Record Unit 192 - United States National Museum, Permanent Administrative Files, 1877-1975

Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution

Record Unit 192
United States National Museum,
Permanent Administrative Files,
1877-1975

Records prior to 1907 consist mostly of incoming correspondence (outgoing correspondence can be found in record unit 112). After 1907 the records contain both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Much of the material consists of routine public inquiries. In addition, these records document museum accessions and Smithsonian expeditions and field trips. Other topics include Smithsonian participation in expositions, operation of certain museum divisions, and miscellaneous subjects. Accession records include: data on the Herber R. Bishop jade collection; William Joseph Hammer collection of incandescent lamps, 1905; Robert Ward collection of ferns, 1905-1906; transfer of the United States Patent Office collections to the United States National Museum, 1906-1909; Hubert G. Squires collection of Chinese porcelain; Hippisley collection of Chinese porcelain, 1909-1912; collections from the Arizona fossil forest; E. A. Wakefield collection of Basuto pottery; James D. S. Chalmers collection of minerals; McIntire collection of historical objects; Charles Fuller Baker collection from the Galapagos Islands; United States National Museum collection of postage stamps; Isaac Lea collection of gems and mollusks; George D. Seymour collection of clocks; Joseph Priestley collection of scientific apparatus; Robert C. Hall ethnological collection; Dwight J. Partello bequest; John B. Bernadou bequest; Bernard Rogan Ross ethnological collections; Mrs. James W. Pinchot collection of textiles; Richard Mansfield collection of theatrical costumes; B. F. Chandler herbarium; Morris Loeb collection of chemical compounds; Donn collection of Lincoln relics; Frank S. Collins herbarium and library; Oldroyd collection of Lincoln relics; Thomas Jefferson writing desk; Richard E. Byrd airplane "Josephine Ford"; Walter W. Holmes fossil bird bone collection; Brush-Swan electrical apparatus collection; collection of first ladies' gowns in the United States National Museum; Virgil Michael Brand coin collection; Charles Russell Orcutt natural history collections; Isobel H. Lenman collection of Old World archaeology; American period costume collection in the United States National Museum; Charles A. Lindbergh collection of personal memorabilia; Nordenskold Mesa Verde collection; Joseph Nelson Rose collection of cacti; Osborne collection of Guatemalan textiles; United States National Museum collection of building stones; the Holt collection of birds from South America, 1936-1940; the Annie H. Hegeman lace and textile collection; the United States National Museum's collection of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris paintings; James Townsend Russell anthropological collection; the Harvey Harlow Nininger meteorite collection; the Hope diamond.

Records related to Smithsonian expeditions and field work include: Mexican-United States Boundary Commission; expeditions and collecting in the Philippine Islands, 1903-1905; University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia, 1887-1888; Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Egypt, 1909; Arthur deC. Sowerby collecting trips to China, 1909-1936; Owen Bryant-William Palmer expedition to Java, 1905-1910; Smithsonian-Roosevelt African expedition, 1909; Rainey African expedition, 1911; Smithsonian-Harvard expedition to Altai Mountains, Siberia, 1912; National Geographic Society-Yale University expedition to Peru, 1915; Smithsonian-Universal Film Manufacturing Company African Expedition, 1920; David C. Graham collecting work in China, 1925-1940; Hugh McCormick Smith collecting work in Siam; Marsh-Darien expedition, 1924; Smithsonian biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1911-1912; Ellsworth Paine Killip collecting work in Europe, 1935, and Venezuela, 1943-1944; Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., field work in Mississippi and Louisiana, 1938; Herbert Girton Deignan's collecting work in Siam, 1936-1937; the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition to the West Indies, 1933; Stanley John's collecting work in the British West Indies, 1935-1938; Charles W. Gilmore and Frank H. H. Roberts collecting work in Arizona, 1937; the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Archeological Expedition to Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1938-1939; Matthew William Stirling's field work in Mexico, 1940-1946; the National Geographic Society-University of Virginia Expedition to the South Pacific Islands, 1939; Walter W. Taylor, Jr.'s, archeological field work in Mexico, 1940-1945; Floyd A. McClure's bamboo investigations in Mexico and Central and South America, 1943-1944; Henri Pittier's botanical field work in Venezuela, 1944-1946; Philip Hershkovitz field work in Colombia, 1946-1950; the Finn Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1946-1948; Brina Kessel field work in Alaska, 1950; Clifford Evans, Jr., field work in Ecuador, 1954-1958; Marshall T. Newman field work in Peru, 1955-1957; James Paul Chapin collecting work in Africa, 1957; Ralph S. Solecki field work in Iraq, 1954-1959.

Records that document Smithsonian involvement in expositions include: South Carolina and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, 1902; Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904; Jamestown (Virginia) Tercentenary Exposition, 1907; International Photographic Exposition, Dresden, 1909; World's Columbian Exposition, 1896; Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915; Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915; International Silk Exposition, New York, 1921; Pageant of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1922; Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926; Progress Exposition, New Haven, 1926; International Exposition, Seville, Spain, 1927; Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1931; Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, 1936; New York World's Fair, 1939; Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939; Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936; Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition, 1937; Port-au-Prince Bicentennial Exposition, Haiti, 1949.

Records related to the origin or operation of subdivisions of the United States National Museum include: development of the Division of Textiles; history of the National Herbarium, 1886-1908; development of the Division of Medicine; development of the Division of Mineral Technology, 1914; Traveling Exhibit Service; Division of Graphic Arts; Division of Numismatics.

Miscellaneous topics covered by these records include: establishment of Bermuda Biological Station, 1900-1904; United States military operations against insurgents in the Philippine Islands, 1904; the Lincoln Memorial Commission, 1913; proposed construction of a George Washington Memorial; National Museum involvement in search for the Port Orford meteorite; exhibition of the "Spirit of St. Louis"; National Museum exhibition of objects from World War I; use of the National Museum Building by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in World War I; proposed creation of a National Museum of Engineering and Industry under Smithsonian control; Samuel P. Langley's aerodrome experiments; Smithsonian activities during World War II, particularly the evacuation of United States National Museum collections from Washington; A. Remington Kellogg's work on the Governmental Advisory Committee on Oceanography and the International Whaling Commission; United States National Museum correspondence with Phineas T. Barnum, 1882-1891; Washington A. Roebling's mineral collections.

Most of the correspondence is directed to the officer in immediate charge of the United States National Museum (Richard Rathbun, 1897-1918; William deC. Ravenel, 1918-1925; Alexander Wetmore, 1925-1948; A. Remington Kellogg, 1948-1962) with lesser amounts to John Enos Graf, who was appointed Associate Director, United States National Museum, in 1931. Also, a smaller amount of correspondence is addressed to the Secretary of the Smithsonian (Spencer F. Baird, 1878-1887; Samuel P. Langley, 1887-1906; Charles D. Walcott, 1907-1927, Charles G. Abbot, 1928-1944; Alexander Wetmore, 1944-1952; Leonard Carmichael, 1953-1964) and to various museum curators. This correspondence was usually referred to the chief administrator of the United States National Museum for response.

Box 1 of 672

#1 - #300

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#301 - #600

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#601 - #1000

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#1001 - #1375

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#1376 - #1725

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#1726 - #2025

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#2026 - #2325

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#2326 - #2600

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#2601 - #2900

Box 10 of 672

#2901 - #3175. Includes a report on the exhibit of the National Museum at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, by Frederick William True, 1902 (#3077).

Box 11 of 672

#3176 - #3475

Box 12 of 672

#3476 - #3775. Includes a report by the Botanical Society of America on the National Herbarium, 1902-1903 (#3699); correspondence with Guglielmo Marconi regarding the donation of wireless telegraphy apparatus to the USNM, 1902-1903 (#3755).

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#3776 - #4100

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#4101 - #4375

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#4376 - #4700

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#4701 - #5025

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#5026 - #5350

Box 18 of 672

#5351 - #5650. Includes correspondence with Albert Mann concerning his work "Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888-1904" (Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium, Vol. X, part 5, 1907), 1903-1904 (#5606, see also #2467, box 8); correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia over the distribution of specimens collected on the Albatross voyages, 1904 (#5644).

Box 19 of 672

#5651 - #5950. Includes correspondence with Edgar Alexander Mearns regarding his collecting work in the Philippines, 1903 (#5655); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to purchase the Georg Semper Collection of Philippine lepidoptera, 1903-1904 (#5684); correspondence with Addison Emery Verrill regarding his work on Bering Sea and Arctic starfish, 1904 (#5738, 5814).

Box 20 of 672

#5951 - #6200

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#6201 - #6550

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#6551 - #6825

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#6826 - #7125

Box 24 of 672

#7126 - #7400. Includes correspondence from Edgar Alexander Mearns concerning American military operations against insurgents in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#7140).

Box 25 of 672

#7401 - #7650. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of the Bermuda Biological Station, 1900-1904 (#7552).

Box 26 of 672

#7651 - #7925

Box 27 of 672

#7926 - #8200

Box 28 of 672

#8201 - #8500. Includes correspondence from Jesse R. Harris, who collected for the USNM while serving as Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army, stationed in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#8348).

Box 29 of 672

#8501 - #8775. Includes correspondence from Jesse R. Harris regarding his collecting work in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#8679).

Box 30 of 672

#8776 - #8975. Includes extensive correspondence regarding a controversy between Ernest C. Rost and the USNM over an alleged agreement for Rost to collect for the museum in Costa Rica and Panama, 1904-1908 (#8875).

Box 31 of 672

#8976 - #9275

Box 32 of 672

#9276 - #9550. Includes correspondence regarding the designation of William Louis Abbott as an Honorary Associate in Zoology, 1905 (#9510).

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#9551 - #9850

Box 34 of 672

#9851 - #10150. Includes correspondence from Theodor Holm containing complaints lodged against the National Herbarium, 1904-1905 (#10093).

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#10151 - #10450

Box 36 of 672

#10451 - #10725

Box 37 of 672

#10726 - #10900. Includes correspondence regarding Roderick Ross MacFarlane's "Notes on mammals collected and observed in the northern Mackenzie River District, Northwest Territories of Canada, with remarks on explorers and explorations of the Far North" (Proceedings of USNM, Vol. 28, 1905), 1903-1908 (#10800 1/2).

Box 38 of 672

#10901 - #11175. Includes material regarding Ales Hrdlicka's work in the Division of Physical Anthropology, USNM, 1905-1906 (#11054); correspondence from Jesse R. Harris concerning his work in the Philippines, 1905 (#11128).

