab Investigation Fish and Wildlife Service, Bartlett Arctic Expeditions (1928-1947), Bredin-Smithsonian Belgian Congo Expedition (1955), Bredin-Smithsonian Caribbean Expeditions (1956-1959), Bredin-Smithsonian Expedition to the Yucatan (1960), Bredin-Smithsonian Society Islands Expedition (1957), Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions (1933-1935), Hartford-Smithsonian West Indies Expedition (1937), Hancock South American Expedition (1939), Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition (1955), Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition to Yucatan (1960), Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition (1957), Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition (1937), United States Navy Galapagos Expedition (1941-1942), Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions, 1956-1959
- Form/Genre:
- Motion pictures (visual works), Collection descriptions, Audiotapes, Photographs
- Local Number:
- SIA RU007231
- Physical Description:
- 19.9 linear meters
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Table of Contents
- Collection Overview
- Historical Note
- Chronology
- Descriptive Entry
- Index Terms
- Administrative Information
- Container List
- Series 1 - General Correspondence, 1907-1977
- Series 2 - Organizational Files, 1913-1977
- Series 3 - Antarctic Research Series Files, 1962-1972
- Series 4 - Explorers Club Files, 1923-1977
- Series 5 - Society of Systematic Zoology Files, 1947-1976
- Series 6 - Committee on Polar Research Files, 1958-1967
- Series 7 - Diaries and Miscellaneous Notebooks, 1920-1971
- Series 8 - Records Concerning the Publication of Crustaceans, 1960-1976
- Series 9 - "The American Commensal Crabs of the Family Pinnotheridae," Correspondence and Research Material, 1962-1971
- Series 10 - Correspondence, Newspaper Articles, Manuscripts, and Related Material Concerning Washington, D.C. Traffic Problems, 1938-1965
- Series 11 - Manuscripts, Speeches, and Publications, 1919-1964
- Series 12 - Mary Jane Rathbun Biographical Material, 1925-1973
- Series 13 - Correspondence, Manuscripts, Photographs, Newspaper Clippings and Related Material Concerning Robert A. Bartlett and the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions, 1928-1947
- Series 14 - Oral History Interview, 1976
- Series 15 - Expedition Files, 1911-1963
- Series 16 - Records Concerning Underwater Photography Field Work of Harry Pederson and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1960-1966
- Series 17 - Photographs, Slides, Movies, Lantern Slides, and Tape Recordings, circa 1924-1978
- Series 18 - Awards, Diplomas, and Citations, 1926-1970
- Series 19 - Copy Negatives
Record Unit 7231
Schmitt, Waldo L,(Waldo Lasalle),1887-1977
Waldo L. Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978
Collection Overview | |
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Schmitt, Waldo L,(Waldo Lasalle),1887-1977 |
| Title: | Waldo L. Schmitt Papers |
| Dates: | 1907-1978 |
| Quantity: | 19.9 linear meters. |
| Collection: | Record Unit 7231 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
Historical Note
Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was born in Washington, D.C. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna of the District of Columbia and nearby Maryland. He received the B.S. degree from George Washington University in 1913; the M.A. degree from the University of California in 1916; and his Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1922. In 1948, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Southern California.
Schmitt began his career in government service in 1907 as an Aide in Economic Botany for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He served in that position until 1910 when he was appointed Scientific Aide in the Division of Marine Invertebrates of the United States National Museum (USNM). At USNM, he became acquainted with Mary Jane Rathbun and began to develop his interest in the study of crustacea. From 1911 to 1914, Schmitt served on the staff of the United States Bureau of Fisheries as Scientific Assistant and Naturalist aboard the Albatross during its cruises along the west coast of America and Alaska. Crustacean collections surveys made on the Albatross provided the material for Schmitt's M.A. thesis, "The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California." In 1915, Schmitt returned to the United States National Museum as Assistant Curator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates. From 1915 to 1920, he also served as part-time instructor of Zoology at George Washington University. In 1920, Schmitt was named Curator of the Division of Marine Invertebrates and remained in that capacity until 1943 when he was appointed Head Curator of the Department of Biology. The Department of Biology was split into the Departments of Zoology and Botany in 1947, with Schmitt as Head Curator of Zoology. Upon his retirement in 1957, Schmitt was named Honorary Research Associate and continued his association with the Smithsonian Institution until his death on 5 August 1977.
Schmitt participated in numerous biological expeditions and field trips during his career. Under the auspices of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, he spent the summer of 1918 studying the life history of the spiny lobster at the Scripps Institution, La Jolla, California. During the summers of 1924 and 1925, Schmitt was at the Carnegie Institution's Marine Laboratory at Tortugas, Florida, surveying the crustacean fauna of the area, identifying crustaceans found in the stomachs of fishes, and taking underwater photographs. He also participated in field work at Tortugas during the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932. In 1925, Schmitt was awarded the Smithsonian's Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship "for the study of the fauna of countries other than the United States." The scholarship enabled him to collect marine invertebrates along the east coast of South America from August to December, 1925, and on the west coast from August 1926 to May 1927.
During the years 1933 to 1935, Schmitt was a member of three expeditions to the Galapagos Islands sponsored by G. Allan Hancock of Los Angeles, California. While on these trips, Schmitt became acquainted with a group of utopian colonists on Florena Island in the Galapagos, who attracted considerable attention in the world press by their intrigues and mysterious behavior. As a guest of G. Huntington Hartford, he explored and collected in the West Indies on the Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition of 1937. In 1938, Schmitt was chosen by the White House to accompany President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Naturalist on the Presidential Cruise to Clipperton, Cocos, and the Galapagos Islands. In 1939, Schmitt was a member of the Hancock South America Expedition and he served as the Biologist in charge of field operations on the first United States Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska King Crab Investigation in 1940. During 1941 and 1942, Schmitt spent time on special detail with the United States Navy investigating the possibility of establishing a biological station in the Galapagos Islands. In 1943, he visited South America, under the auspices of the State Department, for the purpose of strengthening relations between United States and Latin American scientists.
In 1955, the Smithsonian Institution began an association with J. Bruce Bredin of Wilmington, Delaware, that produced several scientific expeditions. In that year, Schmitt headed the Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition. From 1956 to 1960, Schmitt led Bredin sponsored expeditions to the Caribbean (1956, 1958, 1959), the Society Islands (1957), and the Yucatan (1960). Sponsored by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, Schmitt spent the summers of 1961 and 1962 with Harry Pederson photographing the coral reef fauna of the Bahama Islands. Schmitt's last expedition was in 1962-1963, when he served as a member of the Palmer Peninsula (Antarctica) Survey of the United States Antarctic Research Program. During the survey, Schmitt collected over 29,000 specimens, which were added to the collections of the National Museum of Natural History. In recognition of his contributions to the United States Antarctic Research Program, the Board of Geographic Names designated a 30 mile ice-covered series of outcrops at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, Schmitt Mesa.
Schmitt's primary field of zoological investigation was carcinology, with special emphasis on the decapod crustaceans (the order that includes crabs, lobsters, and shrimp). His bibliography consists of more than seventy titles. A member of numerous professional organizations, Schmitt was active in the founding of the Society of Systematic Zoology and served as president in 1948. He was also president of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1947. Schmitt was a trustee of the Bear's Bluff Laboratories, the International Oceanographic Foundation, and the Serological Museum of Rutgers University.
For additional biographical information on Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, see Richard E. Blackwelder, The Zest for Life, or Waldo Had a Pretty Good Run: The Life of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (Lawrence, Kansas: The Allen Press, Inc., 1979); Fenner A. Chace, Jr., "Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 25 June 1887 - 5 August 1977," Crustaceana, 1978, vol. 34, pt. 1, pp. 83-90; and John Sherwood, "Uncle Waldo Still Hears the Call of Crustaceans," The Washington Star, January 11, 1977.
Chronology
- June 25, 1887
- Born in Washington, D.C.
- 1907-1910
- Aide in Economic Botany, United States Department of Agriculture
- 1910
- Scientific Aide, Division of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum (February-September)
- 1911
- Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries Expedition to Lower California aboard the Albatross (February-May)
- 1911
- Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries Chignik (Alaska) Biological Survey aboard the Albatross and the Star of Alaska (May-September)
- 1912-1914
- Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries Survey of San Francisco Bay aboard the Albatross (various trips)
- 1913
- Bachelor of Science, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- 1914
- Naturalist in charge of biological activities, Bureau of Fisheries Halibut Survey of Washington and Oregon aboard the Albatross (April-May, August-September)
- 1914
- Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries Olympia Oyster Beds Survey (June-August)
- 1914
- Married Alvina Stumm (November 19)
- 1915-1920
- Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, USNM
- 1915-1920
- Instructor in Zoology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- 1916
- Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
- 1918
- Bureau of Fisheries Spiny Lobster Investigations aboard the Albacore out of La Jolla, California (June-August)
- 1920-1943
- Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, USNM
- 1921
- The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California..., University of California Publications in Zoology, volume 23
- 1922
- Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- 1924
- Field work at Carnegie Marine Laboratory, Dry Tortugas, Florida (summer)
- 1925
- Field work at Carnegie Marine Laboratory, Dry Tortugas, Florida (summer)
- 1925
- Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the East Coast of South America (August-December)
- 1926-1927
- Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the West Coast of South America, including the Falkland Islands, Deception Island, and Juan Fernandez Islands (August 1926-May 1927)
- 1930
- Field work at Carnegie Marine Laboratory, Dry Tortugas, Florida (summer)
- 1931
- Crustaceans. Smithsonian Scientific Series, volume 10
- 1931
- Field work at Carnegie Marine Laboratory, Dry Tortugas, Florida (summer)
- 1932
- Field work at Carnegie Marine Laboratory, Dry Tortugas, Florida (summer)
- 1933
- Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition I aboard the Velero III (January-March)
- 1933-1934
- Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition II aboard the Velero III (December 1933-March 1934)
- 1934-1935
- Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition III aboard the Velero III (November 1934-February 1935)
- 1937
- Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition aboard the Joseph Conrad (March-May)
- 1938
- Presidential Cruise to the Galapagos aboard the U.S.S. Houston (July-August)
- 1939
- Hancock South America Expedition aboard the Velero III (March-May)
- 1940
- Biologist in charge of field operations, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska King Crab Investigation (August-December)
- 1941
- United States Navy Trip to the Galapagos (April)
- 1942
- United States Navy Trip to the Galapagos (June-July)
- 1943
- United States Department of State Trip to South America (April-June)
- 1943-1947
- Head Curator, Department of Biology, USNM
- 1947
- President, Washington Academy of Sciences
- 1947-1957
- Head Curator, Department of Zoology, USNM
- 1948
- Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Southern California
- 1948
- Society of Systematic Zoology formed with Schmitt as first President
- 1954
- Applied Systematics. Smithsonian Report for 1953
- 1955
- Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition (March-June)
- 1956
- Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition I (March-April)
- 1957
- Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition (April-May)
- 1957
- Retirement from USNM
- 1957-1977
- Research Associate, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History
- 1958
- Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition II (March-May)
- 1959
- Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition III (March-May)
- 1960
- Smithsonian-Bredin Yucatan Expedition (March-May)
- 1961-1962
- Underwater photography field work with Harry Pederson in the Bahamas
- 1962-1963
- Palmer Peninsula Survey, U.S. Antarctic Research Program (November 1962-March 1963)
- 1965
- Crustaceans. Republished by University of Michigan Press
- 1968
- "Schmitt Mesa" designated in Antarctica by Board of Geographic Names
- 1976
- Death of Alvina Schmitt
- August 5, 1977
- Death
- 1978
- "Remembrance to Waldo LaSalle Schmitt," memorial meeting at the National Museum of Natural History
Descriptive Entry
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 National Museum (USNM), his career as a field worker and scientific expedition member, and his activities in scientific societies and professional organizations.
Schmitt was a prolific letter writer and a large part of his papers consists of correspondence written and received between 1907 and 1977. The correspondence reflects all aspects of Schmitt's career, particularly expeditions and field work, the evolution of his duties at the USNM, carcinological research, and relations with the scientific community. Also included are many letters with friends and family members concerning personal matters.
Records relating to Schmitt's activities in scientific societies, professional organizations, and social groups are found in his organizational files. They also include files kept by Schmitt on government agencies, museums, colleges and universities, and research foundations. Included are records documenting Schmitt's tenure as President of the Washington Academy of Sciences, his duties as a trustee of the Bear's Bluff Laboratories and the International Oceanographic Foundation, his application for the position of Director of the California Academy of Sciences, his academic careers at George Washington University and the University of California, and his career as an instructor at George Washington University.
Other records relating to Schmitt's service in professional organizations exist in separate series. These include files concerning his work on the editorial board for biological manuscripts for the American Geophysical Union's Antarctic Research Series, records regarding his service on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Polar Research, and files reflecting his activities as a member of the Explorers Club and the Society of Systematic Zoology (SSZ). The SSZ files are of particular interest since they provide information concerning the founding and early history of the Society and include records maintained by Schmitt during his tenure as the organization's first President.
Schmitt's fifty-two-year career as a field worker and scientific expedition member is extensively illustrated in the expedition files. The records include diaries, field notes, station data, correspondence, manuscripts, reprints, publications, reports, newspaper clippings, financial records, photographs, notes, maps, and memorabilia collected by Schmitt. Records concerning his underwater photography field work with Harry Pederson are contained in a separate series.
