Series 1. PHOTOGRAPHS, CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL GEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS, CIRCA 1800-1920.
Series 2. PHOTOGRAPHS OF GROUPS OF GEOLOGISTS, SCIENTISTS AND SMITHSONIAN STAFF, CIRCA 1860-1930.
Series 3. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES (HAYDEN SURVEYS), CIRCA 1871-1877.
Series 4. PHOTOGRAPHS AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SUBJECTS, UNDATED.
Series 5. PHOTOGRAPHS OF BUILDINGS, MOSTLY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., UNDATED.
Series 6. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1885-1929 AND UNDATED.
George P. Merrill (1854-1929) graduated from the University of Maine in 1879
with a B.S. degree in chemistry and then accepted a teaching position at
Wesleyan University. There he became acquainted with George Brown Goode, who
helped curate Wesleyan's museum collections in addition to administering the
United States National Museum (USNM). Later, Merrill earned his M.S., 1883,
and Ph.D., 1889, degrees from the University of Maine. In 1917 he received an
honorary Sc.D. degree from The George Washington University where he was
professor of Mineralogy and Geology from 1893 to 1916. In the winter of
1880-1881 Merrill was appointed aide at the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
In July 1881 he transferred to the USNM where he was employed as an aide in
the Department of Mineralogy. The following year he was promoted to assistant
in the Department's Section of Building Stones. Subsequently, he held
positions as acting curator, Department of Lithology and Physical Geology,
1883-1885; curator, Department of Lithology and Physical Geology, 1886- 1890;
curator, Department of Geology, 1890-1916; curator, Division of Physical and
Chemical Geology (Systematics and Applied), 1898-1929; and head curator,
Department of Geology, 1917-1929. Merrill pioneered in the study of
using stone for building purposes and in the study of the process of rock
weathering. Later, he applied petrology to the study of meteorites. In
addition to his scientific work, Merrill was a historian of North American
geology. In connection with his two works on the history of American geology,
"Contributions to the History of American Geology" (Report of the United
States National Museum for 1904, pp. 189-733) and The First One Hundred
Years of American Geology (1924), Merrill assembled a collection of
photographs and correspondence, with many of the photographs and portraits
appearing in this collection. Series 1 includes photographs, portraits, and correspondence collected by
Merrill for the above publications. Series 2 through 5 include photographs of
groups, particularly of the United States Geological and Geographical Surveys
of the Territories (Hayden Surveys); and photographs of geological formations
and of buildings in the Washington, D.C. area. Series 6 includes Merrill's
professional correspondence as curator at the USNM concerning the exchange and
identification of gems and meteorites, expositions and exhibits, and the
administration of the USNM and its Department of Geology and Department of
Lithology and Physical Geology. The following lists index
correspondence found in the authors' folders in series 1 and received by James
Hall, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, and George P. Merrill. Other correspondence
in series 1 is indexed by both author and recipient in the Archives' computer
index. Merrill's professional correspondence in Series 6 is indexed by
author. Correspondence to James Hall: see Charles Baker Adams, Jean
Louis Agassiz, Spencer F. Baird, William Thomas Blanford, John Collett,
Timothy Abbott Conrad, James Deane, Amos Eaton, John Wells Foster, Augustus
Addison Gould, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, William Frank Eugene Gurley, Joseph
Henry, Clarence Luther Herrick, John Frederick William Herschel, Clarence
King, Increase Allen Lapham, Albert Ripley Leeds, John Peter Lesley, John
Locke, Charles Lyell, Beriju N. Martin, Archibald R. Marvine, William Williams
Mather, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Elisha Mitchell, John M. Murrish, John Strong
Newberry, David Dale Owen, John B. Perry, Benjamin Peirce, William C.
Redfield, Henry Darwin Rogers, James Blythe Rogers, Zadock Thompson, John
Torrey, Lardner Vanuxem, Charles M. Wheatley and Jeffries Wyman. Correspondence to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden: see Harrison Allen, Joel Asaph
Allen, Samuel Aughey, Joachim Barrande, Charles Barrois, William Phipps Blake,
William H. Brewer, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Robert Collett, Edward Drinker
Cope, Elliott Coues, James Dwight Dana, George M. Dawson, Henry Draper,
Frederick M. Endlich, George T. Engelmann, Richard Etheridge, Archibald Geikie,
Hanns Bruno Geinitz, George Gibbs, Daniel Coit Gilman, August Radcliffe Grote,
Arnold Henry Guyot, Herman August Hagen, Samuel Stehman Haldemann, Charles F.