Box 39 of 672

#11175 - #11450. Includes material concerning an effort by the USNM and the Department of Anthropology of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis) to develop an anthropometric laboratory at the exposition, 1904. Correspondents include Ales Hrdlicka and William John McGee (#11349).

Box 40 of 672

#11451 - #11725. Includes material regarding the Heber Reginald Bishop collection of jade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895-1899, 1905 (#11681).

Box 41 of 672

#11726 - #12025. Includes material concerning the William Joseph Hammer collection of incandescent lamps, 1905 (#11809).

Box 42 of 672

#12026 - #12325

Box 43 of 672

#12326 - #12600

Box 44 of 672

#12601 - #12875. Includes correspondence regarding arrangements between the USNM and the Treasury Department to allow medical officers stationed aboard Revenue Cutters to make ethnological collections for the museum, 1906 (#12663).

Box 45 of 672

#12876 - #13200. Includes correspondence regarding Joseph A. Cushman's work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1906-1908 (#12984).

Box 46 of 672

#13201 - #13425. Includes correspondence regarding the Robert Ward collection of ferns, 1905-1906 (#13330); USNM file on the history and development of the National Herbarium, 1886-1908, 1948 (#13407).

Box 47 of 672

#13426 - #13700. Includes correspondence regarding Henry A. Pilsbry's work on the USNM collection of cirripedia, 1906 (#13634).

Box 48 of 672

#13701 - #13900. Includes extensive correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and the University of Wyoming, 1898-1906 (#13851).

Box 49 of 672

#13901 - #14175

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#14176 - #14500

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#14501 - #14750

Box 52 of 672

#14751 - #15025. Includes material regarding the discovery of the remains of primitive man by Robert Fletcher Gilder at Omaha, Nebraska, 1906. Correspondents include Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ales Hrdlicka (#15019).

Box 53 of 672

#15026 - #15275. Includes correspondence with Carl H. Eigenmann concerning his work on the USNM collection of characins, 1906 (#15119).

Box 54 of 672

#15276 - #15550

Box 55 of 672

#15551 - #15800

Box 56 of 672

#15801 - #15975. Includes correspondence with Janet Russell Perkins regarding her work on the leguminosae of Puerto Rico, 1906-1907 (#15832); correspondence with Janet Russell Perkins regarding her work on the USNM collection of Philippine plants, 1904-1907 (#15833); USNM file on the transfer of the Patent Office Collections to the USNM, 1906-1909 (#15834, 2 folders); correspondence with Addison Emery Verrill concerning the possibility of securing a position in the USNM, 1907 (#15872).

Box 57 of 672

#15976 - #16225. Includes correspondence with the Aero Club regarding the borrowing of the Langley Aerodrome for exhibition at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907 (#16194).

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#16226 - #16450

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#16451 - #16650

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#16651 - #16875

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#16876 - #17125

Box 62 of 672

#17126 - #17300. Includes correspondence regarding Joseph A. Cushman's work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1907 (#17146).

Box 63 of 672

#17301 - #17500. Includes correspondence regarding Jesse Francis McClendon's work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1906-1908 (#17368).

Box 64 of 672

#17501 - #17800

Box 65 of 672

#17800 1/2 - #18099. Includes correspondence regarding the loan of the Herbert Goldsmith Squires collection of Chinese porcelains, jades, and lacquers to the USNM, 1907-1908 (#18080).

Box 66 of 672

#18101 - #18325

Box 67 of 672

#18326 - #18550. Includes correspondence concerning the choice of a director for the newly established Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1907-1908. Correspondents include Persifor M. Cooke, Richard Rathbun, and Frederick William True (#18330).

Box 68 of 672

#18551 - #18750

Box 69 of 672

#18751 - #19688. Includes correspondence regarding Charles Henry Gilbert's work on the USNM collection of fishes, 1905 and 1908 (#19350); correspondence with Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., regarding his investigations of Spanish museums and his work on the catalogue of European mammals, 1907-1908 (#19462); material regarding relations between the USNM and the U.S. Forest Service, especially correspondence concerning a large meteorite that fell on a Government Forest Reserve in Washington, 1907-1917. Correspondents include Gifford Pinchot and Overton Westfeldt Price (#19600).

Box 70 of 672

#19701 - #20266. Includes correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and Edmond Redmond who accused the museum of stealing his invention for making casts with paraffin, 1898-1908 (#19757); correspondence with the U.S. Department of Interior regarding the Arizona Fossil Forest, 1908-1909 (#19973); correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and Jerome McNeill over his retention of museum type specimens, 1894-1908 (#19974); correspondence with Charles Lincoln Edwards regarding his work on the USNM collection of Holothurians, 1899-1908 (#19976); material concerning an archaeological expedition to Babylonia under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1888 and a proposed expedition to Mesopotamia under the auspices of the S.I., 1887-1888. Correspondents include Paul Haupt, Daniel Coit Gilman, John Punnett Peters, and William Pepper (#20266).

Box 71 of 672

#20271 - #20503. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to recover museum specimens of Arctic bryozoa in the possession of Hermann A. Kluge, 1905-1937 (#20429); correspondence regarding the return of the USNM collection of Pacific sponges from Robert von Lendenfeld of the German University at Prague, 1905-1921 (#20430); correspondence of the USNM Committee on Material Held for Postage, 1908-1926 (#20503).

Box 72 of 672

#20505 - #20985. Includes correspondence regarding the return of the USNM collection of fossil diptera from Axel Leonard Melander, 1903-1948 (#20529); material regarding USNM administrative regulations concerning distribution of publications, and correspondence, 1892-1907 (#20726).

Box 73 of 672

#21231 - #22079. Includes correspondence regarding the exchange of ferns between the USNM and Eduard Rosenstock of Gotha, Germany, 1908 (#21691); correspondence with Raymond Carroll Osburn of Columbia University regarding his work on North American bryozoans, 1908 (#21704); correspondence with Charles Cleveland Nutting concerning his work on the USNM collection of Hawaiian Alcyonaria, 1908 (#21706).

Box 74 of 672

#22085 - #23240. Includes material regarding SI involvement in the International Photographic Exposition, Dresden, 1909 (#22340); correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and Hubert Lyman Clark of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1907-1909. Correspondents include Samuel Henshaw (#22477). Also included is correspondence with Roy L. Moodie of the University of Kansas regarding his work on the USNM collection of carboniferous amphibia, 1908-1909 (#22532); correspondence with Charles Lincoln Edwards regarding his work on the USNM collection of holothurians, 1908-1909 (#22655); correspondence with Ales Hrdlicka concerning his collecting work while serving on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Egypt, 1909 (#23058).

Box 75 of 672

#23263 - #24164. Includes a file on the Alfred Vail telegraph relics in the USNM, 1885-1909. Much of the correspondence regards a controversy between the USNM and Stephen Vail concerning the exhibiting of the relics (#23530). Also includes material regarding the proposed transfer, to the USNM, of the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1896. 1906-1909, 1916 (#24085).

Box 76 of 672

#24165 - #25487. Includes material documenting an exchange between the USNM and the American Museum of Natural History, in which the National Museum's Cope Collection was exchanged for various geologic and paleontological specimens from the AMNH collections, 1900-1909. Correspondents include James W. Gidley, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles D. Walcott, and George P. Merrill (#24165). Also includes material concerning museum policy toward the loan of type specimens, 1893-1914 (#24416); material documenting USNM relations with the Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Leipzig, Germany, 1909-1913 (#24537); correspondence with Theodor Mortensen of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen regarding his work, "On Some West Indian Echinoids," USNM Bulletin #74, 1910 (#24611).

Box 77 of 672

#25488 - #26895. Includes material regarding the withdrawal of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese porcelain from the USNM, 1909-1912 (#26889).

Box 78 of 672

#26933 - #28174. Includes correspondence regarding Arthur deC. Sowerby's work collecting natural history specimens (for the USNM) in China, 1909-1922 (#26936); correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's studies on Eskimo crania, 1909-1910 (#26993); correspondence with Wilbur Wright regarding USNM attempts to obtain a model of the Wright Brothers' airplane, 1908-1910, 1928 (#28174).

Box 79 of 672

#28200 1/2 - #29981. Includes USNM file on specimens distributed for study and exchange from 1881-1922, 1922 (#28200 1/2); USNM file on gifts to the United States from the Imaum of Muscat, 1887-1910 (#28518); correspondence regarding the collecting of specimens from the Arizona Fossil Forest, 1907-1910 (#29078); correspondence concerning an expedition to Java by Owen Bryant and William Palmer, 1910 (#29314); USNM file on museum participation at scientific congresses (1883-1910), 1910 (#29917); correspondence with Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., regarding his work on the mammals collected on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1910 (#29981).

Box 80 of 672

#30316 - #32497. Includes correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's field work in Argentina, 1910 (#30379); correspondence regarding the E. A. Wakefield collection of Basuto pottery, 1911-1917 (#31909).

Box 81 of 672

#32501 - #33488. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and the Museum of Comparative Zoology over the USNM collection of Philippine Medusae, 1909-1917 (#32656); correspondence with Harry R. Caldwell regarding an offer to collect natural history specimens in China, 1911-1913 (#32933).

Box 82 of 672

#33501 - #34597. Includes correspondence with Rene Koehler of the University of Lyon, France, regarding his work on the USNM collection of ophiurans, 1910-1915 (#33568); correspondence with James W. Gidley regarding a fossil collecting excursion to Montana, 1911 (#33796); correspondence regarding a planned big game hunting trip to New Brunswick by Kermit Roosevelt, 1911. Correspondents include Theodore Roosevelt (#34193). Also includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work as Smithsonian field naturalist on the Rainey African Expedition, 1911 (#34431).

Box 83 of 672

#34600 - #35300. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the New York Electrical Exposition, 1911 (#34682); correspondence regarding a collecting trip to the Bahama Islands by Alfred Goldsbourough Mayer, T. Wayland Vaughan, and Paul Bartsch, 1911-1912 (#34750).

Box 84 of 672

#35308 - #35875. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work as Smithsonian field naturalist on the Rainey African Expedition, 1911 (#35391); correspondence concerning the William Joseph Hammer Scientific Collection, 1911, 1932-1938 (#35416).

Box 85 of 672

#35876 - #36125. Includes correspondence regarding the Smithsonian-Harvard expedition to the Altai Mountains of Siberia, 1912. Correspondents include Theodore Lyman, Samuel Henshaw, Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., and Ned Hollister (#36120).