Aside from his correspondence, Schmitt's personal activities and outside interests are best illustrated by records concerning his ideas and plans for easing traffic problems in Washington, D.C. Included is correspondence, newspaper articles by Schmitt, and hearing statements that outline his plans for a commuter railroad.
The papers include a large group of photographs, slides, movies, lantern slides, and tape recordings made and collected by Schmitt. Included are photographs of Schmitt, scientific colleagues, and Smithsonian and USNM associates; early underwater photographs taken by William Harding Longley at Tortugas, Florida; slides, movies, lantern slides, and tape recordings made on expeditions; and a tape recording of the "Remembrance to Waldo LaSalle Schmitt" held at the National Museum of Natural History in 1978.
The papers also include diaries and notebooks mostly concerning USNM business, but also containing entries made on expeditions; records dealing with the republication of Schmitt's book Crustaceans; files on his research project "The American Commensal Crabs of the Family Pinnotheridae"; manuscripts, speeches, and publications of Schmitt; biographical materials, compiled by Schmitt on his mentor, Mary Jane Rathbun; records, collected by Schmitt, on Robert A. Bartlett and the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions; a transcript of an oral history interview of Schmitt; and awards, diplomas, and citations received by Schmitt.
Additional material in the Smithsonian Archives that relates to Schmitt can be found in the records of the Division of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum (Record Units 233 and 235) and its successor, the Division of Crustacea, National Museum of Natural History (Record Unit 307), and the records of the Departments of Biology and Zoology, United States National Museum (Record Units 143, 242, and 243).
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Alaska King Crab Investigation. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946
- Bredin, J. Bruce
- Department of Biology (NMNH). National Museum of Natural History
- Division of Marine Invertebrates (NMNH). Department of Biology (NMNH)
- Explorers Club
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Dept. of Zoology.
- Palmer Peninsula (Antarctica) Survey, 1962-1963.
- Pederson, Harry.
- Rathbun, Mary Jane, 1860-1943
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977.
- Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.)
Subject
- Biography
- Invertebrate zoology.
- Records of meetings, organizations, and professional societies
- Zoology
Co-Creator
- Bartlett Arctic Expeditions (1928-1947)
- Bredin-Smithsonian Belgian Congo Expedition (1955)
- Bredin-Smithsonian Caribbean Expeditions (1956-1959)
- Bredin-Smithsonian Expedition to the Yucatan (1960)
- Bredin-Smithsonian Society Islands Expedition (1957)
- Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions (1933-1935)
- Hancock South American Expedition (1939)
- Hartford-Smithsonian West Indies Expedition (1937)
- Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition (1955)
- Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions, 1956-1959.
- Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition to Yucatan (1960)
- Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition (1957)
- Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition (1937)
- United States Navy Galapagos Expedition (1941-1942)
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7231, Schmitt, Waldo L,(Waldo Lasalle),1887-1977, Waldo L. Schmitt Papers
Container List
Series 1
General Correspondence, 1907-1977This series consists of correspondence documenting the professional career and personal life of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. A prolific letter writer, Schmitt maintained an extensive correspondence with domestic and foreign carcinologists and workers in all fields of the biological sciences. Correspondents also include officers and staff of the Smithsonian and United States National Museum, educators, government officials, business associates, family members, and friends. Correspondence concerns the administration of the Division of Marine Invertebrates and the Departments of Biology and Zoology; carcinological research; field work and collecting trips; foreign and domestic scientific affairs; and personal matters. A few manuscripts are also found in this series and are indicated in the folder listing. Correspondence and other files relating to scientific societies, universities, government agencies, and other organizations can be found in Series 2-6. The expedition files (Series 15) contain correspondence documenting Schmitt's many collecting excursions.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 1
Aa-Al, general
Albani, Felix A., 1943, 1952
Allen, Bennet Mills, 1918-1919
Allen, Paul Hamilton, 1944, 1956, 1965
Am, general
An-Az, general
Anderson, William W., 1943, 1946, 1956, 1967
Andre, Marc, 1946-1954
Andrew, Warren, 1953-1956
Archey, Gilbert, 1922, 1943-1946, 1955
Armstrong, Phillip Brownwell, 1959-1962
Awl, Aime M., 1947-1949, 1955, 1972
Axelrod, Herbert R., 1971
Baa-Bal, general
Bahamonde N., Nibaldo, 1951, 1971-1973
Bahovec, Fred, 1941-1948, 1969
Bailey, Joseph Randle, 1955-1956
Balan, B. de, 1929-1930, 1937
Baldwin, John Thomas, Jr., 1950, 1960, 1968
Balss, Heinrich, 1925, 1932-1956
Box 2
Bam-Baz, general
Banner, Albert H., 1946, 1951-1954, 1971
Barnard, Keppel H., 1944-1951
Bartlett, Harley Harris, 1947-1953
Bartos, William A., 1943-1945
Bartsch, Paul, 1914-1922, 1942-1945, 1951-1956, and undated
Baughman, John Lafferty, 1948-1966
Bayer, Frederick Merkle, 1946-1976
Be, general
Bean, Barton A., 1944-1946, 1959
Beatty, Harry A., 1937-1953, 1962, 1971
Behre, Ellinor Helene, 1943-1970, and undated
Beltran, Enrique, 1932, 1946-1948, 1954-1956
Benchley, Belle J., 1946, 1951
Bennett, Isobel, 1953-1958
Berkeley, Cyril, 1946-1954
Box 3
Bhatt, Dibya Deo, 1960-1962
Bi-Bj, general
Bigelow, Henry Bryant, 1941-1949, 1955
Bigelow, Robert Payne, 1947-1952
Biggerstaff, Margaret, 1961-1966
Bikini Survey, 1956-1957. Includes correspondence of Sidney Roland Galled, Martin Wiggo Johnson, Robert James Menzies, and Irene A. McCulloch
Biological Abstracts, 1929-1959
Bjornberg, Tagea K.S., 1960-1973, and undated
Bl, general
Blackwelder, Richard Eliot, 1949-1976. Includes correspondence concerning the Society of Systematic Zoology (4 folders)
Box 4
Blake, J. Henry, 1935-1939
Bo, general
Bode, William T., 1958-1960, 1965
Bolin, Rolf Ling, 1936-1937, 1955
Boone, Pearl Lee, 1920-1921, 1930-1933
Boschma, Heinrich, 1930-1937, 1945-1956, 1965. The correspondence of 1945-1946 contains accounts of Nazi occupation of The Netherlands
Bousfield, Edward Lloyd, 1959-1971
Boyden, Alan Arthur, 1938-1976 (4 folders)
Br, general
Brabson, Kimberly, 1950-1952
Brame, Arthur, 1928-1930, 1937, 1944, 1950, 1956, 1963
Box 5
Bredin, J. Bruce, 1938, 1947, 1956-1972
Brice, Arthur T., 1946-1949
Broch, Hjalmar, 1946-1957
Brooks, John Langdon, 1952-1958
Brown, William L., 1948
Bryant, Harold C., 1918-1919
Bryant, Herbert S., 1924-1925, 1933, 1939-1945
Bu-By, general
Buell, Crawford R., 1947, 1957-1972
Buitendijk, Alida M., 1941, 1945-1948
Bunt, John S., 1966-1967
Burkenroad, Martin David, 1946-1956
Ca, general
Cabanillas, Jose M., 1944-1947, 1976
Cagle, Fred Ray, 1952-1957
Calman, William Thomas, 1921-1922, 1928, 1932, 1939-1946
Camacho, Horacio H., 1962-1966
Camacho, Ralph, 1955-1960
Campbell, Alex, 1939, 1965-1966, and undated
Carbonell, Carlos S., 1950-1956
Carcelles, Alberto, 1930, 1943-1948
Carl, George Clifford, 1944, 1953-1967. Also includes correspondence of Josephine F. L. Hart Carl
Box 6
Carmichael, Leonard, 1941, 1952-1963
Carriker, Melbourne Romaine, 1952, 1955, 1961-1969
Casady, Ralph, 1965-1974
Caso, Maria Elena, 1954-1956, 1966, 1970
Ch-Ci, general
Chace, E.P., 1917-1918, 1946, 1950, 1954-1957
Chace, Fenner A., Jr., 1942-1975 (2 folders)
Chamberlain, Frederick M., 1911 and undated
Chapman, James W., 1947-1956
Chapman, Wilbert M., 1961-1962
Christensen, Asher N., 1943-1945
Christensen, Jorge R., 1943-1946
Box 7
Cl, general
Clark, Austin H., 1916, 1926, 1943-1946
Clark, Austin H. Correspondence, notes, speeches, and related material concerning Clark's 70th birthday celebration and retirement party, 1950-1951
Clark, Helen E., 1965
Clark, Hubert Lyman, 1936, 1940, 1944-1946
Clark, Leila F. (Mrs. Austin H.), 1939, 1946, 1951, 1955-1956, 1962
Clarke, John Frederick Gates, 1954-1957, 1961-1962
Coa-Com, general
Cochran, Doris Mable, 1921, 1943-1961
Coe, Wesley Roswell, 1922, 1938-1943, 1948
Coker, Robert Ervin, 1916-1918, 1934, 1943-1956, 1966-1967
Collins, Henry H., Jr., 1956-1959
Compton, Arthur H., 1950-1951
Con-Coz, general
Conger, Paul Sidney, 1936, 1949, 1965, and undated
Connell, Joseph A., 1954-1962 and undated
Cooke, Edmund V., 1936-1945
Cordero, Ergasto H., 1943-1951
Box 8
Cornwall, Ira E., 1946-1958
Cortes, Raul, 1944-1950
Cowan, Richard Sumner, 1965-1974
Cr, general
Crane, Jocelyn, 1943-1958, 1966, 1970-1975
Creaser, Edwin Phillip, 1929-1950
Crickmay, Geoffrey William, 1938-1939
Cronin, L. Eugene, 1944-1965, 1975
Crossroads Project, 1946-1949. Includes correspondence of Norman T. Allen, H.H. Bartlett, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, William Randolph Taylor, and Alexander Wetmore
Cu, general
Cultural Relations Program, 1944-1946. Includes correspondence of John Enos Graf and Egbert Hamilton Walker
Cushman, Joseph A., 1923, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1946
Da, general
Daiber, Franklin Carl, 1960-1970
Daley, Marcus and Phyllis, 1975-1977. Concerns the disposition of the Arthur deC. Sowerby papers
Damkaer, David M., 1963, 1973-1976
Darsie, Richard F., Jr., 1959-1962
Box 9
Davidson, Edward S., 1965-1969
Davis, Charles Carroll, 1943-1947, 1954
Dawson, Charles Eric, 1964-1967
Dawson, E. Yale, 1944-1967
Day, J. H., 1953-1956
Dayton, Paul K., 1968-1969
De, general
Degener, Otto, 1929, 1934, 1940-1949
Deichmann, Elisabeth, 1943-1947, 1952, 1965
de Laubenfels, Max Walker, 1936, 1940-1947, 1951-1958
Del Solar, Enrique M., 1943, 1972
Del Valle, Pedro G., 1938-1939, 1943, 1947
Denckla, Paul, 1959-1967
Dessauer, Herbert Clay, 1966-1967
Dexter, Ralph Warren, 1946, 1965-1969
Di, general
Dill, Homer R., 1935, 1946, 1953
Do, general
Doello-Jurado, Martin, 1929, 1932, 1943-1948
Dohrn, Peter, 1955, 1964, and undated
Domantay, Jose S., 1952-1957
Dorion, Robert C., 1952-1962
Douglas, Neil, 1954-1955