Hartt, George W. Hawes, Oswald Heer, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, Edward Singleton
Holden, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Eben Norton Horsford, Alpheus Hyatt, Roland Duer
Irving, Samuel William Johnson, August A. von Kollicker, L. de Koninck, John
Lawrence LeConte, Joseph Leidy, Joshua Lindahl, George Little, Archibald
Liversidge, Chester Smith Lyman, John Lynch, Joseph Vander Maelen, Jules
Marcou, Othniel Charles Marsh, Fielding Bradford Meek, Benjamin Franklin
Mudge, John Strong Newberry, Henry Newton, Hubert Anson Newton, William Harmon
Niles, Richard Owen, John Wesley Powell, Joseph Prestwich, Ferdinand von
Richtofen, Charles Valentine Riley, Henry Darwin Rogers, William Barton
Rogers, Philip Lutley Sclater, Harry Govier Seeley, Benjamin Franklin Shumard,
Benjamin Silliman, Jr., Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Edward Suess, Joseph Szabo,
William Petit Trowbridge, Franz Ritter von Havery, William Dwight Whitney,
Charles Whittlesey, Alexander Newton Winchell, Amos Henry Worthen and Karl
Afred von Zittel. Correspondence to George P. Merrill: see Cleveland
Abbe, Frank Dawson Adams, Wilbur Olin Atwater, A. B. Aubest, Charles Babcock,
Ray S. Bassler, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Charles Emerson Beecher, Albert Smith
Bickmore, William Phipps Blake, John Caspar Branner, Garland Carr Broadhead,
George Jarvis Brush, Samuel Calvin Giovanni Capellini, Thomas Chrowder
Chamberlin, William Bullock Clark, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Edward Waller
Claypole, Emil Cohen, George Hammell Cook, Edward Travers Cox, Alja Robinson
Crook, William Otis Crosby, Charles Whitman Cross, Thomas Nelson Dale, William
H. Dall, Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana, John William Dawson, David
T. Day, Orville A. Derby, Joseph Silas Diller, Edwin Theodore Dumble, Thomas
Egleston, George Homans Eldridge, Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Samuel Franklin
Emmons, Herman Leroy Fairchild, Edward Holyoke Farrington, Oliver Cummings
Farrington, Charles Henry Fernald, Merritt Caldwell Fernald, Lazarus Fletcher,
Persifor Frazer, Anton Fritsch, Grove Karl Gilbert, Frank Austin Gooch, George
Brown Goode, Leon S. Griswold, Arnold Hague, Christopher Webster Hall, William
Hallock, Alfred Harker, Abram Winegardner Harris, George W. Hawes, Robert Hay,
Rubit J. Hill, William Herbert Hobbs, Joseph A. Holmes, William Henry Holmes,
Joseph Paxson Iddings, John Wesley Judd, Orange Judd, Alexis Anastay Julien,
James Furman Kemp, Washington Carruthers Kerr, Karl Kraepelin, Samuel P.
Langley, Isaac Lea, John Peter Lesley, Henry Carvill Lewis, Joshua Lindahl,
Marshall McDonald, Jules Marcou, Otis Tufton Mason, Frederick James Hamilton
Merrill, Mansfield Merriman, Adolf B. Meyer, Edward Williams Morley, Charles
Edward Munroe, Edward Francis Baxter Orton, Albert Charles Peale, Richard
Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr., James Constantine Pilling, Louis Valentine
Pirsson, Daniel Webster Prentiss, John Robert Procter, Charles Smith Prosser,
Raphael Pumpelly, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Hans Reusch, William Jones
Rhees, William North Rice, Carl Ludwig Rominger, Israel C. Russell, James
Merrill Safford, Frank Lamson Scribner, Joseph William Winthrop Spencer, Frank
Springer, Timothy Wilson Stanton, Leonhard Stejneger, John James Stevenson,
Ralph Stockman Tarr, William B. Taylor, William Petit Trowbridge, Frederick
William True, Peter Tscherwinsky, Charles D. Walcott, Henry Augustus Ward, J.
E. Watkins, Walter Harvey Weed, James Clarke Welling, Thomas C. Weston, Charles
Abiathar White, David White, Theodore G. White, George Huntington Williams,
Henry Shaler Williams, J. Francis Williams, Bailey Willis, Thomas Wilson,
Alexander Newton Winchell, Henry Woodward and William S. Yeates. Includes, in some cases, folders with photograph or published print of individual on one side and sample of individual's correspondence on facing side. All correspondence is noted in the folder listing and indexed by both author and recipient in the Archives' computer index. Box 1 of 24
INTRODUCTION
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HISTORICAL NOTE
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1.
PHOTOGRAPHS, CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL GEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS, CIRCA 1800-1920.
| Folder | 1 | Cleveland Abbe. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 2 | Charles Conrad Abbott. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1889. | |
| Folder | 3 | Othenio Abel. | |
| Folder | 4 | John James Abert. Includes letter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1851. | |
| Folder | 5 | Brooks Adams. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1903. | |
| Folder | 6 | Charles Baker Adams. Includes letter to James Hall, 1847. | |
| Folder | 7 | Frank Dawson Adams. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1899. | |
| Folder | 8 | Robert Adams, Jr. | |
| Folder | 9 | Alexander Agassiz. | |
| Folder | 10 | Jean Louis Agassiz. Includes letters to James Hall, n. d., 1847 and 1868. | |
| Folder | 11 | John H. Alexander. Includes letter to Count Demenos, 1842. | |
| Folder | 12 | Harrison Allen. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874. | |
| Folder | 13 | Joel Asaph Allen. Includes letters to George Brown Goode, 1881 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 14 | James B. Angell. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, n. d. | |
| Folder | 15 | Thomas Antisell. Includes a fragment of a contract. | |
| Folder | 16 | Dominique Francois Jean Arago. | |
| Folder | 17 | Charles Albert Ashburner. Includes letter to Charles Dewey, 1885. | |
| Folder | 18 | Edward Atkinson. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 19 | Wilbur Olin Atwater. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1885. | |
| Folder | 20 | A. B. Aubest. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1884. | |
| Folder | 21 | Samuel Aughey. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 22 | Charles Babcock. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 23 | Alexander Dallas Bache. Includes letter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1837. | |
| Folder | 24 | Spencer F. Baird. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1876 and 1877; James Hall, 1849 and Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1883. | |
| Folder | 25 | Joseph Bart Banks. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1800. | |
| Folder | 26 | George Frederick Barker. Includes letter to George W. Hawes, 1881. | |
| Folder | 27 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 28 | Joachim Barrande. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 29 | Joseph Barrell. | |
| Folder | 30 | Charles Barrois. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 31 | John Greer Bartram. | |
| Folder | 32 | William Bartram. | |
| Folder | 33 | Ray S. Bassler. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1906. | |