Box 86 of 672

#36126 - #36350

Box 87 of 672

#36351 - #36626

Box 88 of 672

#36626 - #36875

Box 89 of 672

#36876 - #37075. Includes correspondence with Copley P. Amory, Jr., regarding a collecting trip to Alaska, 1912 (#36938).

Box 90 of 672

#37076 - #37325

Box 91 of 672

#37326 - #37575. Includes correspondence concerning the James D. S. Chalmers collection of minerals, 1912-1918, 1939-1940 (#37533).

Box 92 of 672

#37576 - #37850

Box 93 of 672

#37851 - #38100. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, regarding the collection of plants made by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1910-1912 (#37906).

Box 94 of 672

#38101 - #38350. Includes correspondence with Brent I. Altsheler regarding a proposed expedition to Africa, 1912-1913 (#38312).

Box 95 of 672

#38351 - #38600

Box 96 of 672

#38601 - #38700

Box 97 of 672

#38701 - #38950. Includes correspondence with John Percy Moore of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia regarding a controversy over the ownership of a collection of annelids, 1910-1912 (#38828).

Box 98 of 672

#38951 - #39200

Box 99 of 672

#39201 - #39450. Includes correspondence with George Mixter regarding his collecting trip, for the USNM, to Siberia, 1913 (#39253); correspondence with Kermit Roosevelt regarding his collecting work in Brazil, 1913 (#39282); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM and Congress to purchase the McIntire collection of historical objects, 1913-1914 (#39419).

Box 100 of 672

#39451 - #39675. Includes correspondence regarding a collection of firearms lent to the USNM by the U.S. Cartridge Company, 1911-1913 (#39655).

Box 101 of 672

#39676 - #39875

Box 102 of 672

#39876 - #40050. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker regarding the deposit of his collection of Philippine insects in the USNM, 1913 (#39998); correspondence with Samuel Mixter regarding a collecting trip to the Alaskan Peninsula and the Pribiloff Islands, 1913 (#39999); correspondence with Albert M. Reese regarding a collecting expedition to the Philippine Islands under the auspices of the USNM, 1913 (#40035).

Box 103 of 672

#40051 - #40300. Includes correspondence with Nathaniel Lord Britton, Daniel Trembly McDougal, and Joseph Nelson Rose regarding an expedition to the West Indies to investigate cacti, 1912-1913 (#40297).

Box 104 of 672

#40301 - #40550. Includes correspondence documenting relations between the USNM and the National Museum of Venezuela, 1913-1920 (#40499).

Box 105 of 672

#40551 - #40775. Includes correspondence with Joseph Nelson Rose regarding his expedition with Nathaniel Lord Britton to study the cacti of the West Indies, 1913 (#40551).

Box 106 of 672

#40776 - #41025

Box 107 of 672

#41026 - #41200

Box 108 of 672

#41201 - #41450

Box 109 of 672

#41451 - #41725. Includes correspondence with Ernest de Koven Leffingwell regarding his work collecting fossils from Alaska for the USNM, 1913 (#41608).

Box 110 of 672

#41726 - #41975

Box 111 of 672

#41976 - #42175. Includes correspondence with the Bureau of Science, Manila, regarding a collection of Philippine mollusks transmitted to the USNM, 1909-1914. Correspondents include Alvin Joseph Cox and Paul Bartsch (#42039). Also includes correspondence with the Lincoln Memorial Commission regarding an analysis, by George P. Merrill, of the marble selected for use in the construction of the memorial, 1913 (#42095).

Box 112 of 672

#42176 - #42375. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the competition to select a design for the Oliver Hazard Perry Memorial, 1911-1913 (#42179), correspondence with Fred Baker concerning a collecting trip to the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand, 1913 (#42370).

Box 113 of 672

#42376 - #42625. Includes correspondence with Joseph C. Thompson regarding his collecting work at Puget Sound, Washington, 1913 (#42552): correspondence with Charles Schuchert regarding his work on fossil starfish, 1913 (#42580).

Box 114 of 672

#42626 - #42850

Box 115 of 672

#42851 - #43100

Box 116 of 672

#43101 - #43325. Includes correspondence with Elton Clark regarding an expedition to Africa, 1913-1915 (#43301).

Box 117 of 672

#43326 - #43575. Includes correspondence regarding the development of the Division of Mineral Technology, USNM, 1914 (#43510).

Box 118 of 672

#43576 - #43825. Includes correspondence with Harlan Ingersoll Smith regarding the development of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum, Banff, Canada, 1914-1915 (#43707); correspondence regarding a controversy between J. Cummings Vail and the USNM over certain telegraph exhibits, 1913-1914 (#43811).

Box 119 of 672

#43826 - #44025. Includes correspondence with C. T. Summerson regarding a collecting trip to Alaska, 1914 (#43951).

Box 120 of 672

#44026 - #44275.

Box 121 of 672

#44276 - #44525. Includes correspondence regarding an attempt by the USNM to secure type mammals described by R. A. Philippi, as a loan from the National Museum of Chile, 1914. Correspondents include Joseph Nelson Rose (#44359). Also includes correspondence concerning the Georg Herman Baur natural history collection from the Galapagos Islands, 1914 (#44521); correspondence with George Thorton Emmons regarding his ethnological collections from the Pacific Northwest, 1913-1914 (#44522).

Box 122 of 672

#44526 - #44800. Includes correspondence concerning William A. Stanton's contributions as a collector for the USNM, 1914 (#44762).

Box 123 of 672

#44801 - #45025. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure specimens of mammals from Yellowstone National Park, 1914 (#44819); correspondence with Harlan Ingersoll Smith concerning the development of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum, 1914 (#44871); correspondence regarding the building stone collection of the USNM, 1912 (#44999).

Box 124 of 672

#45026 - #45300

Box 125 of 672

#45301 - #45500. Includes USNM file on the museum collection of postage stamps, 1910-1934 (#45356).

Box 126 of 672

#45501 - #45750. Includes correspondence with Fred Baker regarding his collecting activities in Japan, 1914 (#45595).

Box 127 of 672

#45751 - #46000. Includes correspondence with Samuel Frederick Hildebrand regarding his study of the fishes collected by the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1914-1915 (#45929).

Box 128 of 672

#46001 - #46250. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange between the USNM and the Irkutsk Museum, Siberia, 1912-1914 (#46079).

Box 129 of 672

#46251 - #46500

Box 130 of 672

#46501 - #46750. Includes correspondence regarding the distribution of mammals collected by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1913-1915 (#46740).

Box 131 of 672

#46751 - #47000. Includes correspondence with George G. Heye regarding his gift of skeletal material to the USNM, 1914-1915 (#46876); correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the Yale-National Geographic Peruvian Expedition of 1914-1915, 1915-1917. Correspondents include Hiram Bingham, Ales Hrdlicka, and William Henry Holmes (#46898). Also includes correspondence with Joseph C. Thompson regarding the USNM exhibit at the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 (#46953).

Box 132 of 672

#47001 - #47275

Box 133 of 672

#47276 - #47500. Includes correspondence regarding relations between the USNM and the Oakland Public Museum, 1914-1916 (#47400); correspondence with Charles Schuchert regarding his work on fossil starfish, 1914-1915 (#47469); correspondence pertaining to the working up of the East Africa Mammal collections in the USNM, including recommendations that Ned Hollister assume responsibility for the work, replacing Edmund Heller, 1915 (#47472); correspondence with Henry R. Amory concerning a proposed scientific expedition to the North Atlantic, 1915 (#47475).

Box 134 of 672

#47501 - #47750. Includes correspondence regarding the late Frederick William True's work on the fossil cetaceans of Virginia and North Carolina, 1915 (#47677).

Box 135 of 672

#47751 - #48000. Includes correspondence with Thomas E. Winecoff regarding his collecting activity in Alaska, 1915 (#47761).

Box 136 of 672

#48001 - #48225. Includes correspondence with the American Smelting and Refining Company regarding the development of the Division of Mineral Technology, USNM, 1915 (#48200).

Box 137 of 672

#48226 - #48450. Includes correspondence with William Jacob Holland of the Carnegie Museum and Richard S. Lull of the Peabody Museum regarding their study of Brontosaurus fossils, 1915-1933 (#48345); correspondence with Charles Rochester Eastman regarding his work on the USNM collection of fossil fishes, 1913-1915 (#48427); USNM file on rules and regulations governing accessions, 1880-1920 (#48429).

Box 138 of 672

#48451 - #48700. Includes correspondence concerning a proposed exchange of ethnological and skeletal material between the USNM and the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, 1913-1914 (#48547); correspondence with Minnie E. Watson regarding her work on crustacea, 1915 (#48590); correspondence with Charles Rochester Eastman regarding his work on the USNM collection of fossil fishes, 1915 (#48651).

Box 139 of 672

#48701 - #48950

Box 140 of 672

#48951 - #49175. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange between the USNM and the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa, 1914-1916 (#49079); correspondence with Rene Koehler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1915 (#49115); correspondence regarding the Simon Newcomb papers housed in the USNM, 1915-1916 (#49134).

Box 141 of 672

#49176 - #49400. Includes correspondence with J. Cummings Vail regarding Alfred Vail and the early history of the telegraph, 1915 (#49232).

Box 142 of 672

#49401 - #49675. Includes correspondence with the Bureau of Fisheries regarding the discovery of mummies and skeletal material on the Aleutian Islands, 1915-1916. Correspondents include Harry John Christoffers (#49417). Also includes correspondence with Charles Atwood Kofoid regarding his plans for a trip to Japan and Ceylon to investigate pearl fisheries, 1915 (#49520); correspondence regarding a gift of ethnological and archeological specimens from USNM to the Reading (Pa.) Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1915 (#49630); correspondence with Theodor Mortensen of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen regarding a collecting trip to Panama, 1915 (#49657).

Box 143 of 672

#49676 - #50025. Includes correspondence with Leonhard Stejneger regarding the 9th International Zoological Congress, Florence, Italy, 1913 (#49861), and correspondence regarding the Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain bequest for promoting the increase and scientific value of the Isaac Lea collection of gems and mollusks, 1894-1917 (#50014).

Box 144 of 672

#50035 - #50250

Box 145 of 672

#50251 - #50475. Includes material regarding USNM relations with the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, including (1) correspondence with Fred Baker and General Frank McIntyre concerning the rumored dissolution of the Bureau and the possible loss of the collections, 1914; (2) correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure a collection of Philippine ethnological specimens exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, and later at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1904-1915; (3) papers relating to the proposed transfer of an entomological collection from the Bureau of Science to the USNM, 1915 (#50350).