Downey, Maureen, 1957, 1963-1968
Dr, general
Du-Dy, general
DuPont, Irenee, 1957-1958
Durand, Rene, 1929-1935, 1942
Durden, Beatrice V., 1962-1965
Duval, Miles P., 1944-1954
Box 10
Ea-El, general
Eakin, Richard Marshall, 1946-1956
Edmondson, Charles Howard, 1937, 1945-1947, 1957, 1961
Eisaman, Josiah R., 1951-1952
Eiseley, Loren C., 1965
Eldred, Bonnie, 1964-1967
Elkeles, Gerardo, 1947-1948, 1952
Elliott, Ralph C., 1939-1941, 1964. Includes a manuscript "Sailing Down Mexico Way," by Elliott (2 folders)
Ellis, T. Kenneth, 1943-1954
Ellison, William A., Jr., 1932-1956
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1941-1945. Includes correspondence, notes, photographs, and a copy of a journal regarding the Ellsworth Archeological Expedition to the crater of El Mista, Arequipa, Peru, 1941 (2 folders)
Em-Ez, general
Emerson, William Keith, 1948-1970
Emery, Kenneth Orris, 1950, 1955, 1966
Evans, Herbert H., 1942-1948, 1954-1962, 1970
Evans, J.W., 1955-1958
Ewan, Joseph, 1946-1947, 1958, 1965-1966, 1970
Eyerdam, Walter J., 1955, 1960, 1965-1970
Box 11
Fa, general
Fage, Louis, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1964
Fagg, Fred D., Jr., 1948-1949
Fe, general
Felippone, Florentino, 1925-1927, 1930, 1932
Ferguson, Edward, Jr., 1954
Fesquet, Alberto E. J., 1942-1943, 1948
Fessenden, G. R., 1945, 1950-1956
Fi-Fl, general
Filley, Louis, 1933-1936
Finlay, C. John, 1957-1967
Fish, Charles John, 1930-1932, 1946-1966. Also includes correspondence of Marie Poland Fish
Fisher, Walter Kenrick, 1918-1919, 1937-1961. Includes a handwritten manuscript "Additions to the Echiuroid Fauna of the North Pacific Ocean," by Fisher (2 folders)
Fo, general
Forest, Jacques, 1954, 1967
Fosberg, Francis Raymond, 1946, 1955, 1958
Fr-Fu, general
Fraser, Charles McLean, 1921, 1933, 1943-1947
Frey, David Grover, 1946-1947, 1950
Friedmann, Herbert, 1943, 1950-1957
Box 12
Ga, general
Galled, Sidney Roland, 1960-1969
Galtsoff, Paul Simon, 1947-1971
Garth, John Shrader, 1937-1976 (2 folders)
Gary, Roland Thacher, 1950, 1954
Gates, Gordon Enoch, 1927-1930, 1941-1951
Gauss, H.C., 1943-1946
Ge-Gf, general
Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1933, 1940, 1947, 1951-1952
Gi-Gl, general
Gibson-Hill, Carl A., 1947-1949
Gilmore, Raymond Maurice, 1957-1963
Ginsburg, Benjamin, 1962
Glassell, Steve A., 1935-1938, 1943-1950, 1955
Glynn, Peter, 1964-1966, 1974
Box 13
Go, general
Goeth, C.M., 1954-1961
Goetz, Bernice M., 1944-1964, and undated (3 folders)
Gordon, Isabella, 1932, 1945-1964
Gr-Gy, general
Graf, John Enos, 1933-1956
Graham, Herbert William, 1932, 1943-1950, 1957
Gray, Irving Emery, 1955-1956, 1970
Green, Malcolm, 1925-1926, 1934-1937, 1943, 1946, 1955-1957, 1961-1968
Greenfield, Ray, 1945-1946, 1955-1976. Includes correspondence concerning the disposition of the Arthur deC. Sowerby papers (2 folders)
Box 14
Griggs, Robert Fiske, 1941, 1947-1951
Guitart, Raul P., 1944
Gunter, Gordon, 1945-1946, 1950-1957, 1962-1976
Gurney, Robert, 1938-1950. Also includes correspondence of O.R. Gurney, 1950
Haa-Han, general
Haas, Fritz, 1943-1946, 1951
Haig, Janet, 1953-1954, 1964-1967
Hale, Herbert M., 1932, 1944-1957
Hall, Eugene Raymond, 1951, 1955
Hancock, G. Allan, 1932-1966 (2 folders)
Hancock, Helen L., 1936-1954, and undated
Hand, Cadet Hammond, Jr., 1947-1951, 1967
Hanna, G. Dallas, 1920, 1946, 1951, 1964-1965
Hao-Haz, general
Harding, J.P., 1945, 1954, 1964-1966
Hargis, William J., Jr., 1954, 1967
Harriman Alaska Expedition. Concerns efforts by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt to compile information on the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
Box 15
Harring, Harry K., 1928-1929, 1945, 1951-1953
Harris, Sterling G., 1937, 1941-1956
Harrison, Roger Webster, 1941-1943
Hartford, G. Huntington, 1938, 1953, and undated
Hartman, Olga, 1939, 1944-1969, and undated. Also includes correspondence of Anker Peterson
Hassett, William D., 1949-1951, 1957-1961
He, general
Heberlein, Hermann, 1966-1967
Hedgpeth, Joel Walker, 1943-1973 and undated (2 folders)
Henry, Dora Priaulx, 1941-1953, 1957, 1971
Herring, Paul C., 1946-1947
Hewatt, Willis Gilliland, 1940, 1946-1956, 1969
Box 16
Hi, general
Hiatt, Robert Worth, 1943, 1948-1954
Higgins, Elmer W., 1933, 1945, 1947
Higgins, Robert P., 1966-1967, 1971-1973
Hildebrand, Samuel Frederick, 1924-1931, 1938, 1941, 1949-1953. Includes a biographical sketch by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt and bibliography of Hildebrand. Also included is a manuscript, "The Days of a Plodder," by Hildebrand (2 folders)
Hilton, William Allen, 1940, 1943-1945
Hinckley, Sumner P., 1948-1949
Ho, general
Hobbs, Horton H., Jr., 1943-1961
Hobbs, Kenneth Lancaster, 1948-1961, and undated
Hoff, Clarence Clayton, 1943-1956
Holmquist, Charlotte, 1956-1976
Holthuis, Lipke B., 1945-1975 (2 folders)
Horton, Louis P., 1948-1951
Box 17
Houck, Margaret Elliott, 1944-1947, 1952, 1964, and undated
Howard, John K., 1953-1955
Hu-Hy, general
Hubbell, Theodore Huntington, 1957-1959
Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, 1945-1967
Humes, Arthur Grover, 1945-1947
Hummelinck, P. Wagenaar, 1946-1948
Hunter, William, 1941
Huntsman, Archibald Gowanlock, 1924, 1931, 1936, 1944-1950
Hutchins, Louis W., 1944-1948, 1954-1955
Hyman, Orren Williams, 1950-1951
I, general
Illg, Paul Louis, 1946-1974, and undated
Iltis, Hugh Hellmut, 1945-1953
Ingram, William M., 1949-1956
Isbell, Horace Smith, 1945
Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell, 1941
J, general
Johansen, Frits, 1919, 1924-1925
Johnson, David H., 1950-1959
Johnson, Eldridge R. Fenimore, 1930-1932, 1946-1957
Johnson, Martin Wiggo, 1943, 1948-1958, 1971
Johnston, Edward C., 1914-1917, 1937, 1945, 1951, 1966-1967
Junge, Carlos, 1934, 1944-1956, 1962
Just, Theodor, 1952-1955
Box 18
Ka-Ke, general
Kakavas, James Christos, 1953-1955
Kane, Eugene C., 1960
Keddy, John L., 1945-1957
Kellers, Henry C., 1925-1932, 1941-1956, 1966-1968. Includes correspondence of Elsie M. Kellers
Kellogg, A. Remington, 1932, 1942-1960, 1969. Includes notes kept by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt concerning Kellogg (2 folders)
Kenk, Roman, 1944-1949, 1958, 1961, 1965
Ki-Kl, general
Killip, Ellsworth Paine, 1946-1950, 1954, 1961-1964
Kim, Ke Chung, 1957
Kincaid, Trevor, 1915, 1921, 1938, 1948-1956
Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1944-1952
Kleerekoper, Herman, 1946-1951
Kn-Ku, general
Knox, David D., 1942-1952
Kofoid, Charles Atwood, 1917, 1920, 1931, 1934
Kolosvary, Gabriel von, 1947-1950
Kousnetzoff, W., 1947-1949
Kuhn, Walter, 1926-1970. Includes correspondence of Brenda and Vera Kuhn
Kumakura, Harry, 1943-1944
Box 19
La, general
Ladd, Harry Stephen, 1943-1953, 1967
Lawrence, A. Hicks, 1936
Lawrence, R.F., 1951
Le, general
Lebour, Marie V., 1929, 1932, 1945
Lecompte, M., 1937, 1947
Lee, Henry Atherton, 1919, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1951-1955
Legendre, Vianney, 1948
Leidy Medal Award, 1955. Concerns the selection of Herbert Friedmann as the recipient of the Leidy Medal Award, 1955
Leipper, Dale F., 1952-1954
Lellman, Karl V., 1929-1930, 1932, 1943
Lemann, Thomas B., 1963
Leone, Charles Abner, 1947-1950, 1962-1963
Lewis, Charles Bernard, Jr., 1948, 1955-1956, 1960
Li-Ll, general
Light, Sol Felty, 1924-1925, 1931-1947
Linder, Folke, 1945-1949
Lindner, Milton Jerome, 1941-1947, 1960-1961
Llano, George Albert, 1951-1974
Box 20
Lo, general
Longley, William Harding, 1928-1930, 1936-1938
Lu-Ly, general
Luce, Foster, 1949-1959, 1965
Luederwaldt, Hermann, 1925-1931
Lunz, George Robert, Jr., 1943-1970. Also includes correspondence of Elsie Lunz. Most of the correspondence concerns the Bear's Bluff Laboratories, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina (5 folders)
Box 21
Lunz, George Robert, Jr., 1971-1976, and undated (3 folders)
Lyle, Clay, 1942-1949, 1962-1966
Lynch, James Eric, 1946, 1960-1967
Lynch, William F., 1950-1954
Maa-Mal, general
McCain, John C., 1964-1976
McCain, Lucile, 1929-1977. Includes personnel records and efficiency ratings, 1922-1955 (4 folders)
Box 22
McCarthy, Eileen M., 1954-1969
McCoy, Squier, 1965-1975 and undated. Concerns the disposition of the Arthur deC. Sowerby papers
McCulloch, Irene A., 1925, 1932-1972, and undated (6 folders)
MacDonald, Edwin A., 1965-1969
MacDonald, Elizabeth F., 1952-1975
MacFarland, Olive H., 1951-1962
Box 23
MacGinitie, George Eber, 1931, 1935, 1939-1975 (4 folders)
McHugh, John Laurence, 1951-1968
MacKay, Donald C. G., 1931, 1943-1946
McLaughlin, Patsy A., 1960, 1963, 1965, 1975
McNab, James Arthur, 1949-1956
McNeill, Frank A., 1922, 1928, 1932-1933, 1938, 1942-1943, 1958-1959, 1966-1967
Magnus, Finn H., 1962-1965
Maloney, James O., 1925, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1962
Mam-Mar, general
Mann, Guillermo, 1948-1955
Manning, Raymond B., 1957-1976
Manter, Harold W., 1933-1937, 1943-1957, 1966, 1971
Marcus, Ersnesto, 1943-1956, 1968, 1972-1976
Marsh, Charles Dwight, 1929, 1932, 1936-1941
Marsh, O. Gaylord, 1925-1927, 1934-1935
Marsh, Wilder, 1940, 1942, 1950, 1955
Box 24
Marshall, Robert E., 1956-1957
Marshall, William B., 1947-1948, 1953
Martin, Joel M., 1946, 1952, and undated
Mas-Maz, general
Mather, Patricia Kott, 1965-1974
Mattox, N.T., 1949-1950
Maxon, William Ralph, 1926, 1930, 1940, 1944
May, Ernest N., 1946-1947, 1952, 1957-1962, 1965-1972, and undated
Mayr, Ernst, 1946, 1954-1956
Me, general
Mears, Eliot G., 1943-1945
Medem, Frederico, 1951, 1955-1956
Mendes, Erasmo Garcia, 1946-1947
Menzies, Robert James, 1943-1957, 1961
Merriman, Daniel, 1944-1948, 1956
Metcalf, Maynard Mayo, 1926, 1942, and undated
Meyer, Marvin Clinton, 1944-1952, and undated
Meyerhoff, Howard Augustus, 1946-1947
Mi, general
Mielche, Hakon, 1937-1939, 1952-1958, 1964-1967, and undated
Miller, Robert Rush, 1947-1950, 1955-1956, 1964
Mills, John W., 1933, 1937, 1940-1941, 1952
Miner, Ralph Waldo, 1921, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1943
Minoprio, Jose Luis, 1944-1954
Box 25
Mo, general
Mohr, John Luther, 1947-1948, 1953, 1962, 1966
Moment, Gairdner Bostwick, 1947, 1950, 1959, 1962
Monod, Theodore, 1935, 1938, 1943, 1953-1954, 1959
Moore, John Percy, 1942-1954
Moreira, Carlos, 1922, 1932, 1935, 1943-1944, and undated
Moreno, Abelardo, 1947, 1950-1959, 1963
Morton, Conrad Vernon, 1947, 1956, 1958
Moure, Jesus, 1944-1948, 1953
Mu, general
Mumford, Edward Philpott, 1945-1946, and undated
Murchie, William Roger, 1951, 1953, 1956
My, general
Myers, Earl H., 1948-1953, and undated