| Folder | 34 | John Homer Beaman. | |
| Folder | 35 | Tarleton Hoffman Bean. Includes letter to George P. Merrill 1884. | |
| Folder | 36 | Gustavus R. Bechler. | |
| Folder | 37 | Theodric Romeyn Beck. Includes letter to Asa Fitch, 1849. | |
| Folder | 38 | Charles Emerson Beecher. Includes letter to George P Merrill, 1890. | |
| Folder | 39 | Marcus Benjamin | |
| Folder | 40 | Fritz Berwerth. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1901. | |
| Folder | 41 | Albert Smith Bickmore. Includes letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1883 and George P. Merrill, 1892 and 1893. | |
| Folder | 42 | Elkanah Billings. Includes letter to Isaac Lea, 1866. | |
| Folder | 43 | William Phipps Blake. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877 and George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 44 | W. T. Blanford. Includes letter to James Hall, 1896. | |
| Folder | 45 | Johan Friedrich Blumenbach. Includes letter to Tilejius, 1808. | |
| Folder | 46 | Henry Carrington Bolton. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 47 | James Curtis Booth. Includes letter to Benjamin W. Austin, 1887. | |
| Folder | 48 | Nathaniel Bowditch. | |
| Folder | 49 | Frank H. Bradley. | |
| Folder | 50 | John Caspar Branner. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1897. | |
| Folder | 51 | William H. Brewer. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1872. | |
| Folder | 52 | David Brewster. | |
| Folder | 53 | Daniel Garrison Brinton. Includes letters to Otis Tufton Mason, 1891 and 1893. |
Box 2 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Garland Carr Broadhead. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1886. | |
| Folder | 2 | Aulonia Brogger. | |
| Folder | 3 | Waldemar Christopher Brogger. | |
| Folder | 4 | Thomas Benton Brooks. Includes letter to "Alfred", 1893. | |
| Folder | 5 | William Keith Brooks. Includes letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1885 and anonymous correspondent, n. d. | |
| Folder | 6 | James Stanley Brown. | |
| Folder | 7 | William George Brown. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1882. | |
| Folder | 8 | Archibald Bruce. | |
| Folder | 9 | George Jarvis Brush. Includes letters to anonymous correspondent, 1883 and George P. Merrill, 1883. | |
| Folder | 10 | William Buckland. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 11 | Robert Wilhelm Eberard von Bunsen. | |
| Folder | 12 | C. G. Bush. | |
| Folder | 13 | Samuel Calvin. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1888, 1895, and 1898. | |
| Folder | 14 | Giovanni Capellini. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1906. | |
| Folder | 15 | Matthew Carey. | |
| Folder | 16 | William L. Carpenter. | |
| Folder | 17 | L. T. Chamberlain. | |
| Folder | 18 | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1892 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 19 | George B. Chittenden. | |
| Folder | 20 | David Christy. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1851. | |
| Folder | 21 | William Bullock Clark. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 22 | Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1896 and 1897. | |
| Folder | 23 | John Mason Clarke. | |
| Folder | 24 | Samuel Fessenden Clarke. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1889. | |
| Folder | 25 | Edward Waller Claypole. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1898 and Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 26 | Parker Cleaveland. Includes letters to George Clinton Swallow, 1850; J. Wightman, 1846 and M. Gore, 1834. | |
| Folder | 27 | Clarence Bud Cleland. | |
| Folder | 28 | Emil Cohen. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1902. | |
| Folder | 29 | John Collett. Includes letters to James Hall, 1881 and 1897. | |
| Folder | 30 | Robert Collett. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vardiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 31 | Timothy Abbott Conrad. Includes letter to James Hall, 1838. | |
| Folder | 32 | George Hammell Cook. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1875 and George P. Merrill, 1884. | |
| Folder | 33 | Josiah Parsons Cooke. Includes letters to Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, 1886 and anonymous correspondent, 1886. | |
| Folder | 34 | Thomas Cooper. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1813. | |
| Folder | 35 | Edward Drinker Cope. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874 and 1878. | |
| Folder | 36 | Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier. | |
| Folder | 37 | Darius Nash Couch. | |
| Folder | 38 | Elliott Coues. Includes letters to Frank Hall Knowlton, 1893; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875 and anonymous correspondent, n.d. | |
| Folder | 39 | John Merle Coulter. | |
| Folder | 40 | Edward Travers Cox. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 41 | James Croll. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1883. | |
| Folder | 42 | Alja Robinson Crook. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1900. | |
| Folder | 43 | William Otis Crosby. Includes letter to George P. Merrill 1895. | |
| Folder | 44 | Charles Whitman Cross. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1889. | |
| Folder | 45 | James Langon Curtin. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 46 | Frank Hamilton Cushing. Includes letter to George J. Becker, 1897. | |
| Folder | 47 | Joseph A. Cushman. | |
| Folder | 48 | G. Frederic Cuvier. |
Box 3 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Thomas Nelson Dale. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 2 | William H. Dall. Includes letters to Otis Tufton Mason, 1884 and George P. Merrill, 1900 and 1902. | |
| Folder | 3 | Edward S. Dana. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 4 | James Dwight Dana. Includes letters to George W. Hawes, 1881; George P. Merrill, 1888 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1872, 1876 and 1877 and postcard to George P. Merrill, 1886. | |
| Folder | 5 | Samuel Luther Dana. | |
| Folder | 6 | Jean Pierre Joseph D'Arcet. | |
| Folder | 7 | Nelson Horatio Darton. | |
| Folder | 8 | Charles Darwin. Includes letters to anonymous correspondents, n.d. and 1875. | |
| Folder | 9 | George Howard Darwin. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1907. | |
| Folder | 10 | George Davidson. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, n.d. | |
| Folder | 11 | George M. Dawson. Includes letters to Smithsonian Institution, 1883 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 12 | John William Dawson. Includes letters to anonymous correspondent, 1893 and George P. Merrill, 1886 and 1877. | |
| Folder | 13 | David T. Day. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1904. | |
| Folder | 14 | James Deane. Includes letter to James Hall, 1848. | |
| Folder | 15 | Leopold De Buch. | |
| Folder | 16 | Deodat Guy Sylvain Tancrede Gratet De Dolomieu. | |
| Folder | 17 | Marin De France. | |
