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Accession 08-140
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Paleobiology
Curatorial Correspondence and Memoranda, 1923-2004
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of Natural History. Department of Paleobiology |
Title: | Curatorial Correspondence and Memoranda |
Dates: | 1923-2004 |
Quantity: | 4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 08-140 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession documents the work of Museum Specialist Robert W. Purdy. Materials include correspondence and records documenting collections management, exhibitions, websites, specimen loans, media productions and related activities of the Department of Paleobiology. Some materials are in electronic format. |
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This accession documents the work of Museum Specialist Robert W. Purdy. Materials include correspondence and records documenting collections management, exhibitions, websites, specimen loans, media productions and related activities of the Department of Paleobiology. Some materials are in electronic format.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-140, National Museum of Natural History. Department of Paleobiology, Curatorial Correspondence and Memoranda
Container List
Box 1
Cabot B-B-B
Dupont
1996-1997 Projects
Evolution of Shark Program Discovery Channel, 1996
Scholastic, Inc., Review of Dinosaurs to Dodos
Carcharodon Megalodon Dentitioy Measure Requests, 1996
Chelonia Couperi
Elasmobranch Fishes from the Paleocene of South Carolina
Paper Outline, July 6, 1991
Marine Fossil Shark from Nonmarine Oligocene Sediments, Northeastern Kazakhstan
Using Tooth Structure to Determine the Evolutionary History of the White Shark, Carcharodon Carcharias
Fish Teeth from the Pleistocene of Jamaica
Charleston Museum
General Correspondence
Specimen/Casts
Comfort, North Carolina
Trip History: Raleigh, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina
Edisto, South Carolina
Ocean Lakes, Inc., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Smithsonian
Ontogenetic Development of Teeth in Lamna Nasus
Blancan Alabama Mammals
News Clippings/Bulletins
General Correspondence, 2003-2005
General Correspondence, 2005
General Correspondence, 2005 Part 2
General Correspondence, 2001-2005
Specimens/Casts Part 2
General Correspondence, 2004
Ocean's Hall
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Shark Taxonomy Symposium, 1990
Carcharodon and Isurus Distinguished by Size Difference
General papers, 1970-2004
General Correspondence, 1992-2004
News/Bulletins Part 2
Interns/Volunteers
Applegate
Compagno (2 folders)
Belgian Sharks: Nolf
Muller, Arnold
Specimens and Loans (2 folders)
Box 2
Mounted pictures of fossils
Order lamniformes and Carcharhinus species papers
Image List with Captions
Lee Creek Mine Shark Fauna Part 1
Lee Creek Mine Shark Fauna Part 2
Sharks Fact and Fantasy Folder
Manuscript of "The Neogene Sharks, Rays, and Boney Fishes from Lee Creak Mine, Aurora, North Carolina"
Visual Materials Part 1
Visual Materials Part 2
LCM Shark Manuscript Critique
Bibliographies/Articles
Carcharodon Paleoecology Current
White Shark Conference
Purdy + Hotten
Figures (Images) and Figure captions list
St. Stephen Final Manuscript
Elasmobranch Fishes from the Paleocene of South Carolina
Paleontology of the Black Mingo Group of South Carolina
Taleost fish remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina
H. Nebraskensis
Purdy Sharks Black Mingo
Schneider Revisions
Lee Creek Fish Documents including master document (includes electronic records)
LCMADD-1.wpd (electronic records)
BIBLIO-1.wpd (electronic records)
Contributions to Paleontology N.90 Carchar Z, Carchar H, Lamnid Z (includes electronic records)
Mounted Pictures of Fossils
Dealers
McDonald, Jerry N.
Eric Livingston
James Leonard
Ralph Johnson (M.A.P.S.)
Mike Frazier, MMNS
Fierstine, Harry L.
Walton Specimens Returned, November 21, 1980
Cavender, Ted
Museum Education Committee Membership List .
Public Relations
Copyright Law
Collection Security
Press
Paleobiology Mission Statement
Box 3
Evacuation
Education Policy
Bentley Fund Proposal
Gazin Library V.P. Library, 1998-1999
VP Collection Budget
SI "Giveaways"
Bonavia Malta Shark Teeth
BLM Canyon City: Casts Requirements
VP - General Correspondence
Fierstine, Harry
Identifying Fossil Shark Species, 1990
Fossils: History of Life
Geochronology Bib
Humor
Beard, Chris
Bangor, Massachusetts, Walrus
Baird, Don, Severn Reptiles
Smithsonian Associate Course
'Research' Poster Session
Nugent, Jack
Kranz, Peter
Rasmussen Cataloguing
N. Gulf
Mammal Hall Specimens
Specimens for Director's Meeting Room
Specimens for Silver Hill Facility
Taylor, C. E.
Specimens Reported Stolen Outside United States National Museum (USNM)
United States Geological Survey (USGS) Examinations &Reports
Weist, Robert
Acknowledgments
Whisler
Shark: Traveling Exhibit, April 8, 1998
Telecast Pacific Carcharodon
SVP Database Committee
Invoice Drafts
SVP: National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Proposal
Contributions to Paleobiology Series
Donor List
Mammal Hall, February 1, 1999
Mammal Hall, February 18, 2000
Mammal Hall Requests to American Museum of Natural History
Mammal Hall Ambuldcetus
Alphadon
Mammal Hall Requests to Florida Museum of Natural History
Riversleigh, Australia
Mongolian Fossil Mammals
Hampton Whale Loan
Visitors
General Correspondence, mainly about specimen loans and Lee Creek Mine (6 folders)
5k projects
Estes' Loans
Makaira indica
Box 4
Correspondence concerning specimens (donations, acquisitions, loans, casts, transfers, and importation, identifications); main projects (Lee Creek Mine, the Black Mingo group, and Sharks In Question); and small topics (Fossil Fair, the TV documentary on Megalodon, collections management, and requests to review books)
Greenland Tertiary
Purdy and Hotton
Sartenaer
Shark Teeth Needed
Catalogue Numbers - Birds
Mary Carpenter Rampart Cave
McDonald American Museum of Natural History Loan
Whale on Temporary Storage in Attic
Impromptu
Collection Projects
Whitmore's Borrows
Smithsonian Affliates
www.DeepTime
www.Dinosaurs
Geotime
Cabot Event
Interns
Venezuala Miocene Chondrichthyes
Sharks In Question - Deepwater Sharks
El Salvador
Sharks in Question - Book Proposal
General Correspondence (14 folders)
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