Box 146 of 672

#50476 - #50750. Includes correspondence regarding exhibiting the Langley Aerodrome, 1915 (#50660).

Box 147 of 672

#50751 - #50900. Correspondence numbered 50876 to 50889 concerns the Owen Bryant-William Palmer collecting expedition to Java, 1909-1910. The correspondence concerns plans for the expedition, terms of agreement between Bryant and the USNM, personal differences between Palmer and Bryant, the transmission of specimens collected, and the working-up of collections, 1908-1922.

Box 148 of 672

#50901. Correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, ca. 1904-1906. Most of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to secure specimens exhibited at St. Louis.

Box 149 of 672

#50901 (contd.) - #50950

Box 150 of 672

#50951 - #51200. Correspondence numbered 51126-51144 concerns USNM involvement at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Most of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to secure specimens exhibited at San Francisco. Correspondents include William deC. Ravenel.

Box 151 of 672

#51201 - #51375. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to obtain the United States Steel Corporation exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (#51212); correspondence concerning an offer by George D. Seymour to present the USNM with a collection of clocks, 1914-1915 (#51229); material regarding the USNM postal stamp collection, 1915 (#51261); correspondence regarding the development of the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1916-1919. Correspondents include Edward F. Bigelow and Paul G. Howes (#51297).

Box 152 of 672

#51376 - #51650

Box 153 of 672

#51651 - #51925. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange of mollusks between the USNM and W. H. Turton, 1916 (#51870).

Box 154 of 672

#51926 - #52200

Box 155 of 672

#52201 - #52450. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 (#52349); correspondence concerning a proposed exchange between the USNM and the National Museum of Mexico, 1915-1916. Correspondents include Alfonso L. Herrera (#52350). Also includes correspondence with Theodore D. A. Cockerell regarding the planned publication of a systematic list of the higher groups of animals, 1916 (#52425).

Box 156 of 672

#52451 - #52775

Box 157 of 672

#52776 - #53100. Includes correspondence regarding the collection of memorabilia and laboratory apparatus of Joseph Priestley in the USNM. Much of the material concerns the loan of the collection to the Priestley Museum, Northumberland, Pa., 1916-1956 (#53098).

Box 158 of 672

#53101 - #53550. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker regarding a proposed plan for field work in the Malayan countries, 1915-1916 (#53338).

Box 159 of 672

#53551 - #53800

Box 160 of 672

#53801 - #54075. Includes correspondence with Ruben Myron Strong regarding his study of the Albatross. Much of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to obtain Albatross specimens from the Midway Islands, 1914-1916 (#53833).

Box 161 of 672

#54076 - #54350. Includes correspondence regarding Barton Warren Evermann's study of the USNM collection of Peruvian fish, 1912-1915 (#54224).

Box 162 of 672

#54351 - #54625. Includes correspondence with Rene Koehler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1916-1920 (#54385).

Box 163 of 672

#54626 - #54825. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the analysis of materials selected for use in the construction of the Lincoln Memorial 1912-1913 (#54650); correspondence with the Submarine Film Corporation regarding an exhibition of motion pictures taken below the surface of the sea, 1914 (#54651); correspondence regarding an offer by American Telephone and Telegraph Company to donate an exhibit to the USNM illustrating the transcontinental telephone line, 1916-1917 (#54653); correspondence regarding the shipment of ammunition to Cecil Boden Kloss and Henry Cushier Raven for use in collecting mammals and birds from Singapore, 1916-1917 (#54707).

Box 164 of 672

#54826 - #55050. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker concerning his plan for the extension of biological field work in the Malayan countries, 1916 (#54862); correspondence with Oldfield Thomas, of the British Museum (Natural History) regarding his study of the USNM collection of Peruvian mammals, 1916-1921 (#54881); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure for exhibition the original Wright Brothers airplane, 1916. Correspondents include Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell (#55029).

Box 165 of 672

#55051 - #55325. Includes copies of reports by Ales Hrdlicka on his trip to Europe to examine human fossil remains, 1912, and his collecting trip to Peru, 1913 (#55180); correspondence with The Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company regarding the possible acquisition of the airplane, "June Bug," 1911 and 1937-1938 (#55197); copies of reports by Frederick L. Lewton regarding his trips to eastern manufacturing cities to secure exhibits for the Division of Textiles, USNM, 1912-1915 (#55252).

Box 166 of 672

#55326 - #55600

Box 167 of 672

#55601 - #55850

Box 168 of 672

#55851 - #56075. Includes a report by Frederick William True on the museums of New York, 1906 (#55903); correspondence regarding the reported discovery, by Elias Howard Sellards, of fossil human remains at Vero, Florida, 1916 (#56016); correspondence regarding a controversy between James Cummings Vail and the USNM over the museum's method of exhibiting artifacts relating to the history of the telegraph, 1915-1916 (#56029).

Box 169 of 672

#56076 - #56300. Includes correspondence with Lincoln Ellsworth, mostly concerning offers to perform field work for the USNM, 1916-1922 (#56161).

Box 170 of 672

#56301 - #56650

Box 171 of 672

#56651 - #56900

Box 172 of 672

#56901 - #57200

Box 173 of 672

#57201 - #57525. Includes correspondence regarding relations between the USNM and the National Geological Survey of China. Most of the material relates to the identification of fossil specimens by the USNM, 1915-1927. Correspondents include John Gunnar Andersson (#57421). Also includes correspondence regarding the possible acquisition of the Robert C. Hall ethnological collection by the USNM, 1917-1918 (#57481).

Box 174 of 672

#57526 - #57785. Includes correspondence concerning a proposed exploration of the Orinoco Valley, Venezuela, by Major C. C. Smith, USA, 1916-1917 (#57575).

Box 175 of 672

#57800 - #58025

Box 176 of 672

#58026 - #58225. Includes correspondence with Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman of the University of Toronto concerning his work on the USNM collection of Pacific ascidians, 1909-1922.

Box 177 of 672

#58226 - #58550. Includes correspondence with Reuben Myron Strong regarding his study of the anatomy of birds, 1917-1946 (#58378).

Box 178 of 672

#58551 - #58775. Includes correspondence regarding the death of Randolph Iltyd Geare, 1917 (#58599); correspondence regarding a gift of Paleozoic fossils from the USNM to the University of Virginia, 1917 (#58694).

Box 179 of 672

#58776 - #58975. Includes correspondence concerning the exchange of anthropological collections between the USNM and the museum of the Catholic University of America, 1917-1918. Correspondents include Henry Hyvernat and Romain Francois Butin (#58806). Also includes correspondence with Theodoor de Booy concerning his collecting work in the West Indies, 1916-1917 (#58894); correspondence regarding Walter Kenrick Fisher's work on Philippine starfish, 1917-1918 (#58926); correspondence regarding the Dwight J. Partello bequest, 1915-1922 (#58953).

Box 180 of 672

#58976 - #59325. Includes correspondence regarding plants collected by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1911 (#59004); correspondence regarding a motor used by Emile Berliner in his helicopter experiment, which was exhibited in the USNM, 1917-1919 (#59095).

Box 181 of 672

#59326 - #59600

Box 182 of 672

#59601 - #59925

Box 183 of 672

#59926 - #60150. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, 1915-1916 (#60063); report by William deC. Ravenel on the material acquired at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915-1916 (#60068).

Box 184 of 672

#60151 - #60425. Includes correspondence regarding a lost collection of Philippine algae, 1917-1918. Correspondents include William Albert Setchell, Marshall Avery Howe, Hugh McCormick Smith, Frank S. Collins, and William Ralph Maxon (#60277).

Box 185 of 672

#60426 - #60675. Includes correspondence regarding USNM relations with the Bourne Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass., 1917-1918 (#60441).

Box 186 of 672

#60676 - #61075. Includes correspondence concerning the bequest of Mrs. John B. Bernadou to the USNM, 1890, 1910-1917 (#60966); correspondence concerning Willard G. Van Name's work on the USNM collection of Philippine ascidians, 1917 (#61036).

Box 187 of 672

#61075 - #61375. Includes correspondence regarding the Bernard Rogan Ross ethnological collections in the USNM, 1917-1919 (#61178).

Box 188 of 672

#61376 - #61700. Includes correspondence with the American Red Cross and the Surgeon General of the Army regarding the suitability of sphagnum moss as a surgical dressing, 1917-1918 (#61384); correspondence with Henry A. Pilsbry regarding his work on the USNM collection of African mollusks, 1918 and 1932 (#61468).

Box 189 of 672

#61701 - #62000

Box 190 of 672

#62001 - #62350

Box 191 of 672

#62351 - #62650. Includes correspondence regarding a gift of natural history specimens presented by the USNM to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1918-1919 (#62396).

Box 192 of 672

#62651 - #62950

Box 193 of 672

#62951 - #63221. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work on Peruvian mammals, 1918 (#63006).

Box 194 of 672

#63222. Includes correspondence regarding the use of the USNM building by The Bureau of War Risk Insurance during World War I, 1917-1919 (1 folder); correspondence regarding the establishment of an exhibit of material from World War I, 1916-1922. Most of the correspondence is with the War Department and concerns the acquisition of war materials. (7 folders).

Box 195 of 672

#63223 - #63525

Box 196 of 672

#63526 - #63775. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of fishes collected by the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1918-1920 (#63531); correspondence regarding a collection of textile specimens lent to the USNM by Mrs. James W. Pinchot, 1915-1920. Correspondents include Gifford Pinchot (#63549). Also includes correspondence regarding a controversy over the USNM's method of exchanging duplicate postal stamps from its collections, 1916 (#63652); correspondence regarding the acquisition by the USNM of the Richard Mansfield Collection of Theatrical Costumes, 1918-1919 (#63732).

Box 197 of 672

#63776 - #64100

Box 198 of 672

#64101 - #64250. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the State Teachers College, East Radford, Virginia, 1915-1932 (#64114); also includes #48426.

Box 199 of 672

#64251 - #64450. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Fishery Congress of 1908 (#64307); correspondence regarding a planned collecting trip to the Dominican Republic and Haiti by William Louis Abbott, 1918 (#64316).

Box 200 of 672

#64451 - #64675. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure the release of Arthur deC. Sowerby from service in the British Army, 1919. Also contains plans for Sowerby's exploration of South China (#64593); correspondence concerning a gift from the museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation to the USNM of skeletal material from excavations at Hawikuh, New Mexico, 1918-1919 (#64607).