| Folder | 18 | Orville A. Derby. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1890. | |
| Folder | 19 | Horace Benedict De Saussure. | |
| Folder | 20 | Nicholas Desmarest. | |
| Folder | 21 | Gustave De Walque. Includes letters to anonymous correspondents, 1876 and 1877. | |
| Folder | 22 | Joseph Silas Diller. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n.d. | |
| Folder | 23 | William Stephen Disbrow. | |
| Folder | 24 | Henry Draper. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 25 | John W. Draper. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1879. | |
| Folder | 26 | Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas. | |
| Folder | 27 | Edwin Theodore Dumble. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 28 | Clarence Edward Dutton. | |
| Folder | 29 | James Buchanan Eads. Includes message to John A. Logan, n. d. | |
| Folder | 30 | Henry H. Eames. | |
| Folder | 31 | Amos Eaton. Includes letters to Ebenezer Emmons and James Hall, 1838 and General Howe, 1832. | |
| Folder | 32 | Thomas Egleston. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1875 and George P. Merrill, 1886. | |
| Folder | 33 | Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg. Includes letters to anonymous correspondent, 1840. | |
| Folder | 34 | George Homans Eldridge. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1892. | |
| Folder | 35 | Daniel Giraud Elliott. includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 36 | Henry W. Elliott. | |
| Folder | 37 | Benjamin Kendall Emerson. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, n. d. and 1904. | |
| Folder | 38 | Ebenezer Emmons. Includes letters to anonymous correspondents, n. d. and 1845. | |
| Folder | 39 | Samuel Franklin Emmons. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 40 | Mordecai Thomas Endicott. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, n. d. | |
| Folder | 41 | Frederick M. Endlich. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 42 | George T. Engelmann. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876 and 1878. | |
| Folder | 43 | Henry Engelmann. Includes letter to Fielding Bradford Meek, 1863. | |
| Folder | 44 | John Ericsson. | |
| Folder | 45 | Richard Etheridge. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 46 | John W. Evans. Includes letter to Joseph Paxson Iddings, 1910. |
Box 4 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Herman Leroy Fairchild. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 2 | Michael Faraday. Includes letter to Lieutenant Wilson, 1836. | |
| Folder | 3 | Edward Holyoke Farrington. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 4 | Oliver Cummings Farrington. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1898. | |
| Folder | 5 | George William Featherstonhaugh. Includes letter to Charles R. Vaughan, 1831. | |
| Folder | 6 | Charles Henry Fernald. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1889. | |
| Folder | 7 | Merritt Caldwell Fernald. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1889. | |
| Folder | 8 | J. Walter Fewkes. | |
| Folder | 9 | Cyrus W. Field. Includes letter to Thomas Beals, 1858. | |
| Folder | 10 | Osmond Fisher. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1905 and anonymous correspondent, 1893. | |
| Folder | 11 | Alice Cummingham Fletcher. | |
| Folder | 12 | Lazarus Fletcher. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1901. | |
| Folder | 13 | William Henry Flower. | |
| Folder | 14 | Clarence Burton Folsom, Jr. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1848. | |
| Folder | 15 | William Morris Fontaine. | |
| Folder | 16 | John Wells Foster. Includes letter to H. B. Ruggles, 1836 and James Hall, n. d. | |
| Folder | 17 | Persifor Frazer. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 18 | Edward T. Fristoe. Includes letter to Charles Dewey, 1884. | |
| Folder | 19 | Anton Fritsch. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1899, and n. d. | |
| Folder | 20 | Leonard D. Gale. | |
| Folder | 21 | Henry Gannett. | |
| Folder | 22 | James T. Gardner. | |
| Folder | 23 | John M. Garke. | |
| Folder | 24 | Albert Samuel Gatschet. Includes letter to Otis Tufton Mason, n. d. | |
| Folder | 25 | Archibald Geikie. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 26 | Hanns Bruno Geinitz. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 27 | Frederick Augustus Genth. Includes letter to George W. Hawes, 1881. | |
| Folder | 28 | George Gibbs. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1870 and anonymous correspondent, 1869. | |
| Folder | 29 | Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1881. | |
| Folder | 30 | Grove Karl Gilbert. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1892, 1899 and 1900. | |
| Folder | 31 | Theodore Nicholas Gill. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1874. | |
| Folder | 32 | Daniel Coit Gilman. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 33 | George Herbert Girty. | |
| Folder | 34 | Washington Gladden. Includes letter to Lester Frank Ward, 1892. | |
| Folder | 35 | James Glaisher. | |
| Folder | 36 | Frank Austin Gooch. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1920. | |
| Folder | 37 | George Brown Goode. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. and memo to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 38 | Augustus Addison Gould. Includes letter to James Hall, 1843. | |
| Folder | 39 | Benjamin Apthorp Gould. Includes letters to James Hall, 1858, 1889 and n. d. and Daniel Giraud Elliott, 1868. | |
| Folder | 40 | Asa Gray. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1873. | |
| Folder | 41 | Jacob Green. | |
| Folder | 42 | Robert Philips Greg. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1855. | |
| Folder | 43 | Leon S. Griswold. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1898. | |
| Folder | 44 | August Radcliffe Grote. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 45 | Paul Groth. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1890. | |
| Folder | 46 | William Frank Eugene (Reed) Gurley. Includes letter to James Hall, 1889. | |
| Folder | 47 | Gutenberg. | |
| Folder | 48 | Arnold Henry Guyot. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. |
Box 5 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Ernst Heinrich Haeckel. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1900. | |
| Folder | 2 | Herman August Hagen. Includes letters to Charles Henry Ferrald, 1876 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 3 | Arnold Hague. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 4 | Wilhelm Haidinger. Includes a fragment of a letter, 1859. | |
| Folder | 5 | Samuel Stehman Haldemann. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1879. | |
| Folder | 6 | Horatio Emmons Hale. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 7 | Asaph Hall. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1888. | |
| Folder | 8 | Christopher Webster Hall. Includes letter to George P. Merrill , 1890. | |