Myers, George Sprague, 1943, 1949, 1951-1953
Na, general
Ne, general
Necker, Walter Ludwig, 1944-1952, 1956, 1960-1966
Negus, Sidney Stevens, 1951-1953
Nelles, Maurice, 1948-1949
Nelson, Thurlow C., 1946-1952, 1955-1960
Nemenzo, Francisco, 1953-1954
Nesbitt, Paul H., 1951-1952
Netting, Morris Graham, 1946-1955, 1959-1962
Newcombe, Curtis Lakeman, 1943-1959
Box 26
Ni, general
Nicholls, Aubrey G., 1944-1947
Nicholson, Desmond V., 1956-1972. Also includes correspondence of V.E.B. Nicholson
No, general
Nunez, Rene, 1949-1951
Nunomuro, Noboru, 1975-1976
Nutt, David C., 1938, 1944-1948, 1952, 1955-1956, 1963, 1967, and undated
Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1924
O, general
Oehser, Paul Harry, 1943, 1949, 1954-1957, 1964-1966, 1970, 1973
Olmsted, Arthur J., 1927, 1932, 1942-1943, 1945
Olshausen, Joern J., 1972-1976
Ortiz, G. M., 1951-1955
Osburn, Raymond Carroll, 1940-1956, and undated
Osoria Tafall, B.F., 1946-1947, 1950
Ousdal, Asbjorn P., 1938, 1951-1957
Owen, Robert I., 1944-1955
Box 27
Pa, general
Palombi, Vincenzo, 1954-1955
Panning, Albert, 1946-1956, 1966, 1969
Pardi, L., 1956
Parodiz, Juan Jose, 1943-1957, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1973-1974
Patrick, Ruth, 1952-1957
Pawson, David L., 1967-1973
Pe, general
Pearse, Arthur Sperry, 1943-1953
Pearson, Jay, 1954-1957
Pederson, Harry, 1955, 1963, 1966
Penn, George Henry, 1945, 1951, 1953
Pennak, Robert W., 1948-1952, 1963-1964
Perret, Frank A., 1937-1939
Petit, Maurice, 1937-1939
Pettibone, Marian H., 1948-1957, 1969-1970
Pf-Pl, general
Pickford, Grace Evelyn, 1943-1954, 1958, 1964-1975
Pilsbry, Henry A., 1931, 1936, 1943-1947, 1952-1954, 1957
Box 28
Po, general
Porter, Carlos E., 1924-1930, 1935-1943, and undated
Pr, general
Price, John W., 1940, 1944-1957
Price, Llewellyn Ivor, 1944, 1947, 1949
Pu-Py, general
Q, general
Questel, Adrien, 1945-1948
Quiring, Daniel P., 1951-1952
Ra, general
Raney, Edward C., 1950-1953
Rangnekar, P.G., 1953-1958
Rankin, Edward P., 1927, 1932, 1943-1944, 1948-1949, and undated
Rathbun, Mary Jane, 1914, 1921, 1923-1932, 1936-1938, 1943-1944
Ravenel, William deC., 1923-1930
Ray, George Carleton, 1966-1969
Ray, Dixie Lee, 1956-1960
Re, general
Reed, Albert E., 1934, 1946, 1955
Reed, John Mark, 1938, 1941-1946, 1950, 1954-1956
Reese, Ernst S., 1964, 1967
Rehder, Harald A., 1935, 1946, 1948-1949, 1955-1956, 1961, 1976
Rehn, James Abram Garfield, 1943
Reinhard, Edward G., 1944-1948, 1950-1951, 1956
Revelle, Roger Randall Dugan, 1954, 1957, 1965
Box 29
Rh-Rk, general
Rhoades, Rendell, 1943, 1950-1954
Richards, Horace Gardiner, 1928, 1943-1950, 1953, 1957
Ringuelet, Raul, 1945, 1949-1950
Ripley, S. Dillon, 1964-1973
Riser, Nathan Wendell, 1949-1950, 1956-1957
Ritterbush, Philip C., 1962, 1965-1966, 1969
Rivas, Louis Rene, 1950
Rob-Roj, general
Roberts, Henry B., 1950-1956
Roberts, H. Radclyffe, 1954-1958
Robson, Elinor D., 1944, 1961-1962, 1967-1969, 1973
Rogick, Mary Dora, 1949-1958
Rol-Roz, general
Romer, Alfred S., 1947, 1952-1954, 1962, 1964
Romero, Pablo Bush, 1960-1964
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1938, 1943
Ross, Edward S., 1950-1954
Ru-Ry, general
Box 30
Sa, general
Sawayo, Paulo, 1943-1956, 1977
Sc, general
Scanland, Thomas B., 1963-1964
Scattergood, Leslie W., 1949, 1955, 1964
Scheffer, Victor Blanchard, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1966
Schenck, Hubert Gregory, 1948-1951
Schlee, Susan, 1973
Schmidt, Karl Patterson, 1939-1957
Schmidt, Wolfgang A., 1925-1933
Schmitt, Alvina S. (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), 1932, 1945-1962, and undated. Includes both letters written to and received from Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Most of the correspondence was written while Schmitt served on expeditions (2 folders)
Schmitt, Barbara Ann (Mrs. Robert T. Lundy), undated
Schmitt, Fanny M., 1911-1914 and undated. Consists mostly of letters written by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt to his mother while he served aboard the Albatross, 1911-1914 (2 folders)
Box 31
Schmitt, Francis L., 1935, 1939-1945
Schmitt, Hugo R., 1914, 1935, 1953, 1957-1958, 1962
Schmitt, Thelma, 1932-1939, 1946-1950, 1957-1959, 1963, 1965, and undated
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Employment records and efficiency ratings, 1907-1957 (2 folders)
Schroeder, Charles Robbins, 1935, 1943, 1946-1953, 1956
Schroeder, William Charles, 1945-1952
Schultz, Leonard Peter, 1943-1953
Schwartz, Frank J., 1959, 1965
Scofield, N. B., 1918-1919 and undated
Scott, Christina, 1938, 1940, 1944-1946
Se, general
Secretan, Sylvie, 1966-1967, 1972-1976, and undated
Seifriz, William, 1930-1931, 1943, 1946, 1950-1951
Sexton, Roy Lyman, 1945, 1949-1950, 1956
Sh, general
Shamel, H. Harold, 1951-1954
Shen, Chia-Jui, 1945-1949
Shoemaker, Clarence R., 1926, 1959, and undated
Shuster, Carl N., Jr., 1953-1964
Si, general
Sibal, Joseph, 1957-1969
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1948-1949, 1954, 1963-1964
Sk-Sl, general
Sladen, William Joseph Lambert, 1966-1967
Slevin, Joseph R., 1935-1953
Box 32
Sm-Sp, general
Smalley, Alfred Evans, 1967-1970
Smith, Albert C., 1952-1966
Smith, F. G. Walton, 1935, 1943-1973 (3 folders)
Smith, Frank, 1922-1923, 1945
Soule, John Dutcher, 1950-1951, 1958
Box 33
Sowerby, Arthur deC., 1948-1974. Includes correspondence of Mrs. Arthur deC. Sowerby. The correspondence mostly concerns the disposition of the Sowerby papers. For related material see under Marcus Daley, Ray Greenfield, and Squier McCoy
Springer, Stewart, 1943-1944, 1948-1950, 1959
Sproston, Nora G., 1945-1949
Sta-Ste, general
Stejneger, Leonhard, 1921-1943
Stephensen, Knud, 1937, 1946-1947
Stephenson, Thomas A., 1944-1954, 1960
Stephenson, W., 1951-1957
Stetson, Henry C., 1943-1946
Stevens, Belle Alice, 1924, 1932, 1943-1956
Stevenson, John Albert, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1968
Sti-Stu, general
Stiles, Karl A., 1947-1948, 1951
Stone, R.V., 1944-1946
Storer, Tracy I., 1920, 1945, 1950, 1953-1956
Storey, Margaret H., 1955
Strauss, Henry, 1957-1961
Stunkard, Horace Wesley, 1953-1954, 1957, 1963
Box 34
Su-Sz, general
Sumner, Francis Bertody, 1916-1918, 1937, 1944-1950, 1956-1957
Sutcliffe, William Humphrey, Jr., 1949-1955, 1967
Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik, 1941-1945
Swallen, Jason Richard, 1945, 1955-1957
Swan, Emery Frederick, 1949-1952, 1957
Swett, W. Charles, 1933-1936
Ta-Te, general
Tattersall, Olive S., 1949-1957, 1961, 1966
Tattersall, Walter Medley, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1942
Taylor, Harden F., 1950-1955
Taylor, Walter P., 1939, 1947, 1950-1955
Taylor, William Randolph, 1943-1972
Teague, Gerard W., 1944-1973 (2 folders)
Templeman, Wilfred, 1943-1949, 1954
Terney, Ewald W., 1961-1966
Tewkesbury, Richard, 1940-1943
Th, general
Thomas, William Stephen, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1954-1957, 1966
Thompson, Thomas Gordon, 1935, 1941-1952
Thompson, William Francis, 1915-1919
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Ti-To, general
Todd, Ruth, 1976
Tr-Ty, general
Tressler, Willis Lattanner, 1940, 1943-1955
True, Webster P., 1933, 1944-1947, 1951
Truitt, Reginald Van Trump, 1933-1936, 1943-1954, 1962
Turton, Patricia Hornaday, 1966, and undated
U, general
Urita, C. Tomoye, 1917, 1929-1930
Vai-Vaz, general
Van Cleave, Harley Jones, 1943-1953
Van Name, Willard G., 1921, 1942, 1946, 1954
Van Schaak, George B., 1947-1950, 1956, 1964, 1971
Van Straelen, Victor, 1937, 1940, 1946, 1964, 1972, 1974
Vaughan, T. Wayland, 1925-1928, 1947-1951
Ve-Vu, general
Verrill, A. Hyatt, 1945, 1951
von Bonde, Cecil, 1946-1949
von Klein Smid, Rufus B., 1938, 1942-1947
Voss, Gilbert L., 1951-1964
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Wa, general
Walcott, Charles D., 1923-1925
Walker, Egbert Hamilton, 1945, 1948, 1951-1976
Walker, Stanley M., 1928-1929, 1943, 1945, 1950
Wallace, M. Marvin, 1943-1946
Wallen, Irvin Eugene, 1964-1972
Wallis, William W., 1949-1956
Walton, George Pelham, 1923-1925, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1956-1957, 1965
Ward, Henry Baldwin, 1945-1947
Wass, Marvin L., 1953-1959, 1965, 1974, and undated
We, general
Webber, Joel F., 1948-1957, 1970-1971
Weiss, Helena, 1950-1960, 1965-1967, 1970
Wells, John W., 1947-1957
Wenzlick, Delbert S., 1946-1947
Wetmore, Alexander, 1925-1953
Weymouth, Frank Walter, 1925-1929, 1932, 1948, 1951
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Wg-Wi, general
Wharton, George W., Jr., 1947-1959, 1964, 1973
Wiggins, Ira Loren, 1952-1959
Wilbur, Karl Milton, 1953-1954
Wilimovsky, Norman Joseph, 1949, 1953-1956
Williams, Austin B., 1951-1954, 1966
Williams, John C., 1944, 1959-1965
Williams, Milo Woodbridge, 1943-1953, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972-1975
Williamson, Adolph Ancrum, 1952-1961
Williamson, George, 1927-1928
Wilson, Carroll A., 1941-1949. Correspondence mostly concerning the estate of Charles Branch Wilson
Wilson, Charles Branch, 1929, 1938, 1941, 1945-1946, 1950
Wilson, Edward Carl, 1967
Wilson, Mildred S., 1946-1955, 1966-1967
Wittmer, Margret, 1935-1949, 1958
Wo-Wy, general
Wolff, Torben L., 1956, 1960-1972, and undated
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Woods, Loren P., 1948-1949
Wright, Jorge E., 1944-1946
Wright, Stillman, 1943-1944, 1955-1956, 1963, and undated
Y, general
Yeatman, Harry Clay, 1944, 1954-1966
Z, general
Zetek, James, 1938-1939, 1942-1956, and undated (4 folders)
Ziesenhenne, Fred C., 1938, 1943-1975, and undated (2 folders)
Zim, Herbert S., 1955, 1966-1967
Zimmer, Carl, 1932, 1935, 1947
Zinn, Donald Joseph, 1944-1951, 1964-1973
Zwemer, Raymund Lull, 1948-1949, 1956, 1967
Illegible signatures and unidentified correspondence
Series 2
Organizational Files, 1913-1977This series consists mostly of correspondence with scientific societies, government agencies, museums, colleges and universities, publishers, social organizations, research foundations, and corporations. Also included are files on committees and panels on which Waldo LaSalle Schmitt served. Minutes of meetings, memoranda, announcements, photographs, fiscal reports, and related records are also found in the files. Materials of special interest include records concerning Schmitt's academic career at the University of California and George Washington University and his application for the position of Director of the California Academy of Sciences. For other organizational files see Series 3-6.
Arranged alphabetically.