Box 201 of 672

#64676 - #64875

Box 202 of 672

#64876 - #65100. Includes correspondence regarding the restoration of Pithecanthropus, Chapelle-auxSaints and Heidelberg skulls by James H. McGregor of Columbia University, 1918-1919 (#64950).

Box 203 of 672

#65101 - #65250. Includes correspondence regarding USNM relations with The American Association of Museums, 1919-1925 (#65165).

Box 204 of 672

#65251 - #65500

Box 205 of 672

#65501 - #65775. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1918-1919 (#65660); correspondence with Willis Alonzo Dewey of the University of Michigan regarding the Division of Medicine, USNM, 1918-1919 (#65662 and #65663).

Box 206 of 672

#65776 - #66000. Includes correspondence regarding the acquisition of the B. F. Chandler herbarium by the USNM, 1918-1919 (#65957).

Box 207 of 672

#66001 - #66250. Includes correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding his collecting work in Santo Domingo, 1919 (#66086).

Box 208 of 672

#66251 - #66475

Box 209 of 672

#66476 - #66750

Box 210 of 672

#66751 - #67000

Box 211 of 672

#67001 - #67275

Box 212 of 672

#67276 - #67550

Box 213 of 672

#67551 - #67775. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to St. Joseph Junior College, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1919-1927 (#67553); correspondence concerning the possible acquisition by the USNM of skeletal material collected by the Pecos Expedition of the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1919. Correspondents include Alfred Vincent Kidder (#67579).

Box 214 of 672

#67776 - #68000. Includes correspondence regarding a proposed joint study of Philippine flora by the Philippine Bureau of Science and the USNM, 1915-1924 (#67969).

Box 215 of 672

#68001 - #68275. Includes correspondence regarding the Morris Loeb Collection of Chemical Compounds in the USNM, 1917-1923 (#68055); correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding a collecting trip to Haiti, 1919-1920 (#68114); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, 1920-1924 (#68175).

Box 216 of 672

#68276 - #68550

Box 217 of 672

#68551 - #68800. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1920 (#68671).

Box 218 of 672

#68801 - #69025

Box 219 of 672

#69026 - #69300. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed George Washington Memorial Building, planned for construction on the Mall, 1914-1940 (#69042).

Box 220 of 672

#69301 - #69525. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1920 (#69334); correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the Pan American Union, 1920-1921, 1941-1942 (#69397); correspondence regarding Paul Bartsch's study of the American shipworm, 1920 (#69404).

Box 221 of 672

#69526 - #69700. Includes correspondence regarding attempts by the SI to acquire the Donn Collection of clothing worn by Abraham Lincoln at the time of his assassination, 1920-1967 (#69608); correspondence regarding a proposed expedition to Costa Rica by K. I. Herman and John Alden Loring, 1920-1921 (#69651).

Box 222 of 672

#69701 - #69950

Box 223 of 672

#69951 - #70175

Box 224 of 672

#70176 - #70400

Box 225 of 672

#70401 - #70650. Includes correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding his collecting trip to Santo Domingo, 1920 (#70469); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Louisiana State School for the Blind, 1920-1921 (#70574).

Box 226 of 672

#70651 - #70875. Includes correspondence with the American Association of Economic Entomologists regarding the development of the Division of Entomology, USNM, 1913-1921. Correspondents include John June Davis and Theodore D. A. Cockerell (#70739).

Box 227 of 672

#70876 - #71100. Includes correspondence with E. W. Deming regarding a collecting trip to Colombia, 1920 (#71093).

Box 228 of 672

#71101 - #71325

Box 229 of 672

#71326 - #71575. Includes correspondence regarding films from the Smithsonian-Universal Film Manufacturing Co. African Expedition, 1920 (#71327); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, 1911-1938 (#71419).

Box 230 of 672

#71576 - #71775. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Silk Exposition, New York, 1921. Correspondents include Robert Stewart Culin (#71608).

Box 231 of 672

#71776 - #72025. Includes correspondence regarding John Merton Aldrich's entomological exploration of Alaska, 1921 (#71876); correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his study of the USNM collection of Formosan fishes, 1921 (#71954).

Box 232 of 672

#72026 - #72225. Includes correspondence regarding gifts and loans from the USNM to the Newark Museum Association, 1921-1926 (#72109); correspondence regarding the condemnation and disposition of old records of the USNM, 1921-1942 (#72138); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1921-1926 (#72187).

Box 233 of 672

#72226 - #72500

Box 234 of 672

#72501 - #72725

Box 235 of 672

#72726 - #72975. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding his collecting work in China, 1921 (#72909).

Box 236 of 672

#72976 - #73075. Includes correspondence concerning the Charles Francis Jenkins-Thomas Armat controversy over motion picture machines exhibited in the USNM, 1921-1928 (#73055).

Box 237 of 672

#73076 - #73300. Includes correspondence regarding a planned botanical collecting trip to Central America by Paul Carpenter Standley, 1921. Correspondents include Nathaniel Lord Britton and B. L. Robinson (#73254). Also includes correspondence with Neil M. Judd regarding the Pueblo Bonito Expedition of the National Geographic Society, 1921 (#73260).

Box 238 of 672

#73301 - #73525

Box 239 of 672

#73527 - #73750. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1921, 1934 (#73636); correspondence regarding the sale of the Frank S. Collins herbarium and library, 1920-1922 (#73649).

Box 240 of 672

#73751 - #74000. Includes correspondence with Arthur Cleveland Bent regarding his work on life histories of North American petrels and pelicans, 1921 (#73778).

Box 241 of 672

#74001 - #74250. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the National Museum of Guatemala, 1921-1924, 1935 (#74223).

Box 242 of 672

#74251 - #74450

Box 243 of 672

#74451 - #74650. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the search for the Port Orford (Oregon) Meteorite, 1900-1902, 1917-1947. Correspondents include William F. Foshag, Joseph Silas Diller, Robert M. Harrison, Myron O. Kilgore (#74505).

Box 244 of 672

#74651 - #74875

Box 245 of 672

#74876 - #75150

Box 246 of 672

#75151 - #75400

Box 247 of 672

#75401 - #75625

Box 248 of 672

#75626 - #75825. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Mexico, 1919-1922. The material also contains a statement by William Ralph Maxon regarding Orcutt and his work (#75720).

Box 249 of 672

#75826 - #76025. Includes correspondence concerning gifts from the USNM to Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1922-1931 (#75869).

Box 250 of 672

#76026 - #76275. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 1922-1923 (#76042).

Box 251 of 672

#76276 - #76450. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of a public health exhibit in the USNM, 1922-1924 (#76354).

Box 252 of 672

#76451 - #76600. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Harriman Museum, Harriman, Tennessee, 1922-1928 (#76542).

Box 253 of 672

#76601 - #76646. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a National Museum of Engineering and Industry under the direction of the Smithsonian, 1922-1933 (#76646).

Box 254 of 672

#76647 - #76850

Box 255 of 672

#76851 - #77050. Includes correspondence with Robert Sterling Clark regarding a proposed collecting trip to China, 1922-1923 (#76877); correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the Pageant of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1922 (#76927); correspondence regarding the H. H. Noice Eskimo collection, 1922 (#76936).

Box 256 of 672

#77051 -#77275. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding his collecting work in China, 1922 (#77206).

Box 257 of 672

#77276 - #77525. Includes correspondence with R. T. Burge regarding his African expeditions, 1922-1927 (#77501).

Box 258 of 672

#77526 - #77775. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of fishes made by the Albatross during 1907-1910, 1922-1942 (#77756).

Box 259 of 672

#77776 - #77950

Box 260 of 672

#77951 - #78175

Box 261 of 672

#78176 - #78375. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Alabama Central College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1922-1923 (#78238).

Box 262 of 672

#78376 - 478625. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his botanical collecting work in Arizona, 1922 (#78444).

Box 263 of 672

#78626 - #78850. Includes correspondence with Robert Broom regarding his paleontological field work in South Africa, 1922-1923 (#78627).

Box 264 of 672

#78851 - #78925. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #1, "How Prints are Made," 1934-1949 (#78921).

Box 265 of 672

#78926 - #79125

Box 266 of 672

#79126 - #79325. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1922-1923 (#79146).

Box 267 of 672

#79326 - #79525. Includes correspondence with Theodore D. A. Cockerell regarding a proposed collecting trip to Siberia, 1923 (#79432); correspondence with Charles R. Aschemeier and Arthur H. Fisher concerning their collecting expedition to the Amazon River basin in Brazil, 1923 (#79435).

Box 268 of 672

#79526 - #79713. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1923-1924 (#79577).

Box 269 of 672

#79714. Contains correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM, Traveling Exhibit #2, "How Prints are Made," 1923-1948.

Box 270 of 672

#79715 - #79900

Box 271 of 672

#79901 - #80125

Box 272 of 672

#80126 - #80375

Box 273 of 672

#80376 - #80575

Box 274 of 672

#80576 - #80775. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Alabama College, Montevallo, Alabama, 1923-1930 (#80761).

Box 275 of 672

#80776 - #80950. Includes correspondence with Paul Carpenter Standley regarding his botanical field work in Panama and Costa Rica, 1923-1924 (#80941).

Box 276 of 672

#80951 - #81150

Box 277 of 672

#81151 - #81250. Includes correspondence regarding the death of Charles N. Hoy, who was collecting natural history specimens for the USNM in China, 1923-1924 (#81206); correspondence regarding a joint effort between the SI and the state of Pennsylvania resulting in the publication of "The Smithsonian Institution's Study of Natural Resources Applied to Pennsylvania's Resources," by Samuel S. Wyer (1923), 1922-1926 (#81206).

Box 278 of 672

#81251 - #81450. Includes correspondence and publications concerning the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, including criticism by George P. Merrill, 1923 (#81409).

Box 279 of 672

#81451 - #81675. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1923-1924 (#81600).

Box 280 of 672

#81676 - #81875. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1924 (#81833).

Box 281 of 672

#81876 - #82100

Box 282 of 672

#82101 - #82300

Box 283 of 672

#82301 - #82500. Includes correspondence regarding the Oldroyd Collection of Lincoln relics, 1922-1932 (#82471).

Box 284 of 672

#82501 - #82675. Includes correspondence regarding George Washington relics in the USNM, 1924-1934 (#82646).

Box 285 of 672

#82676 - #82900. Includes correspondence with Lee A. Collins regarding his inventions relating to talking motion pictures, 1924 (#82876).

Box 286 of 672

#82901 - #83125. Includes correspondence with Elizabeth Deichmann regarding her collecting activities in Panama, 1924 (#82910).