| Folder | 9 | James Hall. Includes letter to Charles Schuchert, 1890. | |
| Folder | 10 | William Hallock. Includes letter to George P Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 11 | John Hays Hammond. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 12 | Alfred Harker. Includes letter to George P Merrill, 1901. | |
| Folder | 13 | William Harkness. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 14 | Abram Winegardner Harris. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 15 | Charles F. Hartt. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874. | |
| Folder | 16 | William Henry Harvey. | |
| Folder | 17 | Rene Just Hauy. | |
| Folder | 18 | George W. Hawes. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1881 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 19 | Robert Hay. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 20 | Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1876; Jordan Edgar Cravens, 1878 and anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 21 | Mrs. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. | |
| Folder | 22 | Horace H. Hayden. Includes letter to Parker Cleaveland, 1830. | |
| Folder | 23 | Henry Allen Hazen. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 24 | Oswald Heer. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 25 | Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz. | |
| Folder | 26 | Joseph Henry. Includes notes or photography, n. d. and letters to Fielding Bradford Meek, 1875 and James Hall, 1863. | |
| Folder | 27 | Rudolf Hering. | |
| Folder | 28 | Clarence Luther Herrick. Includes letter to James Hall, 1893 | |
| Folder | 29 | John Frederick William Herschel Includes letter to James Hall, 1862 | |
| Folder | 30 | Eugene Woldemar Hilgard. | |
| Folder | 31 | Julius Erasmus Hilgard. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874 and 1877 | |
| Folder | 32 | Rubit J. Hill. Includes letter to George P. Merrill and Clark, 1889. | |
| Folder | 33 | John K. Hillers. | |
| Folder | 34 | Charles Henry Hitchcock. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 35 | Edward Hitchcock. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1860. | |
| Folder | 36 | William Herbert Hobbs. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1894. | |
| Folder | 37 | Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 38 | Edward Singleton Holden. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876 and 1878. | |
| Folder | 39 | Francis S. Holmes. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1856. | |
| Folder | 40 | Joseph A. Holmes. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1888 and 1890. | |
| Folder | 41 | William Henry Holmes. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 42 | Joseph Dalton Hooker. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 43 | Eben Norton Horsford. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 44 | Douglass Houghton. Includes letter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1844. | |
| Folder | 45 | Edmund Otis Hovey. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1898 and 1917. |
Box 6 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Henry Marion Howe. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1875. | |
| Folder | 2 | Edwin Eugene Howell. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1908. | |
| Folder | 3 | James P. Howley. | |
| Folder | 4 | Bela Hubbard. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1886. | |
| Folder | 5 | Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Includes letter to Otis Tufton Mason, n. d. | |
| Folder | 6 | Oliver Payson Hubbard. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1899. | |
| Folder | 7 | Thomas McKenny Hughes. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 8 | Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. | |
| Folder | 9 | David Carlisle Humphreys. | |
| Folder | 10 | Thomas Sterry Hurt. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 11 | Charles E. Hutton. | |
| Folder | 12 | Thomas Henry Huxley. | |
| Folder | 13 | Alpheus Hyatt. Includes letters to Charles Schuchert, 1894 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874 and 1876. | |
| Folder | 14 | Joseph Paxson Iddings. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1897. | |
| Folder | 15 | John Duer Irving. | |
| Folder | 16 | Roland Duer Irving. Includes letters to George Ferdinand Becker, 1884 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874. | |
| Folder | 17 | Charles Thomas Jackson. Includes letters to Benjamin Silliman, 1845 and Charles Upham Shephard, 1866 | |
| Folder | 18 | William Hicks Jackson. | |
| Folder | 19 | U. P. James. Includes letter to Edward Francis Baxter Orton, 1886. | |
| Folder | 20 | John W. P. Jenks. Includes a fragment of a letter | |
| Folder | 21 | Samuel William Johnson. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1869. | |
| Folder | 22 | Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. Includes letter to Otis Tufton Mason, 1887. | |
| Folder | 23 | David Starr Jordan. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1890. | |
| Folder | 24 | Pierre Louis Jouy. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 25 | Charles A. Joy. Includes letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1884 and William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 26 | John Wesley Judd. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1892. | |
| Folder | 27 | Orange Judd. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1888. | |
| Folder | 28 | Alexis Anastay Julien. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1887. | |
| Folder | 29 | James Furman Kemp. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1898. | |
| Folder | 30 | Washington Caruthers Kerr. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1884. | |
| Folder | 31 | J. H. Kidder. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1881. | |
| Folder | 32 | Edward M. Kindle. | |
| Folder | 33 | Clarence King. Includes a fragment of a letter; postcard to Fielding Bradford Meek, n.d. and letter to James Hall, 1874. | |
| Folder | 34 | Stuart Raeburn Kirk. | |
| Folder | 35 | Randolph Kirkpatrick. | |
| Folder | 36 | Martin Heinrich Klaproth. | |
| Folder | 37 | Tadatsugu Kochibe. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1898. | |
| Folder | 38 | August A. von Kolliker. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 39 | Friedrich Wilhelm George Kohlrausch. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1900. | |
| Folder | 40 | L. de Koninck. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 41 | Bundjiro Koto. Includes letter to Joseph Paxson Iddings, 1920. | |
| Folder | 42 | Karl Kraepelin. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1898. |
Box 7 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Joseph Louis Lagrange. | |
| Folder | 2 | Samuel P. Langley. Includes letter to George P. Merrill 1889. | |
| Folder | 3 | Increase Allen Lapham. Includes letter to Benjamin Kendall Emerson, 1872 and James Hall, 1841. | |