Box 39
Agriculture, United States Department of, 1926-1950, 1956-1957, 1961-1963, 1966, 1974
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Correspondence, 1945-1956, 1960-1962, 1974 (2 folders)
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Circulars, announcements, minutes of meetings, and membership records, 1946-1961 (2 folders)
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Boston meeting, 1946
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Chicago meeting, 1947
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Washington meeting, 1948
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American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York meeting, 1949
American Association for the Advancement of Science: St. Louis meeting, 1952 (2 folders)
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Boston meeting, 1953
American Association of Museums, 1945-1953, 1959, 1961, 1963. Includes correspondence of Laurence Vail Coleman
American Association of University Women, 1947
American Council of Commercial Laboratories, 1948
American Geophysical Union, 1942, 1958, 1964-1976
American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1950-1972
American Museum of Natural History, 1943, 1953-1956, 1968
American Philosophical Society, 1946-1947, 1952-1953, 1967
Box 41
American Polar Society, 1940-1948, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1943-1945, 1949-1956, 1962. Includes correspondence of Morris Graham Netting
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1948-1975
American Society of Naturalists, 1948-1954
American Society of Zoologists, 1944-1970. Includes correspondence of Carl G. Hartman
American Type Culture Collection, 1948-1955 (4 folders)
The Antarctican Society, 1963-1972
The Anteaters Association, 1944-1947
Antiquariaat Junk, 1950, 1968-1976
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Arctic Institute of North America, 1945-1966. Includes correspondence of David C. Nutt concerning the Blue Dolphin Labrador Expeditions, 1949-1954
Arthur Lectures of the Smithsonian Institution, 1946-1948
Atlantic Estuarine Research Society, 1950-1966. Includes photographs from 1950 meeting, Gloucester Point, Virginia
The Australian Museum, 1945, 1955-1956. Includes correspondence of J. W. Evans
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1934-1938, 1946
Barro Colorado Island Conference, 1953-1954
Bear's Bluff Laboratories, 1939, 1945-1977. Consists of correspondence, progress reports, minutes of meetings, and fiscal material. Correspondents include George Robert Lunz, Jr. and H. Jermain Slocum (5 folders)
Box 43
Biological Society of Washington, 1943, 1949, 1953, 1962-1963
Bureau of Fisheries, 1913-1918, 1931, 1934, 1936. Includes correspondence of Robert Ervin Coker and Henry Frank Moore
California Academy of Sciences, 1935-1936, 1962-1967. The correspondence of 1935-1936 concerns Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's application for the position of Director of the Academy. Correspondents include Herbert S. Bryant, Walter Kenrick Fisher, and F. M. MacFarland
California, University of, 1914-1921, 1948-1953. Includes material concerning Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's work toward the M.S. degree, 1914-1916; and the publication of his The Marine Decapod Crustacea of California. (University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 23, pp. 1-470, 1921). Correspondents include Samuel J. Holmes, Charles Atwood Kofoid, and Oliver M. Washburn
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1943-1950
Carnegie Museum, 1945-1956. Includes correspondence of Morris Graham Netting
Central High School, Washington, D. C., 1934, 1943-1947, 1967
Charleston Advisory Board, 1953
Chicago Natural History Museum, 1943-1945, 1949. Includes correspondence of Karl Patterson Schmidt and Loren P. Woods
Children's Museum of Washington, 1943-1951, 1967
Civil Service Commission, 1916, 1923, 1945-1953
Committee on Handbook of Biological Data, 1949-1950, 1955
Committee on Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, 1949-1951. Includes correspondence of Harry Stephen Ladd, Willis Lattanner Tressler, and Robert L. Usinger
The Commonwealth Fund, 1956-1957
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils: Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 1951-1964
Box 44
Cosmos Club. Correspondence, announcements, and financial records, 1941-1977
Cosmos Club. Admissions Committee, 1943-1960, 1969 (4 folders)
Cosmos Club. Nominations, A-F
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Cosmos Club. Nominations, G-L
Cosmos Club. Nominations, M-Z
Cosmos Club. Subcommittee on Associate Privileges, 1953-1954
Cushman Foundation for Foraminifera Research, Inc., 1949-1969. Includes correspondence of Katherine V. W. Palmer and Ruth Todd (2 folders)
Darwin Anniversary Committee, 1956-1958
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1944-1973
Ethnogeographic Board, 1944-1945
Federal Employees Union, 1919, 1958
Fish and Wildlife Service, United States. Correspondence, 1943-1963. Correspondents include William W. Anderson, Paul Simon Galtsoff, Herbert William Graham, Elmer W. Higgins, Leslie W. Scattergood, Victor Blanchard Scheffer, Stewart Springer, Robert O. Smith, and Stillman Wright
Box 46
Fish and Wildlife Service, United States. Memoranda and Reports, 1949-1967
George Washington University, 1918-1922, 1950-1957, 1963, 1967. Includes material concerning Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's work toward the Ph.D. degree, 1922
Group Health Association, Inc., 1943-1948
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon, 1945-1955. Includes correspondence of Henry Allen Moe
Hydrographic Office, 1934, 1943-1948
Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences, 1948-1950
Interior, United States Department of, 1930, 1937, 1939, 1957, 1967
International Biological Program, 1963-1965
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1943-1953. Includes correspondence of Francis Hemming
International Congress of Zoology, 1950-1963
International Oceanographic Foundation, 1949-1956. Also includes material regarding the Marine Laboratory of the University of Miami. Correspondents include F. G. Walton Smith
Box 47
International Oceanographic Foundation, 1957-1975 (4 folders)
Joint Committee on Press Relations, 1947-1949. Includes correspondence of Richard C. Darnell
Journal of Paleontology, 1955-1956. Includes correspondence of Ira E. Cornwall
Library of Congress, 1944-1956, 1964
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McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958-1959, 1967-1969
Marine Borer Panel, 1947-1950
Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1947
University of Michigan Crustacean Collections, 1950-1954. Includes correspondence of Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. and J. Speed Rogers
University of Michigan Press, 1966-1973. Includes correspondence of Elisabeth Case
Naples Zoological Station, 1946-1947, 1955. Includes correspondence of Peter Dohrn and Arturo Palombi
National Academy of Sciences, 1949, 1960, 1965-1967, 1974
National Bureau of Standards, 1947-1952, 1957
National Geographic Society, 1926-1928, 1939, 1943-1959, 1971
National Park Service, 1943-1944
National Research Council. Correspondence, 1934-1969
National Research Council. Circulars, minutes of meetings, reports, and newsletters, 1943-1952 (3 folders)
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National Research Council. Circulars, minutes of meetings, reports, and newsletters, 1953-1960 (7 folders)
Box 50
National Research Council. Circulars, minutes of meetings, reports, and newsletters, 1961-1968
National Research Council. Pacific Science Board, 1944-1958. Includes correspondence of Harold J. Coolidge and Robert Worth Hiatt
National Science Foundation. Correspondence, 1945-1969, 1975. Includes letter of April 7, 1969 concerning Schmitt Mesa
National Science Foundation. Memoranda, 1951-1968
National Science Foundation. Research Grant Proposals, 1956-1961 (2 folders)
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National Science Foundation. Research Grant Proposals, 1962-1969 (2 folders)
Naturalists' Club, 1935-1936
Nature, 1946-1952. Includes correspondence of Edward Alexander Preble
Navy Department, 1946-1954
Office of War Information, 1945
Pacific Science, 1946, 1948, 1953-1954
Paleontological Research Institution, Inc., 1947, 1966, 1975
Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of, 1943, 1954-1955. Includes material concerning the selection of Herbert Friedmann as the recipient of the Leidy Medal Award, 1955
Public Health Service, U.S., 1950-1955
San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1948-1950. Concerns Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's accident in San Francisco, 1948
Science, 1943-1949
Science Clubs of America. National Science Fair, 1947-1949, 1951 (4 folders)
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Science Clubs of America. National Science Fair, 1952-1953, 1955 (3 folders)
Science Service, 1924, 1945-1961. Includes correspondence of Watson Davis
Science Society of Washington, 1945-1946
Seitz Catalogue of Lepidoptera, 1948-1952. Includes correspondence of Andrey Avinoff and Ernst Mayr
Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1949-1954, 1976
Smithsonian Associates, 1965-1976
Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc., 1943-1945
Smithsonian Relief Association, 1912, 1943-1951
Smithsonian Summer Institute of Systematics, 1967
Society for the Study of Evolution, 1946-1950, 1961
Society of Sigma Xi, 1943-1976
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1947-1952, 1970
South African Legation, 1947-1948, 1967
State Department, United States, 1936, 1945-1956
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The Systematics Association, 1965-1976
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, 1924-1941
Washington Academy of Sciences. Correspondence, 1952-1964
Washington Academy of Sciences. Correspondence concerning the Academy's fiftieth anniversary edition of the "Red Book" and the Academy's lecture program, 1946-1948. Correspondents include Albert Einstein (3 folders)
Washington Academy of Sciences. Announcements, minutes of meetings, committee reports, and fiscal material, 1940-1954
Box 54
Washington Academy of Sciences. Announcements, minutes of meetings, committee reports, and fiscal material, 1955-1962
Washington Junior Academy of Sciences, 1948-1954
The White House, 1941-1952. Includes correspondence of Stephen T. Early and William D. Hassett
Wisconsin Junior Academy of Sciences, 1947-1961
Xerox Corporation, 1964-1965
Zoological Society of London, 1936-1954
Zoological Society of San Diego, 1938-1941. Includes correspondence of Belle J. Benchley, Clarence Basil Perkins, Harry M. Wegeforth, and Charles R. Schroeder (2 folders)
Series 3
Antarctic Research Series Files, 1962-1972From 1962 to 1971, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt served on the editorial board for biological manuscripts for the Antarctic Research Series (ARS) of the American Geophysical Union. This series consists of records kept by Schmitt while serving ARS, and includes administrative correspondence, information for authors, and correspondence with authors and reviewers. Also included are copies of manuscripts, abstracts of manuscripts, and grant proposals.
Box 55
Administrative Correspondence and Memoranda, 1962-1972 (2 folders)
Information for Authors
Correspondence with Authors and Reviewers, B-C. Correspondents include Tagea K. S. Bjornberg, Chin Chen, and Helen E. Clark (5 folders)
Box 56
Correspondence with Authors and Reviewers, D-L. Correspondents include Hugh H. DeWitt, J. Linsley Gressitt, Joel Walker Hedgpeth, Frank J. Little, Jr., and T. P. Lowe (13 folders)
Box 57
Correspondence with Authors and Reviewers, M. Correspondents include Helen McCammon, Patricia Kott Mather, and Robert James Menzies (9 folders)
Box 58
Correspondence with Authors and Reviewers, N-Z. Correspondents include William A. Newman, George Carleton Ray, James R. Redmond, David James Rogers, Clyde F. E. Roper, Jay M. Savage, Stewart Springer, Russell W. Strandtman, Donald E. Wohlschlag, and Richard E. Young (18 folders)
Series 4
Explorers Club Files, 1923-1977This series documents Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's association with the Explorers Club, and includes material concerning both the national organization, as well as the Washington, D. C. group. Schmitt was active in the organization of the Washington group of the Explorers Club and served on the steering committee for several years. The material includes correspondence; announcements, programs, financial reports, committee reports, and memoranda; membership lists; and copies of the Explorers Newsletter. Most of the correspondence concerns activities of the Washington group.
Box 59
Correspondence, 1929-1972. Correspondents include Charles Thomas Brues, Herford Tynes Cowling, Neil Douglas, Edward Higbee, Serge Alexander Korff, Mark Lansburgh, A. Robert Leas, John C. Pallister, John Calvin Reed, Finn Ronne, R. Harvey Sargent, Herbert Ferlando Schwarz, Roy Lyman Sexton, Daniel Denison Streeter, Donald B. Upham, Alexander Wetmore, and Townsend Whelan (5 folders)
Announcements, programs, financial reports, committee reports, and memoranda, 1923, 1932-1977 (3 folders)
Membership Lists, 1927-1944, 1968
Explorers Newsletter, 1954-1966
Series 5
Society of Systematic Zoology Files, 1947-1976In 1947, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt and George W. Wharton, Jr. polled taxonomists about the desirability of creating a systematics society. The result was the creation of the Society of Systematic Zoology (SSZ). Schmitt became the first president of the SSZ in 1948. This series documents Schmitt's activity in the SSZ and consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, financial records, committee reports, SSZ newsletters, and the SSZ constitution and by-laws. The founding and early history of the SSZ is fully documented in the correspondence of Richard Eliot Blackwelder, Orlando Park, Alfred S. Romer, and George W. Wharton, Jr.
Box 60
Correspondence, 1947-1965. Correspondents include Robert Tucker Abbott, Richard Eliot Blackwelder, John Langdon Brooks, Lee Raymond Dice, Alfred Edwards Emerson, Wilbur Irving Follett, Eugene Raymond Hall, Carl Leavitt Hubbs, Harold W. Manter, Asbjorn P. Ousdal, Orlando Park, Robert W. Pennak, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Frank Alois Pitelka, Alfred S. Romer, George Gaylord Simpson, Hobart Muir Smith, and George W. Wharton, Jr. (5 folders)
Memoranda, minutes of meetings, election ballots, financial records, and committee reports, 1947-1976 (2 folders)
Newsletter, 1953-1968
Constitution and By-laws
Series 6
Committee on Polar Research Files, 1958-1967From 1960 to 1966, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt served on the Panel on Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Polar Research. This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, committee and project reports, and announcements kept by Schmitt in his capacity as a panel member. Correspondents include George Albert Llano, Herbert Gregory Shepler, and John C. Truesdale.
Box 61
Correspondence, memoranda, committee and project reports, minutes of meetings, and announcements, 1958-1961 (5 folders)
Box 62
Correspondence, memoranda, committee and project reports, minutes of meetings, and announcements, 1962-1967 (6 folders)
Series 7
Diaries and Miscellaneous Notebooks, 1920-1971This series consists of diaries and notebooks kept by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Diary entries mostly concern appointments, United States National Museum business, museum colleagues, and contain miscellaneous jottings. Notes kept by Schmitt on expeditions are included in a few of the diaries. The notebooks contain miscellaneous material, ranging from views on politics to comments on colleagues.
Box 63
Diaries, 1935-1940, 1943-1949. The diary of 1935 includes notes and station data kept by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt on the Hancock Galapagos Expedition, 1935; the 1937 diary contains notes made on the Hartford-Smithsonian West Indies Expedition, 1937; the diary of 1940 includes notes made on the Alaska King Crab Investigation, 1940
Box 64
Diaries, 1950-1953, 1955-1959, 1961-1965. The diaries of 1956, 1958, and 1959 contain notes on the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions conducted in those years; the 1957 diary includes notes made on the Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition, 1957; the diary for 1961 includes notes concerning an underwater photography trip to the Bahamas with Harry Pederson, 1961
Box 65
Diaries, 1966, 1970-1971
Miscellaneous Notebooks, 1920-1923, 1928-1929, 1942-1943
Box 66
Miscellaneous Notebooks, undated. Included are notebooks containing comments on Alexander Wetmore and A. Remington Kellogg
Series 8
Records Concerning the Publication of Crustaceans, 1960-1976In 1965, the University of Michigan Press published a revised edition of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's Crustaceans as part of the Ann Arbor Science Paperback Series. The work was originally published in 1931 as a volume of the Smithsonian Scientific Series. This series consists of correspondence with the University of Michigan Press concerning the publication of the revised edition of Crustaceans, 1960-1974; correspondence from scientists and friends acknowledging receipt of complimentary copies of Crustaceans, 1966-1967; memorandum of agreement between Schmitt and the University of Michigan Press, 1965; royalty reports, 1967-1976; reviews of Crustaceans, 1966-1967; manuscripts and a reader's proof; miscellaneous notes and publications on crustacea; and photographs and drawings.