Box 287 of 672

#83126 - #83375. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham concerning his collecting activities in China, 1924 (#83203).

Box 288 of 672

#83376 - #83750

Box 289 of 672

#83751 - #84075. Includes correspondence regarding SI participation in the Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1926 (#83791).

Box 290 of 672

#84076 - #84400. Includes correspondence with Kermit Roosevelt regarding ownership of mammal heads and skins he collected on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1924-1925 (#84397).

Box 291 of 672

#84401 - #84625

Box 292 of 672

#84626 - #85050

Box 293 of 672

#85051 - #85425. Includes correspondence with Lincoln Ellsworth concerning his planned participation in the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flying Expedition, 1924 (#85206).

Box 294 of 672

#85426 - #85725. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the second Marsh-Darien Expedition, 1924 (#85487).

Box 295 of 672

#85726 - #86075.

Box 296 of 672

#86076 - #86375. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, containing notes on his trips to Tatienlu and Songpan, 1924-1925 (#86177); correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's trip to the Far East, Australia, and South Africa to conduct physical anthropology studies, 1925. The letter of 14 July 1925 includes Hrdlicka's views on William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Monkey trial (#86192).

Box 297 of 672

#86376 - #86675. Includes correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's "Catalogue of Human Crania in the United States National Museum Collections," 1922-1941. Correspondents include Roland Burrage Dixon (#86402).

Box 298 of 672

#86676 - #86875. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #3, "How Prints are Made," 1932-1948 (#86849).

Box 299 of 672

#86876 - #87275

Box 300 of 672

#87276 - #87625. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting activities in China, 1925 (#87561).

Box 301 of 672

#87626 - #87900

Box 302 of 672

#87901 - #88375. Includes correspondence regarding the death of John L. Baer while serving as Smithsonian representative on the Marsh-Darien Expedition of 1924, 1925 (#88350).

Box 303 of 672

#88376 - #88650

Box 304 of 672

#88651 - #89100

Box 305 of 672

#89101 - #89300. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #4, "How Prints are Made," 1932-1948 (#89127).

Box 306 of 672

#89301 - #89575. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1925 (#89430).

Box 307 of 672

#89576 - #89925. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #6, "How Prints are Made," 1933-1946 (#89796).

Box 308 of 672

#89926 - #90125

Box 309 of 672

#90126 - #90375. Includes correspondence with Charles Torry Simpson regarding his financial assistance of Paul Bartsch's study of West Indian mollusks, 1925-1929 (#90242).

Box 310 of 672

#90376 - #90825

Box 311 of 672

#90826 - #91075

Box 312 of 672

#91076 - #91400. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1925 (#91202).

Box 313 of 672

#91401 - #91600. Includes correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the H. J. Heinz Co. for exhibition at the Heinz Ocean Pier, Atlantic City, N.J., 1926-1931 (#91479); correspondence regarding the Arthur Cleveland Bent collection of birds' eggs in the USNM, 1926-1935 (#91558).

Box 314 of 672

#91601 - #91700. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #5, 1926-1948 (#91682).

Box 315 of 672

#91701 - #92050

Box 316 of 672

#92051 - #92325

Box 317 of 672

#92326 - #92675

Box 318 of 672

#92676 - #92950. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collections made in China, 1926 (#92696).

Box 319 of 672

#92951 - #93200. Includes correspondence with Richard Evelyn Byrd regarding the possible acquisition of the airplane "Josephine Ford," which was used on the Byrd Polar Expedition 1926-1927 (#93043).

Box 320 of 672

#93201 - #93600. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his plans for collecting natural history specimens in China, 1926 (#93281); correspondence regarding the Thomas Jefferson writing desk in the USNM, 1924-1932 (#93330); correspondence regarding the Progress Exposition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1926-1927 (#93340).

Box 321 of 672

#93601 - #93850. Includes reports on paleontological research conducted in Java submitted by the American Consul at Batavia, Java, 1926 (#93634).

Box 322 of 672

#93851 - #94075.

Box 323 of 672

#94076 - #94375

Box 324 of 672

#94376 - #94750

Box 325 of 672

#94751 - #95050. Includes correspondence with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation regarding the possible acquisition by the USNM of a Wright Whirlwind J-5 airplane engine, 1927-1929 (#95032).

Box 326 of 672

#95051 - #95350. Includes correspondence with Frank M. Carpenter regarding his study of the USNM collection of fossil insects, 1926-1928 (#95331).

Box 327 of 672

#95351 - #95598. Includes a report by Hugh McCormick Smith on "The Fish of Siam," submitted by the American Consul at Bangkok, 1926 (#95573); correspondence regarding USNM participation at the International Exposition, Seville, Spain (1927), 1927-1930 (#95591).

Box 328 of 672

#95599 - #95750. Includes a voluminous amount of correspondence with David C. Graham mostly concerning his collecting work for the USNM in Szechwan Province, West China, 1927-1940. Materials of special interest include correspondence regarding the progress of collecting expeditions, financial matters, collections made, and Graham's academic career at the University of Chicago (1927) and Harvard University (1932) (#95599).

Box 329 of 672

#95751 - #96025. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Hastings Museum, Hastings, Nebraska, 1927-1941 (#95802).

Box 330 of 672

#96026 - #96325

Box 331 of 672

#96326 - #96700

Box 332 of 672

#96701 - #97150. Includes correspondence with Walter W. Holmes regarding his collection of fossil bird bones, 1927 (#97136).

Box 333 of 672

#97151 - #97450

Box 334 of 672

#97451 - #97750

Box 335 of 672

#97751 - #98075. Includes correspondence with Childs Frick regarding his financial contributions to James W. Gidley's paleontological field research, 1927 (#97754).

Box 336 of 672

#98076 - #98350

Box 337 of 672

#98351 - #98650

Box 338 of 672

#98651 - #98925. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding restrictions on natural history collecting imposed by the Chinese government, 1927 (#98909).

Box 339 of 672

#98926 - #99200. Includes correspondence with Richard O. Marsh regarding USNM participation in a proposed expedition to South America to rescue the lost aviator Paul Redfern and conduct scientific research, 1927. Correspondents include W. Kenneth Cuyler (#98957).

Box 340 of 672

#99201 - #99475. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia over certain entomological material loaned to Robert D. Glasgow, 1913-1941 (#99402).

Box 341 of 672

#99476 - #99700

Box 342 of 672

#99701 - #99950. Includes correspondence with Harold C. Hallock regarding his study of the USNM entomological collections, 1928-1934 (#99879).

Box 343 of 672

#99951 - #100225. Includes correspondence with the Brush-Swan Electric Light Co. regarding electrical apparatus loaned to the USNM, 1883-1891 (#99962).

Box 344 of 672

#100226 - #100425. Includes correspondence with Henry Woodman regarding a planned anthropological collecting trip to Alaska, 1928 (#100258); correspondence with Henri Coutiere regarding his study of the USNM collection of Alpheidae crustaceans, 1900-1929 (#100397); correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Jamaica, 1928 (#100407).

Box 345 of 672

#100426 - #100700. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, 1928-1931 (#100429); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1928-1942 (#100684).

Box 346 of 672

#100701 - #101050. Includes correspondence regarding the discovery of ancient skeletal material at Palatka, Florida, 1928 (#100925).

Box 347 of 672

#101051 - #101325

Box 348 of 672

#101326 - #101675

Box 349 of 672

#101676 - #101900. Includes correspondence, mostly from the general public, regarding the exhibition of the Spirit of St. Louis in the USNM, 1928-1936 (#101691).

Box 350 of 672

#101901 - #102100. Includes correspondence regarding the collection of first ladies' gowns in the USNM, 1928-1942 (#101909); correspondence regarding the proposed purchase of the Virgil Michael Brand collection of coins, 1928-1930 (#102084).

Box 351 of 672

#102101 - #102400

Box 352 of 672

#102401 - #102575. Includes correspondence regarding the Salmon River Expedition of the State College of Washington, 1928 (#102476); correspondence with Hugo Worch, Honorary Custodian of Musical Instruments, USNM, 1921-1935 (#102520).

Box 353 of 672

#102576 - #102925. Includes correspondence regarding Neil M. Judd's anthropological field work at Folsom, New Mexico, 1928. Correspondents include Barnum Brown and Kirk Bryan (#102602).

Box 354 of 672

#102926 - #103225. Includes correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, 1928-1941 (#103041).

Box 355 of 672

#103226 - #103500. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange of specimens between the USNM and The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1928-1929. Correspondents include Neil M. Judd and C. T. Currelly (#103252). Also included is a report on the American-Brazilian Scientific Expedition to the Amazon Valley submitted by the American Consulate General at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1929 (#103402).

Box 356 of 672

#103501 - #103800. Includes correspondence regarding G. C. Robson's study of the USNM collection of cephalopods, 1928-1929 (#103677).

Box 357 of 672

#103801 - #104125. Includes correspondence on William Ralph Maxon's study of the ferns of Jamaica, 1928-1948 (#104018).

Box 358 of 672

#104126 - #104450

Box 359 of 672

#104451 - #104675. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Haiti, 1929 (#104624).

Box 360 of 672

#104676 - #104950. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Buffalo Aviation Show, Buffalo, New York, 1929 (#104902).

Box 361 of 672

#104951 - #105200. Includes correspondence regarding a joint effort between the USNM and the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, to secure skeletal material at Point Barrow, Alaska, 1929-1946 (#104959); correspondence with Friedrich Ohaus regarding his work on the USNM collection of scarabeid beetles, 1929-1934 (#105193).

Box 362 of 672

#105201 - #105425. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Philippine fishes, 1928-1930 (#105218).

Box 363 of 672

#105426 - #105500. Includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of State containing reports on international scientific activity submitted by American consuls in foreign countries, 1929-1947 (#105478).

Box 364 of 672

#105501 - #105775. Includes correspondence regarding the joint purchase of a meteorite by the USNM and Harvard University, 1929-1930 (#105580).

Box 365 of 672

#105776 - #106050. Includes correspondence regarding Arthur Loveridge's work on the USNM collection of African reptiles, 1926-1931 (#105800).

Box 366 of 672

#106051 - #106325. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of a reference herbarium in the Panama Canal Zone, 1923, 1929-1930 (#106177).

Box 367 of 672

#106326 - #106575

Box 368 of 672

#106576 - #106850

Box 369 of 672

#106851 - #107200

Box 370 of 672

#107201 - #107475

Box 371 of 672

#107476 - #107700. Includes correspondence with Arthur George Bennett regarding his work collecting ornithological specimens for the USNM from the Falkland Islands, 1929-1930 (#107493); correspondence with Charles L. Bernheimer regarding the seventh and eighth Bernheimer Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, 1929-1930 (#107494).