| Folder | 4 | Pierre Simon Graf von Laplace. | |
| Folder | 5 | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. | |
| Folder | 6 | Isaac Lea. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1885; William Phipps Blake, 1876 and anonymous correspondent, 1885. | |
| Folder | 7 | John Lawrence Leconte. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1876; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1858 and anonymous correspondent, 1878. | |
| Folder | 8 | Joseph Leconte. Includes letters to anonymous correspondent, 1877 and Spencer F. Baird, 1883. | |
| Folder | 9 | Albert Ripley Leeds. Includes letter to James Hall, 1876. | |
| Folder | 10 | Joseph Leidy. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1854, 1877 (2) and 1856. | |
| Folder | 11 | John Peter Lesley. Includes postcard to George P. Merrill, 1890 and letters to James Hall, 1856 and John Wesley Powell, 1883. | |
| Folder | 12 | Charles Leo Lesquereux. Includes letter to Lester Frank Ward, 1884. | |
| Folder | 13 | A. Michel Levy. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1896. | |
| Folder | 14 | Henry Carvill Lewis. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1885 (2). | |
| Folder | 15 | Francis Lieber. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1891. | |
| Folder | 16 | Justus von Liebig. | |
| Folder | 17 | Josua Lindahl. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877 and George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 18 | J. C. Escher De La Linth. | |
| Folder | 19 | George Little. includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 20 | Archivald Liversidge. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 21 | John Locke. Includes letter to James Hall, 1849. | |
| Folder | 22 | William Edmond Logan. Includes letters to James Hall, 1861 and 1857. | |
| Folder | 23 | Elias Loomis. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1885. | |
| Folder | 24 | Joseph Lovering. Includes letters to William Jones Rhees, 1883 and Spencer F. Baird, 1885. | |
| Folder | 25 | John Lubbock. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1907. | |
| Folder | 26 | Charles Lyell. Includes letter to Cogswell, n.d. and James Hall, 1847. | |
| Folder | 27 | Chester Smith Lyman. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875. | |
| Folder | 28 | John Lynch. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1873. | |
| Folder | 29 | George B. McClellan. | |
| Folder | 30 | Marshall McDonald. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 31 | James Rieman MacFarlane. Includes a rough draft of paper. | |
| Folder | 32 | William John McGee. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 33 | William Maclure. Includes letter to Parker Cleaveland, 1822. | |
| Folder | 34 | Joseph Vander Maelen. Includes letter to Ferdinand Yandiveer Hayden, 1879. | |
| Folder | 35 | Garrick Mallery. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1890. | |
| Folder | 36 | Gideon Algernon Mantell. Includes letter to J. H. Richardson, n.d. | |
| Folder | 37 | Jules Marcou. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875 and George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 38 | Othniel Charles Marsh. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1870 and Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 39 | James Wilson Marshall. | |
| Folder | 40 | Beriju N. Martin. Includes letter to James Hall, 1877. | |
| Folder | 41 | Daniel Strobel Martin. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 42 | Archibald R. Marvine. Includes letter to James Hall, 1875. | |
| Folder | 43 | Otis Tufton Mason. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 44 | William Williams Mather. Includes letter to James Hall, 1840. | |
| Folder | 45 | Alfred Marshall Mayer. Includes letter to William Jones Rhees, 1886 and Otis Tufton Mason, 1892. |
Box 8 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Fielding Bradford Meek. Includes letters to "Conrad," 1875; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876 (2) and John Wentworth Sullivan, 1875 and a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 2 | Thomas Corwin Mendenhall. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1885. | |
| Folder | 3 | F. Vanislar Mennier. Includes letters to anonymous correspondents, 1892 and 1897. | |
| Folder | 4 | Clinton Hart Merriam. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1895. | |
| Folder | 5 | Frederick James Hamilton Merrill. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1889. | |
| Folder | 6 | George P. Merrill. | |
| Folder | 7 | Mansfield Merriman. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1902. | |
| Folder | 8 | Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1900. | |
| Folder | 9 | Hugh Miller. | |
| Folder | 10 | Charles Sedgwick Minot. Includes letter to James Hall, 1884. | |
| Folder | 11 | O. M. Mitchel. | |
| Folder | 12 | Elisha Mitchell. Includes letter to William Williams Mather and James Hall, 1838. | |
| Folder | 13 | Silas Weir Mitchell. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, n. d. | |
| Folder | 14 | Samuel Latham Mitchill. Includes letter to Commodore Porter, 1824. | |
| Folder | 15 | Edward William Morley. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1916. | |
| Folder | 16 | Edward Sylvester Morse. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1890; George Ferdinand Becker, 1912 and anonymous correspondent, 1874. | |
| Folder | 17 | Samuel Finley Breese Morse. | |
| Folder | 18 | Samuel George Morton. Includes letter to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1851. | |
| Folder | 19 | Benjamin Franklin Mudge. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1877. | |
| Folder | 20 | Charles Edward Munroe. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, n. d. and 1896. | |
| Folder | 21 | Roderick Impey Murchison. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1865. | |
| Folder | 22 | John M. Murrish. Includes letter to James Hall, 1862. | |
| Folder | 23 | Fridtjof Nansen. Includes letter to Henry Stephen Washington, 1902. | |
| Folder | 24 | Henry Bradford Nason. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1886. | |
| Folder | 25 | John Strong Newberry. Includes letters to James Hall, 1841; William Phipps Blake, 1876; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1854 and Lester Frank Ward, 1882. | |
| Folder | 26 | Simon Newcomb. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1895 and Spencer F. Baird, 1883. | |
| Folder | 27 | Henry Newton. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 28 | Hubert Anson Newton. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 29 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson. Includes letters to White, 1896 and anonymous correspondent, 1896. | |
| Folder | 30 | John Milton Nickles. | |
| Folder | 31 | William Harmon Niles. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876. | |
| Folder | 32 | Nils Adolph Erik Nordenskiold. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 33 | Arthur Amos Noyes. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1897. |