Box 67
Correspondence, 1960-1974, and undated. Includes correspondence of Elisabeth Case (2 folders)
Correspondence acknowledging the receipt of complimentary copies of Crustaceans, 1966-1967
Memorandum of Agreement between the University of Michigan Press and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt for the publication of Crustaceans, May 3, 1965
Royalty reports, 1967-1976
Receipts for copies of Crustaceans purchased by Schmitt
Reviews of Crustaceans
Reader's Proof
Manuscript, 1964 edition
Box 68
Manuscript, 1931 edition
Miscellaneous notes and publications on crustacea (11 folders)
Box 69
Miscellaneous notes and publications on crustacea (14 folders)
Box 70
Miscellaneous notes and publications on crustacea (13 folders)
Box 71
Photographs and Drawings (2 folders)
Series 9
"The American Commensal Crabs of the Family Pinnotheridae," Correspondence and Research Material, 1962-1971From 1963 to 1968, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt worked on a monographic account of "The American Commensal Crabs of the Family Pinnotheridae," supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (GB-443). In 1968, the grant was terminated and the project was never completed. Schmitt was assisted on the project by John C. McCain and Edward S. Davidson. This series consists of correspondence with the National Science Foundation concerning the project; correspondence with museums regarding Pinnotheridae type specimens; correspondence with and of Edward S. Davidson; financial statements; and miscellaneous research notes.
Box 71
Correspondence, 1962-1970. Mostly with the National Science Foundation concerning grant no. GB-443
Correspondence with museums regarding Pinnotheridae type specimens, 1968-1971. Most of the correspondence is directed to Edward S. Davidson
Correspondence, Edward S. Davidson, 1965-1970
Financial Statements, 1967-1969
Draft of introduction and index for the Pinnotherid section of the Gruner-Holthuis Crustaceorum Catalogus, by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, John C. McCain, and Edward S. Davidson
Miscellaneous research notes (3 folders)
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Miscellaneous research notes (2 folders)
Series 10
Correspondence, Newspaper Articles, Manuscripts, and Related Material Concerning Washington, D.C. Traffic Problems, 1938-1965In 1938, the Washington Daily News published an article by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt in which he outlined his solution to Washington, D.C. transit problems. Schmitt was an advocate of a commuter railroad surrounding the metropolitan area and he continued to express his views in the press and at public hearings. In November 1959, he addressed the District Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on the improvement of commuter service. This series consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newspaper articles, manuscripts, public hearing statements, and notes concerning Washington, D.C. traffic problems.
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Correspondence, 1938-1965. Correspondents include John T. O'Rourke of the Washington Daily News
Newspaper Clippings, 1938, 1941, 1958-1959
Newspaper Article: "Wake Up, Railroad. A solution to Washington's Traffic Problem or the Answer to the Commuter's Prayer," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, Washington Daily News, Monday, February 28, 1938
Newspaper Article: "What Do You Think of this, Mr. Motorist?", by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, Washington Daily News, Friday, November 7, 1941. Includes photographs used in article
Manuscript: "Get Busy Washington! Arguments for and against a Mall Subway," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Manuscript: "A Layman's Review of National Capital Transportation," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Manuscript: "Washington's Transit and Traffic Problems," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1964
Statement of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt given at a hearing before the District Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, November 14, 1959
Statement of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt given at a hearing at Silver Spring, Maryland, July 23, 1965. Concerns Schmitt's opposition to the National Capital Transportation Agency subway bill
Notes regarding Washington, D.C. traffic problems
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Notes regarding Washington, D.C. traffic problems
Series 11
Manuscripts, Speeches, and Publications, 1919-1964This series consists of manuscripts, notes used in the preparation of manuscripts, texts of speeches, and publications of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Other manuscripts and publications can be found in Series 8, 10, and 15.
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"The Schizopod Crustaceans of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918." Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, vol. 7, pt. b, pp. 1-8, 1919. Typed copy of paper, drawings, and notes
"List of Macrura and Anomura from the 1921 Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, vol. 13, no. 24, pp. 381-388, 1924. Typed copy of paper
"Chinese Stomatopods collected by S. F. Light." Lingnan Science Journal, vol. 8, pp. 127-148, 1929. Typed copy of paper and notes
"The Crustacea of Beaufort, North Carolina," co-authored with Clarence R. Shoemaker. Exploration and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1928, pp. 85-88, 1929
"The Study of Scientific Material in the Museum." The Museum News, 3 pp., December 15, 1930. (Also a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums, Buffalo, New York, June 4, 1930)
"Crustacea Macrura and Anomura of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands." New York Academy of Sciences Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 15, pt. 2, pp. 125-227, 1935. Page proof and notes
"Chronology of the U. S. Fisheries Steamer Albatross." Appendix A in Hedgpeth, Joel W., "The United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross." The American Neptune, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 15-26, 1945
"A Collection of Shrimps from Santa Cruz Island, California," by Willis Gilliland Hewatt. Review by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Ecological Monographs, vol. 16, pp. 208-210, 1946. Typed copy of paper
"The Sun and the Harvest of the Sea." Smithsonian Report for 1946, pp. 295-314, 1947 (reprinted in 1965). Reprint and plates
"Knowledge and the Zest of Life." Text of a speech presented by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt at the inauguration of Lewis Webster Jones as President of Rutgers University, May 8, 1952
"Applied Systematics: The Usefulness of Scientific Names of Animals and Plants." Smithsonian Report for 1953, pp. 323-337, 1954. Reprint
"Leonhard Stejneger." Systematic Zoology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 243-249, 1964
"A new Freshwater Crab from Colombia, Trichodoctylus (Dilocarcinus) niceforoi." unpublished
"Thomas Jefferson Memorial." unpublished
Series 12
Mary Jane Rathbun Biographical Material, 1925-1973This series consists of biographical material on Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943) compiled by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Most of the material appears to have been gathered as part of Schmitt's research for "Mary Jane Rathbun, 1860-1943" (Crustaceana, vol. 24, pt. 3, 1973) and includes correspondence; biographies and bibliographies; obituaries and newspaper articles; a copy of a handwritten memoir by Mary Jane Rathbun; and research notes.
Box 73
Correspondence, 1925-1927, 1930, 1937, 1964-1965, 1970-1971. Includes correspondence with Frederic Augustus Lucas and Charles D. Walcott concerning efforts by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt to nominate Mary Jane Rathbun for the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, 1925-1927. Also contains correspondence regarding a biography of Rathbun by Schmitt for Notable American Women, 1607-1950, 1964-1965, 1971
Biographies. Includes proof copy of Schmitt's "Mary Jane Rathbun, 1860-1943." Crustaceana, vol. 24, pt. 3, 1973
Copy of handwritten memoir by Mary Jane Rathbun
Obituaries and Newspaper Articles
Box 74
Bibliography of Mary Jane Rathbun
Material regarding a dinner in honor of Mary Jane Rathbun on her 75th birthday, 1935
Miscellaneous notes on Mary Jane Rathbun
Series 13
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Photographs, Newspaper Clippings and Related Material Concerning Robert A. Bartlett and the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions, 1928-1947Beginning in the mid-1920's, Robert A. Bartlett (1876-1946) collected zoological specimens for the United States National Museum (USNM) on his many expeditions to the Arctic. This series consists of material, compiled by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, documenting Bartlett's association with the USNM and includes correspondence between Bartlett and Schmitt concerning the Arctic expeditions and collections made; newspaper clippings; manuscripts and reports on the expeditions; photographs; and correspondence with biologists, reprints, and research material concerning the collections made by the Bartlett expeditions.
Box 74
Correspondence between Robert A. Bartlett and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1928-1947
Newspaper clippings. Mostly concerning the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions (2 folders)
"Norcross-Bartlett Expeditions, 1933." Draft of paper which appeared in Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1933
"Greenland Expedition of 1936." Draft of paper which appeared in Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1936
"Greenland Expedition of 1937." Handwritten report by Robert A. Bartlett
"Greenland Expedition of 1939." Draft of paper which appeared in Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1939
Norcross-Bartlett Expedition, 1933. Photographs - unidentified
Greenland Expedition of 1936. Photographs - unidentified
Greenland Expedition of 1937. Photographs - some identified
Cruise to Northwest Greenland, 1938. Photographs - identified
Greenland Expedition of 1939. Photographs - identified
Miscellaneous Photographs
Cruise to Northwest Greenland, 1938. "Report on the Scientific Collecting done in Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic, with Field Notes," by David C. Nutt
Greenland Expedition of 1939. "Report of the Scientific Collecting done in Newfoundland and Greenland," by David C. Nutt
Correspondence, reprints, and notes on the zoological collections made on the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions. Correspondents include Paul Bartsch, Joseph A. Cushman, Maurice C. Hall, John Percy Moore, David C. Nutt, Raymond Carroll Osburn, Willard G. Van Name, Alexander Wetmore, Charles Branch Wilson, Carl Zimmer, and John T. Zimmer (7 folders)
Box 75
Correspondence, reprints, and notes on the zoological collections made on the Bartlett Arctic Expeditions. Correspondents include Paul Bartsch, Joseph A. Cushman, Maurice C. Hall, John Percy Moore, David C. Nutt, Raymond Carroll Osburn, Willard G. Van Name, Alexander Wetmore, Charles Branch Wilson, Carl Zimmer, and John T. Zimmer (15 folders)
Series 14
Oral History Interview, 1976This series contains a transcript of an oral history interview of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt conducted by the Oral History Department of Texas A & M University on June 16, 1976. The transcript is in rough form and many names and subjects are misspelled.
Box 75
Transcript of oral history interview of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, June 16, 1976
Series 15
Expedition Files, 1911-1963This series contains material documenting Waldo LaSalle Schmitt's career as a field worker and scientific expedition member. The material includes diaries; correspondence; station data and field notes; manuscripts, reprints, and publications; reports; newspaper clippings; expense accounts and other financial records; photographs; maps; miscellaneous notes; and memorabilia collected by Schmitt. The material is arranged chronologically by expedition. For other material concerning Schmitt's participation on expeditions see Series 1, 7, 14, 16, and 17.