Box 372 of 672

#107701 - #107950. Includes correspondence regarding an aerial survey of prehistoric canal systems bordering the Gila and Salt River Valleys, Arizona, conducted by Neil N. Judd, 1929-1959 (#107910).

Box 373 of 672

#107951 - #108200. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith relative to his collecting work in Siam, 1929-1930 (#107971).

Box 374 of 672

#108201 - #108450. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a radio section in the USNM, 1929-1933 (#108225); a report on archeological excavation of prehistoric ruins in Arizona by Neil M. Judd, 1929 (#108234). Radio Section (USNM)/Radio Museum (#108225)

Box 375 of 672

#108451 - #108675. Includes correspondence with Arthur Torrance regarding a proposed expedition to Central Africa, 1929-1931 (#108526).

Box 376 of 672

#108676 - #108925. Includes correspondence regarding a lost collection of Philippine fishes collected on the Albatross expedition of 1904-1905, 1925-1932 (#108783).

Box 377 of 672

#108926 - #109275. Includes correspondence with Owen Bryant regarding USNM cooperation in working up his entomological collections, 1930. The letter of 3/21/30 from Bryant to John Merton Aldrich contains remarks on his expedition to Java with William Palmer, 1909-1910 (#109253). Also includes correspondence concerning USNM participation in the Printing Exposition, Richmond, Virginia, 1930 (#109261).

Box 378 of 672

#109276 - #109450. Includes correspondence regarding the collecting work of Charles Russell Orcutt and the disposition of his natural history collections from Jamaica and Haiti, 1928-1932 (#109326).

Box 379 of 672

#109451 - #109625. Includes correspondence regarding A. Remington Kellogg's participation at the meeting of the Economic Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, 1930 (#109463).

Box 380 of 672

#109626 - #109950

Box 381 of 672

#109551 - #110050. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the George Washington Bicentennial, 1930-1933 (#110021).

Box 382 of 672

#110051 - #110275. Includes copies of correspondence with Edgar Alexander Mearns regarding his work on the Mexican-United States International Boundary Commission, 1891-1894. Also included are two letters from Frank X. Holzner, while serving on the same commission, 1892 (#110201). Also includes correspondence regarding a controversy between Ales Hrdlicka and Roy L. Moodie, 1930 (#110228).

Box 383 of 672

#110276 - #110525

Box 384 of 672

#110526 - #110875. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of fossil and recent foraminifera, 1930-1946 (#110664).

Box 385 of 672

#110876 - #111075. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting activities in Siam, 1930 (#111002); correspondence regarding a collecting expedition to Alaska by Ales Hrdlicka, 1930 (#111064).

Box 386 of 672

#111076 - #111300. Includes correspondence with Glover Morrill Allen regarding his study of the USNM collection of American bats, 1922-1941 (#111084).

Box 387 of 672

#111301 - #111650

Box 388 of 672

#111651 - #111950

Box 389 of 672

#111951 - #112225

Box 390 of 672

#112226 - #112500

Box 391 of 672

#112501 - #112800

Box 392 of 672

#112801 - #113050. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition at Paris, 1930-1932 (#112921); correspondence with G. M. Dyott regarding the Dyott Brazil Expedition of 1931 (#113021); correspondence regarding the preparation of a bibliography of Asiatic botany by Elmer Drew Merrill and Egbert Hamilton Walker, 1930-1937 (#113025).

Box 393 of 672

#113051 - #113325

Box 394 of 672

#113326 - #113625

Box 395 of 672

#113626 - #113652. Includes correspondence documenting the role of the SI in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, 1931-1935 (#113652).

Box 396 of 672

#113652 (cont'd.) - #113850

Box 397 of 672

#113851 - #114125

Box 398 of 672

#114126 - #114375

Box 399 of 672

#114376 - #114600. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, 1931-1932 (#114393).

Box 400 of 672

#114601 - #114900. Includes a report on the need for an additional building to house the collections of the National Gallery of Art, 1924 (#114658).

Box 401 of 672

#114901 - #115150. Includes correspondence regarding the natural history collections made on the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone (1911-1912), 1927-1932. Most of the correspondence concerns the division of the collections between the USNM and the Field Museum of Natural History (#114963).

Box 402 of 672

#115151 - #115400

Box 403 of 672

#115401 - #115650

Box 404 of 672

#115651 - #115975. Includes correspondence with Charles Elmer Resser regarding his field research in Europe, 1931 (#115880).

Box 405 of 672

#115976 - #116225

Box 406 of 672

#116226 - #116550

Box 407 of 672

#116551 - #116800. Includes correspondence regarding the Isobel H. Lenman collection of Old World Archeology which was loaned to the USNM for exhibit, 1931-1944 (#116769).

Box 408 of 672

#116801 - #117025

Box 409 of 672

#117026 - #117300. Includes correspondence with George Gaylord Simpson regarding his work on the Fort Union collection of vertebrate fossils ir the USNM, 1931-1940 (#117255).

Box 410 of 672

#117301 - #117575. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1931 (#117384); correspondence regarding the collection of American Period Costumes in the USNM, 1914-1933. Correspondents include Rose Gouverneur Hoes (#117574).

Box 411 of 672

#117576 - #117850

Box 412 of 672

#117851 - #118125. Includes correspondence and reports on archeological excavations by the SI in Alaska, 1931-1945 (#117860); correspondence with Robert Hastings Palmer regarding his work collecting birds for the USNM in Cuba, 1931-1932 (#117940).

Box 413 of 672

#118126 - #118325

Box 414 of 672

#118326 - #118575

Box 415 of 672

#118576 - #118875

Box 416 of 672

#118876 - #119150. Includes correspondence with Carl Whiting Bishop of the Freer Gallery of Art regarding his archeological field work in China, 1932 (#119041).

Box 417 of 672

#119151 - #119355. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph A. Holmes Association of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1933-1947. Included are annual reports and minutes of meetings (#119355).

Box 418 of 672

#119356 - #119600. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of foraminifera in Europe, 1932 (#119412); correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1932 (#119496).

Box 419 of 672

#119601 - #119925. Includes correspondence regarding Horace K. Richards' collecting work in Bermuda, 1932 (#119899).

Box 420 of 672

#119926 - #120200. Includes correspondence with Richard Evelyn Byrd regarding efforts by the USNM to secure aeronautical equipment used on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, 1932-1934 (#120108); correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work collecting meteorites for the USNM, 1932 (#120199).

Box 421 of 672

#120201 - #120475. Includes correspondence regarding a collection of fishes collected by the Albatross loaned to Stanford University, 1931-1933. Correspondents include George Sprague Myers, Albert W. Herre, Albert Eide Parr, and Carl Leavitt Hubbs (#120336). #120396 also includes #115984.

Box 422 of 672

#120476 - #120700. Includes correspondence with Ermine Cowles Case regarding his work on fossil birds, 1932-1933 (#120689).

Box 423 of 672

#120701 - #120950

Box 424 of 672

#120951 - #121225. Includes correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work collecting meteorites for the USNM, 1932 (#121068).

Box 425 of 672

#121226 - #121450. Includes correspondence regarding loans and gifts from the USNM to the Kingman Memorial Museum of Natural History, Battle Creek (Michigan) Public Schools, 1924-1935 (#121426). #121426 also includes numbers 82299 and 134428.

Box 426 of 672

#121451 - #121725

Box 427 of 672

#121726 - #121975

Box 428 of 672

#121976 - #122200

Box 429 of 672

#122201 - #122450

Box 430 of 672

#122451 - #122675

Box 431 of 672

#122676 - #122950. Includes correspondence concerning the sale of two generators used by Thomas Alva Edison during his first demonstration of incandescent electric lighting in 1874, 1933-1937 (#122898).

Box 432 of 672

#122951 - #123175. Includes correspondence with Frank M. Setzler regarding his archeological investigations in southwestern Texas and Louisiana, 1933 (#123162).

Box 433 of 672

#123176 - #123450

Box 434 of 672

#123451 - #123700

Box 435 of 672

#123701 - #123900. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1933 (#123802).

Box 436 of 672

#123901 - #124150. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1932-1935 (#123926); correspondence regarding a gift of German World War I material sent to the Guam Museum from the USNM, 1933 (#124005).

Box 437 of 672

#124151 - #124425

Box 438 of 672

#124426 - #124750. Includes correspondence regardingthe Pacific Entomological Survey of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, 1933-1934 (#124431).

Box 439 of 672

#124751 - #125000

Box 440 of 672

#125001 - #125250. Includes correspondence with Charles A. Lindbergh regarding an agreement with the Missouri Historical Society to exhibit his collection of personal memorabilia, 1933 (#125225).

Box 441 of 672

#125251 - #125550

Box 442 of 672

#125551 - #125875

Box 443 of 672

#125876 - #126150. Includes correspondence regarding an attempt by the USNM to secure the Nordenskiold Mesa Verde Collection from the Finnish National Museum by way of an exchange, 1932-1935 (#125980).

Box 444 of 672

#126151 - #126425

Box 445 of 672

#126426 - #126700

Box 446 of 672

#126701 - #127000

Box 447 of 672

#127001 - #127350

Box 448 of 672

#127351 - #127675. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph Nelson Rose Collection of living cacti, 1933-1937 (#127647).

Box 449 of 672

#127676 - #127925

Box 450 of 672

#127926 - #128300. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1934-1935 (#128276).

Box 451 of 672

#128301 - #128600

Box 452 of 672

#128601 - #128800. Includes correspondence with T. Wayland Vaughan regarding USNM activities in oceanography, including the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition, 1933-1934 (#128697); correspondence with Joseph J. Hall of the Florida Archeological Society regarding the Civil Works Administration's archeological work in Florida under the direction of the SI, 1934 (#128748).

Box 453 of 672

#128801 - #129100. Includes material regarding specimens transferred from the Army Medical Museum to the USNM, 1877-1878 (#128876); correspondence with J. Neilson Berry regarding his anthropological investigations in Oregon and Washington, 1934-1935 (#129068); correspondence regarding a cooperative arrangement between the SI and George Washington University to exhibit the Osborne collection of Guatemalan textiles in the USNM, 1933-1934 (#129096).

Box 454 of 672

#129101 - #129375

Box 455 of 672

#129376 - #129650

Box 456 of 672

#129651 - #130000. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his study of fishes from the tropical Indian Ocean in the USNM collections, 1933-1934 (#129717); correspondence with Avery R. Grant regarding her work on the USNM collection of acmaea, 1934-1937 (#129884).