Box 9 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Yaichiro Okeida. | |
| Folder | 2 | Denison Olmsted. Includes letter to Archibald DeBow Murphy, 1822. | |
| Folder | 3 | Edward Francis Baxter Orton. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1899 (2), 1897 and 1885 | |
| Folder | 4 | Henry Fairfield Osborn. | |
| Folder | 5 | David Dale Owen. Includes letters to James Hall, 1859; J. H. Richardson, 1860 and anonymous correspondent, 1856. | |
| Folder | 6 | Richard Owen. [This folder contains information about two different men named Richard Owen.] Includes two fragments of letters; a fragment of a letter, 1873 and letters to anonymous correspondent, 1878; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878 and Phineas Bates, 1876. | |
| Folder | 7 | Alpheus Spring Packard. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 8 | Alexander W. Pavlow. Includes letter to George Ferdinand Becker, 1904. | |
| Folder | 9 | Albert Charles Peale. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1894 and 1895. | |
| Folder | 10 | Stephen D. Peet. Includes letter to Otis Tufton Mason; 1892. | |
| Folder | 11 | Benjamin Peirce. Includes letter to James Hall , 1860 | |
| Folder | 12 | Samuel Lewis Penfield. | |
| Folder | 13 | David Pearce Penhallow. Includes letter to Frank Hall Knowlton, 1893. | |
| Folder | 14 | Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 15 | James Gates Percival. Includes letter to J. W. Lapham, 1855. | |
| Folder | 16 | George Henry Perkins Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1883. | |
| Folder | 17 | John B. Perry. Includes letter to James Hall, 1871. | |
| Folder | 18 | Robert Peter. Includes a rough draft of paper, 1890 and letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1885. | |
| Folder | 19 | Timoth Pickering. | |
| Folder | 20 | James Constantine Pilling. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1887. | |
| Folder | 21 | Louis Valentine Pirsson. Includes latter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 22 | Felipe Poey y Aloy. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1883. | |
| Folder | 23 | John Wesley Powell. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875 and 1877. | |
| Folder | 24 | Daniel Webster Prentiss. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 25 | Joseph Prestwich. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, n.d. | |
| Folder | 26 | John Robert Procter. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1885 and 1887. | |
| Folder | 27 | Charles Smith Prosser. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 28 | Theophil Mitchell Prudden. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1881. | |
| Folder | 29 | Raphael Pumpelly. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1875. | |
| Folder | 30 | Frederick Ward Putnam. Includes a fragment of a letter. |
Box 10 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. | |
| Folder | 2 | Charles Rau. Includes letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1878 and William Jones Rhees, 1884. | |
| Folder | 3 | Percy Edward Raymond. | |
| Folder | 4 | Rossiter Worthington Raymond. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 5 | Jean Jacques Elisee Reclus. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 6 | William C. Redfield. Includes letter to James Hall, 1846. | |
| Folder | 7 | Graf Reichenbach. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1881. | |
| Folder | 8 | Ludwig Reichenbach. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 9 | Hans Reusch. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 10 | William Jones Rhees. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1887. | |
| Folder | 11 | William North Rice. Includes letter to George P Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 12 | Ferdinand von Richtofen. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and anonymous correspondent, 1877. | |
| Folder | 13 | Charles Valentine Riley. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1876 and 1877 and George Brown Goode, 1888. | |
| Folder | 14 | Antoine Risso. | |
| Folder | 15 | David Rittenhouse. | |
| Folder | 16 | Carl Ritter. Includes manuscript draft for his geography book. | |
| Folder | 17 | Henry Darwin Rogers. Includes letters to Fielding Bradford Meek and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1858; James Hall, 1843. | |
| Folder | 18 | James Blythe Rogers. Includes letter to James Hall, 1843. | |
| Folder | 19 | William Barton Rogers. Includes letter to George W. Hawes, n.d. and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1873 and 1874. | |
| Folder | 20 | Carl Ludwig Rominger. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1904. | |
| Folder | 21 | Gustav Rose Includes letter to Charles Upham Shepherd, 1860. | |
| Folder | 22 | Heinrich Rose. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1858. | |
| Folder | 23 | Heinrich Rosenbusch. Includes letter to Joseph Silas Diller, 1896. | |
| Folder | 24 | Richard Pennefather Rothwell. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 25 | Rudolf Ruedemann. | |
| Folder | 26 | Israel C. Russell. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1892. | |
| Folder | 27 | James Merrill Safford. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1894. | |
| Folder | 28 | Bart Faujas De Saint-Fond. | |
| Folder | 29 | Etienne Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire. | |
| Folder | 30 | Charles Sprague Sargent. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 31 | Thomas Edmund Savage. | |
| Folder | 32 | Thomas Say. | |
| Folder | 33 | Johann David Schoept. | |
| Folder | 34 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Includes letter to Augustus C. Hawlin, n. d. | |
| Folder | 35 | Charles Schuchert. Includes a memo. | |
| Folder | 36 | Carl Schurz. | |
| Folder | 37 | Philip Lutley Sclater. Includes letter to Frederic Augustus Lucas, 1895 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 38 | Frank Lamson-Scribner. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 39 | Samuel H. Scudder. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1885. | |
| Folder | 40 | Adam Sedgwick. Includes letter to R. Southey, n d. and anonymous correspondent, n.d. | |
| Folder | 41 | Thomas Jefferson Jackson See. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1914. | |
| Folder | 42 | Harry Govier Seeley. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 43 | Henry Martyn Seely. Includes letter to Frank Hall Knowlton, 1863. | |
| Folder | 44 | Elias Howard Sellards. | |
| Folder | 45 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 46 | Charles Upham Shepherd. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1876. | |
| Folder | 47 | Robert Wilson Shufeldt. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1886. | |
| Folder | 48 | Benjamin Franklin Shumard. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1856. | |