Box 75
Official Diaries, 1911-1914. Includes data kept on the Lower California Cruise of the Albatross, 1911; Chignik (Alaska) Biological Survey, 1911; Biological Survey of San Francisco Bay, 1912-1914; the Halibut Survey of Washington and Oregon, 1914; and the Olympia Oyster Bed Survey, 1914. Data concerns the operation of the surveys, collections made, weather conditions, and topographical material
Official Diaries, 1912-1914. Typed excerpts
Personal Diaries, 1911. Kept by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt on the Lower California Cruise of the Albatross, February 28, 1911-May 9, 1911 (pp. 3-176) and the Chignik (Alaska) Biological Survey, May 17, 1911-September 11, 1911 (pp. 177-185). Original diary and typed copy (2 folders)
Correspondence, 1911-1914, concerning the Lower California Cruise of the Albatross, 1911; the Chignik (Alaska) Biological Survey, 1911, and the Biological Survey of San Francisco Bay, 1912-1914. Correspondents include Charles Lincoln Edwards, Francis Bertody Sumner, and the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
List of Daily Expenditures, 1912-1914
Box 76
Biological Survey of San Francisco Bay, 1912-1914. Notes, data on collections made, and maps
Halibut Survey of Washington and Oregon, 1914
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of John N. Cobb, Edward Driscoll, Trevor Kincaid, and J. Playfair McMurrich
Notes and newspaper clippings. (bound volume)
Report on the results of the survey by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Map of the Oregon Halibut Banks
Receipts for supplies
Notes on weather conditions, scallop trials, fish caught, and whales sighted
"Survey of the Fishing Grounds on the Coasts of Washington and Oregon in 1914," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, Edward C. Johnston, Edward P. Rankin, and Edward Driscoll. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 817
United States Bureau of Fisheries, Spiny Lobster Investigation, 1918
Correspondence with Paul Bartsch
Expense account and travel voucher
Reports on investigation by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Tortugas Laboratory Trips, 1924-1925
Correspondence, 1924. Includes correspondence of William Harding Longley
Correspondence, 1925. Includes correspondence of William Harding Longley and John C. Merriam
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the East Coast of South America, 1925-1926
Diary, volume 1, July 29-September 9, 1925
Diary, volume 2, September 10-October 22, 1925
Box 77
Diary, volume 3, October 27, 1925-February 1, 1926
Diary, longhand copy of original, July 29-December 17, 1925
Station Data, stations 1-82, August 17-December 25, 1925. Consists of notes on specimens collected (2 folders)
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the West Coast of South America, 1926-1927
Diary, volume 1, August 16-October 19, 1926
Diary, volume 2, October 19-November 23, 1926
Box 78
Diary, volume 3, November 27, 1926-January 16, 1927
Diary, volume 4, January 16-March 9, 1927
Diary, volume 5, March 9-June 6, 1927
Diary, typed copy, August 16, 1926-June 1, 1927 (2 folders)
Station Data, stations 1-127, August 29, 1926-May 18, 1927 (2 folders)
Chronology of expedition, August 1926-May 1927
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927
Station Data, typed copy
Correspondence, 1925-1930. "A - R." Consists of letters of introduction; communications with American Ambassadors in South American countries; and correspondence with South American scientists and U. S. National Museum officials concerning preparation for and progress of the expeditions. Correspondents include Charles G. Abbot, Florentino Felippone, Hermann Luederwaldt, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Carlos Moreira, Miles Poindexter, and L. S. Rowe
Box 79
Correspondence, 1925-1930. "S-Z." Correspondents include Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), Clarence R. Shoemaker, Ronald D. Stevenson, R. Thomsen, Juan Tremoleras, and Alexander Wetmore
Expense accounts and receipts
Newspaper clippings (2 folders)
Reports on the expeditions by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Manuscript. "The Study of the Crustaceans of South America," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 89-93, 1927
"A Voyage to the Island Home of Robinson Crusoe," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. National Geographic, vol. LIV, no. 3, pp. 363-370, September, 1928
Maps of South America
Miscellaneous notes (2 folders)
Box 80
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt in South America. Includes hotel advertisements, menus, guide books, and similar materials (6 folders)
Photographs of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Photographs identified by list contained in following folder (4 folders)
List of photographs found in previous four folders
Box 81
Photographs of Brazil (2 folders)
Photographs of Chile
Photographs of Ecuador
Photographs of the Falkland Islands (3 folders)
Photographs of the Juan Fernandez Islands (3 folders)
Box 82
Photographs of the Juan Fernandez Islands (3 folders)
Photographs of Peru
Photographs of Uruguay
Miscellaneous photographs (2 folders)
Box 83
Miscellaneous photographs (2 folders)
Postcards, some with handwritten notes (4 folders)
Box 84
Photographs: Identified
Box 85
Tortugas Laboratory Trips, 1930-1932
Correspondence, 1930
Correspondence, 1931
Diary, August 2-9, 1931
Correspondence, 1932
Miscellaneous notes, 1930-1932
Photographs and photographic records, 1930-1932 (2 folders)
Bill of Lading and Shipping Invoice
"Some Observations on the Crustacea of Tortugas, Florida," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Carnegie Institution Year Book, no. 29, pp. 343-346, 1929-1930
"Some Carcinological Results of the Deeper Water Trawlings of the Anton Dohrn, including descriptions of two new species of Crustacea," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Annual Report of Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institution Year Book, no. 30, pp. 389-391, 1930-1931
"Crustacea of the Tortugas Region," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Carnegie Institution Year Book, no. 31, pp. 288-289, 1931-1932
"Observations on Marine Life at Tortugas, Florida," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
"Remarks on Underwater Motion Pictures," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition, 1933
Diary, January 6-February 8, 1933. Original (two volumes) and typed copy (3 folders)
"Hancock Galapagos Expedition, 1933," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1933
Box 86
General Accounts by John Shrader Garth
General Report by George Hugh Banning. Bulletin of the Zoological Society of San Diego, no. 10, May, 1933
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition, 1934
Diary, December 24, 1933-March 10, 1934. Original (two volumes) and typed copy. Pages 1-111 of volume 2 contain station data (3 folders)
"Hancock Galapagos Expedition, 1934," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1934
Water temperature and salinity data gathered by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Published in Dynamic Oceanographic Data, U. S. Navy, pp. 39-52, 1934
"The Voyage of the Velero III, 1933-1934," by Charles McLean Fraser
"Third Galapagos Trip of the Velero III in the Winter of 1933-1934," by Edwin O. Palmer
Reports by Scientists on Collections Made
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expedition, 1935
Diary, 2 volumes, November 23, 1934-February 20, 1935. Index of volume 1 contains station data (2 folders)
Box 87
Diary, November 23, 1934-February 20, 1935. Typed copy
"Hancock Pacific Expedition, 1935," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1935
"The Hancock Expedition of 1935 to the Bird Islands of Peru," by John Shrader Garth. The Condor, vol. XXXIX, pp. 3-8, January-February 1937
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935
Correspondence. Correspondents include Herbert S. Bryant, Lucile McCain, W. Charles Swett, William Randolph Taylor, Alexander Wetmore, and Fred C. Ziesenhenne
Travel vouchers and bills of lading
Newspaper clippings. Mostly concerns the Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner Wehrborn and her fellow utopian colonists on the Island of Floreana in the Galapagos (2 folders)
"The Galapagos Islands One Hundred Years after Darwin," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Nature, vol. 26, no. 5., pp. 265-271, 1935. Includes manuscript, page proof, and a copy of the magazine article (2 folders)
Box 88
"Adam and Eve in the Galapagos," by Frederick Karl Ritter. Atlantic Monthly, October, 1931
Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, April-June, 1936. Contains excerpts from "Satan Came to Eden," by Dore Strauch Koerwein
Liberty, October 30-December 4, 1937. Contains a serial on the utopian colonists of Floreana Island
Real Detective, March-May 1935 and Detective Tabloid, March 1935. Articles on the utopian colonists of Floreana Island
Miscellaneous memorabilia (2 folders)
Photographs of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Photographs by Charles McLean Fraser. Includes identifying list
Photographs by Robert Irwin
Photographs by Harold W. Manter taken on the 1934 expedition
Box 89
Photographs by William Randolph Taylor taken on 1934 expedition
Photographs of the Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner Wehrborn, Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, and Robert Phillipson
Photographs of Heinz and Margret Wittmer and family
Photographs of Frederick Karl Ritter and Dore Strauch Koerwin
Photographs of Galapagos Tortoises
Miscellaneous photographs (2 folders)
Box 90
Miscellaneous photographs (6 folders)
Box 91
Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition, 1937
Diary, March 3-May 12, 1937. Original (two volumes) and typed copy (3 folders)
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of G. Huntington Hartford, Lucile McCain, and Alexander Wetmore
Travel vouchers, receipts, and shipping invoices
Newspaper clippings
"The Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition to the West Indies, 1937," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1937
Miscellaneous notes
Box 92
Photographs of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Photographs - Barbados
Photographs - Dominica
Photographs - Haiti
Photographs - Havana, Cuba
Photographs - Martinique
Photographs - Nassau, Bahamas
Photographs - Puerto Rico
Photographs - Saba
Photographs - St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (3 folders)
Photographs - San Salvador
Photographs - Tortuga
Miscellaneous photographs
Box 93
Miscellaneous photographs (5 folders)
Box 94
Presidential Cruise of 1938
Diary, July 14-August 11, 1938. Also includes newspaper clippings
Station Data. Typed copy
Correspondence. Correspondents include Lucile McCain, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Alexander Wetmore
Expense account
Reports on Cruise by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
"Decapod and other Crustacea Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 1-29, 1939
"Annotated List of Fishes, Presidential Cruise, 1938," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Appendix to the Log of the Cruise, 1938, by Captain D. J. Callahan, U. S. N.
Newspaper clippings (see also first folder in box)
Notes, papers, memoranda, and related materials regarding the scientific results of the cruise (2 folders)
Box 95
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (2 folders)
Photographs (2 folders)
Hancock South America Expedition, 1939
Diary, March 16-May 6, 1939. Original and an incomplete typed copy (2 folders)
Box 96
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of Lucile McCain, Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), and Alexander Wetmore
Expense account, receipts, shipping invoices and bills of lading
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Miscellaneous notes
Photographs (6 folders)
Box 97
Alaska King Crab Investigation, 1940
Diary, August 28-December 8, 1940. Includes original diary, plus carbon and typed copies (3 folders)
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of Roger W. Harrison, Lucile McCain, C. J. Pertuit, Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), Alexander Wetmore, and Frank Walter Weymouth (2 folders)
Expense account and receipts
Newspaper clippings and Department of Interior press releases
"Alaska King Crab Investigations, 1940" by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1940
Manuscript on the investigation. Unpublished
Text of speech on the investigation presented by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt in South America in 1943
Box 98
Publications regarding the investigation and the Alaska King Crab
Maps
Miscellaneous notes (4 folders)
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Box 99
Photographs (4 folders)
Postcards
Box 100
United States Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1941
Diary, April 2-28, 1941. Typed copy
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of John Enos Graf, Lucile McCain, and Alexander Wetmore
Expense account and travel voucher
Miscellaneous notes (3 folders)
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
United States Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1942
Diary, June 8-July 2, 1942
Expense account and travel vouchers
Miscellaneous notes
State Department Trip to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, 1943
Diary, April 12-May 20, 1943. (The trip ended June 30, 1943. Diary of May 21-June 30, 1943 is missing)
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of Charles G. Abbot, Martin Doello-Jurado, A. Remington Kellogg, Lucile McCain, Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), and Alexander Wetmore
Excerpts from letters of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt to Lucile McCain and Alexander Wetmore
Expense account, travel vouchers, and receipts
"Summary of Trip of Waldo L. Schmitt to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina under auspices of Division of Cultural Relations, U. S. Department of State, March 25 to June 30, 1943"
Report on trip submitted to Alexander Wetmore
Box 101
Texts of speeches made by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt in South America (texts are written in Spanish)
Newspaper clippings. Mostly from South American newspapers
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (3 folders)
Photographs of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Miscellaneous photographs (3 folders)
Box 102
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955
Diary, March 26-June 17, 1955
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of J. Bruce Bredin, Virginia Beets, Leonard Carmichael, James P. Chapin, A. Remington Kellogg, Lucile McCain, Robert G. McGregor, Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), Roy Lyman Sexton, Roy Lyman Sexton, Jr., Eric P. Thornton-Daily, Victor Van Straelen, and Helena Weiss (4 folders)
Expense account and receipts
Itineraries
Box 103
Equipment lists
Newspaper clippings and press releases
Draft of manuscript on expedition by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
Report on invertebrate collections
Maps
Data on 35mm and motion pictures taken
List of and notes on soil samples collected
Box 104
Miscellaneous notes (4 folders)
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (3 folders)
Box 105
Miscellaneous memorabilia collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (2 folders)
Photograph album, black and white photographs, and color prints (5 folders)
Box 106
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1956
Diary, March 2-April 18, 1956
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of J. Bruce Bredin, Leonard Carmichael, A. Remington Kellogg, and V. E. B. Nicholson
Station Data
Expense account and receipts
Equipment lists, packing lists, and material regarding collecting outfits
"A Narrative of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1956," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. The Smithsonian Report for 1956, pp. 443-460
List of soil samples collected
Maps
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Data on film shot
Photographs (2 folders)
Box 107
Photographs (3 folders)
Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition, 1957
Diary, April 4-May 9, 1957
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of J. Bruce Bredin, Leonard Carmichael, James McConnaughey, and John E. Randall
Station Data
Expense account and receipts
Box 108
Manuscript on expedition by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
List of soil samples collected
Journal of Yacht Mareva
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Photographs and color prints (2 folders)
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958
Diary, March 21-May 2, 1958
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of J. Bruce Bredin, Fenner A. Chace, Jr., C. John Finlay, Desmond V. Nicholson, Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle), and Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
Station Data
Expense account, receipts, purchase orders, and bills of lading
Equipment list
"Narrative of the 1958 Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. The Smithsonian Report for 1958
Box 109
"A letter from Dr. Carl N. Shuster, Jr. during the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958." Reprinted from the Estuarine Bulletin, June 1958
Notes from the Diary of Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
"Field Observations of Vascum (Globivasum) Globulus Nulting," by Carl N. Shuster, Jr. and William T. Bode. Manuscript and reprint from The Nautilas, vol. 75, no. 1, July 1961
"Zoology: Three New Cave Amphipods from the West Indies," by Clarence R. Shoemaker. Reprint from Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 49, no. 8, August-September 1959
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Photographs
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1959
Diary, April 10-May 2, 1959
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of William H. Amos, J. Bruce Bredin, Leonard Carmichael, Richard Sumner Cowan, Richard F. Darsie, Jr., C. John Finlay, Desmond V. Nicholson, and Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle)
Station Data
Expense accounts and receipts
Purchase orders, bills of lading, shipping invoices, and packing lists
Newspaper clippings
Box 110
Manuscript. "The 1959 Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
Draft of speech "The 1959 Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition," by Richard Sumner Cowan
Diary of Richard F. Darsie, Jr.