Box 457 of 672

#130001 - #130250. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of bottom samples collected on the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition, 1934 (#130076).

Box 458 of 672

#130251 - #130675

Box 459 of 672

#130676 - #130925

Box 460 of 672

#130926 - #131175. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904-1906, 1959 (#131110).

Box 461 of 672

#131176 - #131475

Box 462 of 672

#131476 - #131775. Includes correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work and research on meteorites, 1934-1935 (#131654).

Box 463 of 672

#131776 - #132109

Boxes 464-469 of 672

#132110. USNM-U.S. Treasury Department correspondence, 1935-1960. Most of the material is directed to the Division of History, USNM, and contains requests for numismatic information.

Box 470 of 672

#132111 - #132500

Box 471 of 672

#132501 - #132825

Box 472 of 672

#132826 - #133000

Box 473 of 672

#133001 - #133325. Includes correspondence concerning a collecting trip to Arkansas by Edward P. Henderson, 1935 (#133222).

Box 474 of 672

#133326 - #133600

Box 475 of 672

#133601 - #133900

Box 476 of 672

#133901 - #134200

Box 477 of 672

#134201 - #134425

Box 478 of 672

#134426 - #134600. Includes records documenting Smithsonian involvement at the California-Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935 (#134568).

Box 479 of 672

#134601 - #134950

Box 480 of 672

#134951 - #135375

Box 481 of 672

#135376 - #135625

Box 482 of 672

#135626 - #135900. Includes correspondence with T. Wayland Vaughan regarding his work on the USNM coral collections, 1935-1936 (#135745); correspondence with Ellsworth Paine Killip regarding a collecting trip to Europe, 1935 (#135798).

Box 483 of 672

#135901 - #136225

Box 484 of 672

#136226 - #136550

Box 485 of 672

#136551 - #136850

Box 486 of 672

#136851 - #137250

Box 487 of 672

#137251 - #137550

Box 488 of 672

#137551 - #137800

Box 489 of 672

#137801 - #138100. Includes correspondence concerning Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr.'s, work on the Holt collection of birds from northern South America in the USNM, 1936-1940 (#138078).

Box 490 of 672

#138101 - #138400

Box 491 of 672

#138401 - #138750. Includes correspondence concerning Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr.'s, work on the Holt collection of birds from northern South America, 1936-1938 (#138436).

Box 492 of 672

#138751 - #139000. Includes incoming correspondence of Charles Rau, 1877-1880 (#138804-138806); correspondence regarding an agreement between the USNM and the National Museum of Costa Rica to pursue paleontological field work in Costa Rica, 1936-1937 (#138919); correspondence with James E. Benedict regarding Samuel P. Langley's aerodrome experiments, 1936 (#138979).

Box 493 of 672

#139001 - #139300

Box 494 of 672

#139301 - #139650

Box 495 of 672

#139651 - #140025. Includes correspondence concerning the Annie M. Hegerman lace and textile collection in the USNM, 1936-1937 (#139661).

Box 496 of 672

#140026 - #140300. Includes records documenting Smithsonian involvement at the Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, 1936 (#140207 and #140208).

Box 497 of 672

#140301 - #140550. Includes correspondence concerning a projected expedition to Algeria by Herbert Friedmann, 1936 (#140406); correspondence with Erwin P. Dieseldorff regarding his research on Mayan archeology in Guatemala and Honduras, 1936-1938 (#140424).

Box 498 of 672

#140551 - #140975. Includes material concerning a field trip by Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., to examine Chickasaw village sites in Mississippi and Louisiana, 1938 (#140684).

Box 499 of 672

#140976 - #141300

Box 500 of 672

#141301 - #141600

Box 501 of 672

#141601 - #141875. Includes correspondence and other records concerning Herbert Girton Deignan's collecting work in Siam, 1936-1937 (#141686); correspondence concerning the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition to the West Indies of 1933, 1936-1937, 1941 (#141834).

Box 502 of 672

#141876 - #142200. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding collecting work in China, 1931 and 1936 (#141879).

Box 503 of 672

#142201 - #142625.

Box 504 of 672

#142626 - #142925. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to recover botanical specimens loaned to Charles University, Praha, Czechoslovakia, 1937, 1947-1949 (#142697).

Box 505 of 672

#142926 - #143175. Includes correspondence regarding Stanley John's work collecting birds for the USNM in the British West Indies, 1935-1938 (#143011).

Box 506 of 672

#143176 - #143450

Box 507 of 672

#143451 - #143800. Includes correspondence concerning Smithsonian involvement in the New York World's Fair of 1939, 1937-1938 (#143711).

Box 508 of 672

#143801 - #144550

Box 509 of 672

#144551 - #144900. Includes correspondence regarding archeological field work in Arizona by Charles W. Gilmore and Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 1937 (#144740).

Box 510 of 672

#144901 - #145350

Box 511 of 672

#145351 - #145750

Box 512 of 672

#145751 - #146300. Includes correspondence from W. T. White to Spencer F. Baird, 1884 (#145822).

Box 513 of 672

#146301 - 146925

Box 514 of 672

#146926 - #147725

Box 515 of 672

#147726 - #148200. Includes correspondence from J. M. Allen to Spencer F. Baird, 1884 (#147808).

Box 516 of 672

#148201 - #148475

Box 517 of 672

#148476 - #149100

Box 518 of 672

#149101 - #149400

Box 519 of 672

#149401 - #149900. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to purchase the Ward-Coonley meteorite collection, 1907-1909 (#149485); correspondence concerning archeological field work in Texas by Frank M. Setzler and Laurence L. Wilson, 1938 (#149521); correspondence with Frank C. Baker regarding his work on the USNM mollusk collections, 1938-1941 (#149626).

Box 520 of 672

#149901 - #150450. Includes correspondence regarding SI involvement at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 (#150324). Loaned out 1980.

Box 521 of 672

#150451 - #150950. Includes correspondence regarding SI involvement at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 (#150716).

Box 522 of 672

#150951 - #151400

Box 523 of 672

#151401 - #151775. Includes correspondence concerning Doris Mabel Cochran's investigation of reptile collections in European museums, 1938-1939 (#151451).

Box 524 of 672

#151776 - #152250

Box 525 of 672

#152251 - #152775

Box 526 of 672

#152776 - #153250. Includes correspondence regarding the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Archeological Expedition to Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1938-1939. Also included is material concerning subsequent investigations at Vera Cruz by Matthew William Stirling sponsored by the National Geographical Society and SI, 1940-1941 (#152793).

Box 527 of 672

#153251 - #153600. Includes correspondence concerning SI involvement in the proposed National Geographic Society - University of Virginia Expedition to the South Pacific Islands, 1939 (#153379).

Box 528 of 672

#153601 - #153950

Box 529 of 672

#153951 - #154575

Box 530 of 672

#154576 - #155125

Box 531 of 672

#155126 - #155575. Includes correspondence regarding archeological field work by Walter W. Taylor, Jr., at Coahuila, Mexico, under the auspices of the USNM, 1940-1941, 1940-1945 (#155393); correspondence concerning the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #7, "How Prints are Made," 1939-1948 (#155540).

Box 532 of 672

#155576 - #156400

Box 533 of 672

#156401 - #156900

Box 534 of 672

#156901 - #157600

Box 535 of 672

#157601 - #158125

Box 536 of 672

#158126 - #158625

Box 537 of 672

#158626 - #159300

Box 538 of 672

#159301 - #159775. Includes correspondence with Edward Deming Andrews regarding the possible donation of a collection of Shaker artifacts to the USNM, 1941, 1957-1959 (#159587).

Box 539 of 672

#159776 - #160425

Box 540 of 672

#160426 - #160950

Box 541 of 672

#160951 - #161600

Box 542 of 672

#161601 - #162150. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham concerning an offer to collect ethnological specimens in China for the USNM, 194l (#162001).

Box 543 of 672

#162151 - #162550. Includes correspondence regarding the Charles Fuller Baker entomological collection, which was bequeathed to the USNM, 1924-1928. The material consists of correspondence to Baker regarding his collections and efforts by the USNM to recover specimens on loan before Baker's death (#162155 and #162156).

Box 544 of 672

#162551 - #162787. Includes correspondence and other records documenting Smithsonian activities during World War II. This box contains general correspondence, 1941-1942, mostly concerning the evacuation of USNM collections, library materials, and documents from Washington, D.C. to National Park Service facilities at Luray, Virginia, and the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia (#162787).

Box 545 of 672

#162787. Includes general correspondence, 1943-1945 concerning the evacuation of collections and their eventual return; information provided to war agencies by USNM staff; and the exhibition of war materials by the USNM. Also included is correspondence with the Committee on the Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1941-1944.

Box 546 of 672

#162787. Includes correspondence regarding the Ethnogeographic Board, 1942-1944; the Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on Protection of Cultural Resources in War Areas, 1943-1945; the "U.S.O. Guide Service," 1942-1944; the SI War Savings Bond Drive, 1942-1944; Selective Service status of SI and USNM employees, 1942-1943; and the "Government Girl War Plane Drive," 1943. Also includes travel vouchers, expense accounts, and shipping invoices, 1942-1944; photographs of SI evacuation facilities at Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Virginia; and publications concerning air raid procedures and the protection of cultural resources during war time.

Box 547 of 672

#162787. Includes publications concerning museum protection and technological mobilization.

Box 548 of 672

#162787. Lists of specimens evacuated from the Division of Mollusks, USNM.

Box 549 of 672

#162787. Lists of cenozoic invertebrates evacuated from USNM collections.

Box 550 of 672

#162787. Includes lists of type specimens evacuated from the Division of Birds and the Department of Geology, USNM.

Box 551 of 672

#162788 - #163125

Box 552 of 672

#163126 - #163575

Box 553 of 672

#163576 - #164150

Box 554 of 672

#164151 - #164725. Includes correspondence with W. M. Hutchinson regarding a controversy concerning the authenticity of the Eli Whitney cotton gin in the USNM, 1943-1944 (#164319).

Box 555 of 672

#164726 - #165375

Box 556 of 672

#165376 - #166025. Includes correspondence regarding an expedition to Venezuela by Ellsworth Paine Killip under the auspice

Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution

Record Unit 192 United States National Museum, Permanent Administrative Files, 1877-1975

By William Cox

INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL NOTE

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

Record Unit 192
United States National Museum,
Permanent Administrative Files,
1877-1975