Miscellaneous notes
Photographs (2 folders)
Photograph lists
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960
Correspondence. Includes correspondence of J. Bruce Bredin, Tom Burnett, Leonard Carmichael, Franklin Carl Daiber, and Desmond V. Nicholson (2 folders)
Station Data
Expense accounts and receipts
Equipment lists
Box 111
Maps
Manuscript. "The Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
Manuscript. "The 1960 Smithsonian-Bredin Mayaland Expedition," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Unpublished
"Mangroves. The Tidal Marshes of the Tropics" by Franklin C. Daiber. Estuarine Bulletin, University of Delaware, Summer, 1960
"The Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition to Yucatan," by Edward Lloyd Bousfield
Miscellaneous notes (2 folders)
Black and white photographs and color prints. Some identified (3 folders)
Box 112
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions, 1956, 1958-1960 and Society Islands Expedition, 1957
Photographs of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Miscellaneous photographs (5 folders)
"The Shrimps of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions with a Summary of the West Indian Shallow-Water Species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia)," by Fenner A. Chace, Jr. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 98, 1972
Box 113
Palmer Peninsula (Antarctica) Survey, 1962-1963
Diary, November 24, 1962-March 10, 1963. Two volumes. Includes expense account, meteorological data, notes, and copies of letters to Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle) (2 folders)
Correspondence, 1962-1966. Includes correspondence of Fenner A. Chace, Jr. and Alvina S. Schmitt (Mrs. Waldo LaSalle)
Station Data
Expense account and receipts
"Biological Investigations: Palmer Peninsula and South Shetland Islands," by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. A report submitted to U. S. Antarctic Research Program
Miscellaneous notes (2 folders)
Box 114
Miscellaneous notes (4 folders)
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Photographs
Series 16
Records Concerning Underwater Photography Field Work of Harry Pederson and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1960-1966In 1961, the Office of Naval Research approved a proposal by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt and Harry Pederson to conduct cinematographically documented studies of the behavior of animals indigenous to coral reefs. The studies were conducted in the Clifton Bay area at the western end of New Providence Island, Bahamas and continued through 1964. Schmitt actively participated in the field work during 1961 and 1962. This series consists of correspondence with the Office of Naval Research, Smithsonian administrators, and Harry Pederson concerning ONR contract nonr-1354 (10) and the progress of the study; field notes of Harry Pederson; fiscal records; contract proposals; photographs; and miscellaneous notes.
Box 115
Correspondence, 1960-1965 (5 folders)
Field notes of Harry Pederson, 1961
Field notes of Harry Pederson, 1964
Contract Proposals
Expense accounts, receipts, and purchase orders, 1961-1964
Photographs
Miscellany
Series 17
Photographs, Slides, Movies, Lantern Slides, and Tape Recordings, circa 1924-1978This series consists mostly of photographic materials taken and collected by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Included are photographs, slides, movies, and lantern slides. The photographs are mostly of people, including several of Schmitt. Of special interest are early underwater photographs taken by William Harding Longley at Tortugas, Florida in the 1920's. The movies and most of the 35mm and lantern slides were made by Schmitt and others on scientific expeditions. Also included are tape recordings made on the Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955 and of the "Remembrance to Waldo LaSalle Schmitt," March, 1978. Other photographs can be found in the expedition files, Series 15.
Box 116
Photographs
Allen, Paul Hamilton
Balss, Heinrich, 1955. Includes photographs of Balss and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt
Banks, Nathan
Barro Colorado Island, 1934
Bartsch, Paul
Bear's Bluff Laboratories, 1968. Includes photographs of George Robert Lunz, Jr.
Beaufort, North Carolina, 1928
Chace, Fenner A., Jr.
Choola, Luang, 1928
Clark, Austin H.
Clipperton Island
Cochran, Doris Mable
Corals (2 folders)
Cottam, Clarence
Cushman, Joseph A.
Dall, William H.
Department of Zoology. Staff photograph
Division of Marine Invertebrates. Staff photograph
Europe, 1960
Exhibits
Felippone, Florentino
Gannett, Mary T. L.
Green, Malcolm
Hancock, G. Allen
Hancock, Helen L.
Hancock Foundation. Includes photographs of the Velero III
Hedgpeth, Joel Walker
Iguanas
Killip, Ellsworth Paine
Longley, William Harding
McCain, Lucile
Maloney, James O., 1928
Marcus, Ernesto
Miller, Gerrit Smith, Jr.
New Zealand, 1962
Pearse, Arthur Sperry
Porter, Carlos E.
Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology. Exhibit photographs
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Portraits
Box 117
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Miscellaneous photographs
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with Richard Eliot Blackwelder
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with Charles G. Abbot and Leonard Carmichael
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with Thomas E. Bowman
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with Mary Jane Rathbun
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with F. G. Walton Smith
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, with A. Remington Kellogg, Clarence R. Shoemaker, and unidentified man and woman
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Retirement party, 1957
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Trip to Weems, Virginia with Reginald Van Trump Truitt
Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle. Views of his home and of Takoma Park, Maryland
Schmitt Mesa
Secas Islands
Setzler, Frank M.
Shoemaker, Clarence R.
Skogsberg, Tage
Specimens
Sponges
Stejneger, Leonhard
Teague, Gerard W.
U. S. S. Chivo
U. S. S. Hassler
Underwater photographs of fishes taken by William Harding Longley at Tortugas, Florida (3 folders)
Box 118
Underwater photographs of fishes taken by William Harding Longley at Tortugas, Florida (2 folders)
Vaughan, T. Wayland
Walker, Egbert Hamilton, 1960
Washington Academy of Sciences. Portraits of members (3 folders)
Washington, Charles Sumner
Wilson, Charles Branch
Wilson, Mildred S.
Zetek, James
Miscellaneous Photographs - People (2 folders)
Box 119
Miscellaneous Photographs (2 folders)
Box 120
Slides
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935. Black and White slides
Presidential Cruise of 1938. Color slides
Box 121
Color Slides
Presidential Cruise of 1938
Hancock South America Expedition, 1939
Box 122
Alaska King Crab Investigation, 1940
Box 123
Alaska King Crab Investigation, 1940
U. S. Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1941
Box 124
U. S. Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1941
Box 125
U. S. Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1941
U. S. Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1942
U. S. State Department trip to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, 1943
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955
Boxes 126-132
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955
Box 133
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1956
Box 134
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1956
Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition, 1957
Box 135
Smithsonian-Bredin Society Islands Expedition, 1957
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958
Box 136
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1959
Box 137
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1959
Box 138
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1959
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960
Box 139
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960
Underwater Photography Field Work with Harry Pederson, 1961-1962
Palmer Peninsula Survey, 1962-1963
Box 140
Palmer Peninsula Survey, 1962-1963
Box 141
Palmer Peninsula Survey, 1962-1963
Miscellaneous slides
Box 142
Films
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958, Carl N. Shuster, Jr. Reels 1-2, 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958, Carl N. Shuster, Jr. Reels 3-4, 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958, Carl N. Shuster, Jr. Reels 5-6, 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958, Carl N. Shuster, Jr. Reels 7-8, 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1958, Carl N. Shuster, Jr. Reels 9-10, 16mm color film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Elephant Seals," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation, 16mm b/w film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Catching porpoises," 16mm b/w film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Galapagos," by David Lack, 16mm b/w film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, discovery of the bodies of Alfred Rudolf Lorenz and Trygve Nuggerud on Marchena Island, 35mm b/w film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Birth of a Seal," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation, 16mm b/w film (Removed and placed in freezer, 4/8/2002)
Tortugas field work, dredging, reel #2, 35mm b/w film
Tortugas field work, underwater, reel #3, 35mm b/w film
Tahiti, Wilding Anthony, 16mm color film
Man at desk, 16mm color film
Caves, 16mm color film
Boy snowballing, 16mm color film
Fish sequence, Sullows Museum, Congo, 16mm color film
Unidentified, 16mm color film
Box 143
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "To Tropic Seas Aboard Velero," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation, 16mm b/w film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #7; 16mm color film
Box 144
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #9 (Juba to Cairo); 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #20; 16mm color film
Box 145
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #22; 16mm color film
Box 146
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #1; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #2; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #3; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Nile sunset to Luxor temple; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Kosti to Deluca before sunset; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Wingo-Agriculture, shots outside and inside of USMN and SI; Master; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Tungimika series; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Tungimika; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Roadside dancers and thumb instrument; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Pygmies; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; On Sudan Nile, ends in Cairo; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Arkosri Bridge/Road thru mountains after Astridu; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Manghet dances, long shots; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Schmitt at the Temple of Hutshepsut; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Right after Barbare; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Butents village; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Karnak and Explorer's Club flag; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Leaving Sabena guest house?; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Black palm nuts; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Tang crabs in dish; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Equator N/S; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Weaver bird nests in tree, Stanley ville; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Egypt, taken out of dup. Karnak, temples, etc; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Removed out, rideout sug. Seshum, Nov. 15, 1956; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Rideout #2; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Rideout removed, Nov. 14, 1956; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Part of Nile trip taken off to shorten film; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Last discards, reels 1 & 2; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Last discards, reels 3 & 4; 16mm color film
Box 147
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #4; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #5; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel #10 (Garamba Park); 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; #2 Wagma Falls; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Leo to Cairo; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Watusi dancers; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; #1 leopard, Congo River; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Unidentified; 16mm color film (6 reels)
Box 148
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Unidentified; 16mm color film (8 reels)
Smithsonian-Bredin Society Island Expedition, 1957; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960; 16mm color film
Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition, 1960; Sequence: 1) Anemone gigante, 2) Boxer shrimp, 3) Anulata and snapping shrimp, 4) Pederson, 5) Vulatahicus, 6) Stomatopod, 7) Octopus-Moray, 8) Nassau grouper-Moray, 9) Fierasfer; 16mm color film
Yucatan trims, 16mm color film
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, #8 "To Tropic Seas Aboard Velero," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; May 26, 1995; 48:00 minutes
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, #8 "To Tropic Seas Aboard Velero," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; May 26, 1995; 48:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Tape #1, reels 9-11; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; August, 23, 1995; 62:00 minutes
Box 149
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 12, 13, 19; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; August 23, 1995; 32:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 18, 20; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; July 6, 1995; 61:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 14-15; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; July 6, 1995; 50:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 16-17; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; July 6, 1995; 53:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel 23; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; July 6, 1995; 53:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel 24; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; July 6, 1995; 28:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Tape #1, reels 9-11; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; August, 23, 1995; 62:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 12, 13, 19; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; August 23, 1995; 32:00 minutes
Box 150
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 14-15; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; July 6, 1995; 50:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 16-17; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; July 6, 1995; 53:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reels 18, 20; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; July 6, 1995; 61:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel 24; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; July 6, 1995; 28:00 minutes
Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955; Reel 23; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; July 6, 1995; 53:00 minutes
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Galapagos," by David Lack; Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Catching porpoises;" Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, discovery of the bodies of Alfred Rudolf Lorenz and Trygve Nuggerud on Marchena Island; film transfer with wet gate; 3/4" U-matic videotape; May 26, 1995; 26:00 minutes
Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935, "Elephant Seals," produced by Allan Hancock Foundation; Reels 2 and 3; film transfer with wet gate; 1" magnetic videotape; May 26, 1995; 26:00 minutes
Reel #1 - Wagenia Risheries Rapids with native talk in background; Natives talking to guide in three languages - Kiswahili, French, and Lingola; Natives singing in Kigania; Tshopo falls background; 1/4" audiotape; April 19, 1955
Reel #2 - Wagenia natives in canoes; Natives at River Obe on road from Nia Nia to Paulis; Musician playing stringed instrument and natives singing; 1/4" audiotape; April 22-27, 1955
Reel #3 - Natives at Paulis; 1/4" audiotape; April 28, 1955
Reel #4 - Native dancers at Paulis; 1/4" audiotape; April 28, 1955
Reel #5 - Elephants bathing at Gangala na Bodie; Native elephant attendants singing at Gangala na Bodie; April 29, 1955
Reel #6 - Lion cubs wrasseling; Elephants bathing and natives singing - Gangala na Bodie; Pygmy elephant hunt dance; Pygmies singing and playing reed flutes and drums, near Beni; Musician playing gourd instrument near Beni; 1/4" audiotape; April 30 and May 8, 1955
Reel #7 - Watusi dances - Kisenyi; Belgian Congo; 1/4" audiotape; May 12, 1955
Reel #8 - Watusi dances - Kisenyi; Belgian Congo; 1/4" audiotape; May 12, 1955
Sound effects, Reel #1, 1/4" audiotape
Sound effects, Reel #2, 1/4" audiotape
Sound effects, Reel #3, 1/4" audiotape
Smithsonian-Bredin Yucatan Expedition, 1960; Commentary for 20 minutes; 1/4" audiotape
Remembrance to Waldo Wasalle Schmitt; March 22, 1978 (2 audiocassettes)
Boxes 151-153
Lantern Slides
Tortugas Laboratory Trips, 1924-1925, 1930-1932. Mostly consists of underwater shots of fishes and crustacean fauna
Boxes 154-163
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, 1925-1927
Boxes 164-168
Galapagos Islands. Includes slides from the Hancock Pacific-Galapagos Expeditions, 1933-1935 and the Presidential Cruise of 1938
Boxes 168-172
Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition, 1937
Boxes 173-175
Hancock South America Expedition, 1939
Boxes 175-188
Miscellaneous Lantern Slides
Mostly consists of slides of crustacean specimens, line drawings, and classroom material used by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt while he served as part-time instructor of zoology at George Washington University
Series 18
Awards, Diplomas, and Citations, 1926-1970Box 189
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1930
Central High School Alumni Association, 1940
La Academia Chilean de Ciencias Naturales, 1935
Pan American World Airways. Citations for flying across the Equator and the International Date Line, 1957
Smithsonian Institution. Sixty year service award, 1967
Sociedad Chilean de Historia Natural, 1927
Sociedad Protectora dos Animaes de Santos e Sao Viente, 1927
Society for the Study of Evolution, 1970
Society of the Sigma Xi, 1941
Society of the Sigma Zeta, 1939
Washington Academy of Sciences, 1930
Zoological Society of London, 1930
Series 19
Copy NegativesBoxes 190-192
Copy Negatives
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