| Folder | 49 | Benjamin Silliman, Jr. Includes letters to James J. Speed, 1851; Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1872; "Gentlemen," 1837; anonymous correspondent, 1855 and a fragment of a letter.; Also includes some information about Benjamin Silliman, Sr. |
Box 11 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane. | |
| Folder | 2 | Eugene A. Smith. Includes postcard to anonymous correspondent, 1893. | |
| Folder | 3 | John Lawrence Smith. Includes letter to George W. Hawes, 1881. | |
| Folder | 4 | William Sidney Tangier Smith. | |
| Folder | 5 | Mary Fairfax Somerville. Includes letter to Mrs. Bell, n. d. | |
| Folder | 6 | Henry Clifton Sorby. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 7 | Herbert Spencer. | |
| Folder | 8 | Joseph William Winthrop Spencer. Includes letter to George P. Merrill , 1886. | |
| Folder | 9 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 10 | Frank Springer. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1907 and 1919. | |
| Folder | 11 | Timothy Wilson Stanton. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1899. | |
| Folder | 12 | Leonhard Stejneger. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1886. | |
| Folder | 13 | James H. Stevenson. | |
| Folder | 14 | John James Stevenson. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1890 and 1906 | |
| Folder | 15 | William Stimpson. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 16 | Edward Suess. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1875 and anonymous correspondent, 1860 and postcard to anonymous correspondent, 1897. | |
| Folder | 17 | Adolf Heinrich Joseph Sutro. | |
| Folder | 18 | George Clinton Swallow. Includes letter to John James Stevenson, 1890. | |
| Folder | 19 | Joseph Szabo. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 20 | William R. Taggert. | |
| Folder | 21 | James Edward Talmage. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 22 | Ralph Stockman Tarr. Includes postcard to George P. Merrill (?), 1892. | |
| Folder | 23 | William B. Taylor. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1887. | |
| Folder | 24 | J. J. Harris Teall. | |
| Folder | 25 | Edgar E. Teller. | |
| Folder | 26 | Zadock Thompson. Includes letter to James Hall, 1852. | |
| Folder | 27 | Robert Henry Thurston. Includes letter to William Phipps Blake, 1875. | |
| Folder | 28 | David P. Todd. Includes letter to secretary of Smithsonian Institution, 1885. | |
| Folder | 29 | James Edward Todd. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 30 | John Torrey. Includes letters to James Hall, 1840 and William Henry Seward, 1839. | |
| Folder | 31 | Franz Toula. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1876. | |
| Folder | 32 | Gerard Troost. Includes letter to Robert Buchanan, 1835. | |
| Folder | 33 | William Petit Trowbridge. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1890; Spencer F. Baird, 1885 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 34 | Frederick William True. Includes letters to George P. Merrill, 1892 and 1898. | |
| Folder | 35 | George Washington Tryon. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1884. | |
| Folder | 36 | Peter Tscherwinsky. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, n. d. | |
| Folder | 37 | Michael Tuomey. Includes letter to Fielding Bradford Meek, 1856. | |
| Folder | 38 | William Henry Twenhofel. | |
| Folder | 39 | Philip T. Tyson. Includes letter to Fielding Bradford Meek, 1860. |
Box 12 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Edward Oscar Ulrich. | |
| Folder | 2 | Andrew Ure. Includes letter to John Millington, 1820. | |
| Folder | 3 | Charles Richard Van Hise. Includes a fragment of a letter. | |
| Folder | 4 | Stephen Van Rensselaer. | |
| Folder | 5 | Lardner Vanuxem. Includes letter to James Hall, 1845. | |
| Folder | 6 | George Vasey. Includes letter to Lester Frank Ward, 1887. | |
| Folder | 7 | William S. Vaux. | |
| Folder | 8 | Addison Emery Verrill. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1914. | |
| Folder | 9 | Constantine Francois de Chasseboeuf Volney. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1806. | |
| Folder | 10 | Franz Ritter Von Havery. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden (?), 1877. | |
| Folder | 11 | Charles Wachsmuth. Includes letter to Charles Schuchert, 1889. | |
| Folder | 12 | Charles D. Walcott. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1883. | |
| Folder | 13 | Mrs. Charles D. Walcott. | |
| Folder | 14 | Alfred Russell Wallace. | |
| Folder | 15 | J. Wanner. | |
| Folder | 16 | Henry Augustus Ward. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1906. | |
| Folder | 17 | J. E. Watkins. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1895. | |
| Folder | 18 | Walter Harvey Weed. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1892. | |
| Folder | 19 | Stuart Weller. | |
| Folder | 20 | James Clarke Welling. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 21 | David A. Wells. Includes letter to Horace White, n d. | |
| Folder | 22 | Thomas C. Weston. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1903. | |
| Folder | 23 | Charles M. Wheatley. Includes letter to James Hall(?), 1856. | |
| Folder | 24 | Charles Abiathar White. Includes letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1883 and George P. Merrill , n. d. | |
| Folder | 25 | David White. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 26 | J. P. White. | |
| Folder | 27 | Theodore G. White. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1896. | |
| Folder | 28 | James Edward Whitfield. | |
| Folder | 29 | Robert Parr Whitfield. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1883. | |
| Folder | 30 | J. D. Whitney. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1895. | |
| Folder | 31 | William Dwight Whitney. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1873-1876. | |
| Folder | 32 | Charles Whittlesey. Includes letter to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 33 | Charles Wilkes. | |
| Folder | 34 | George Huntington Williams. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 35 | Henry Shaler Williams. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1892. | |
| Folder | 36 | J. Francis Williams. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1890. | |
| Folder | 37 | Bailey Willis. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1891. | |
| Folder | 38 | Samuel Wendell Williston. Includes letter to Spencer F. Baird, 1885. | |
| Folder | 39 | Ada D. Wilson. | |
| Folder | 40 | Thomas Wilson. Includes letter to George P Merrill, 189?. | |
| Folder | 41 | Alexander Newton Winchell. Includes letters to George P. Merrill , 1892; George W. Hawes, 1881 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1870. | |
| Folder | 42 | Arthur W. Winslow. Includes letter to Charles Dewey, n. d. | |
| Folder | 43 | Justin Winsor. Includes letter to George Brown Goode, 1889. | |
| Folder | 44 | Friedrich Wohler. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1863. | |
| Folder | 45 | Levi Woodbury. | |
| Folder | 46 | Henry Woodward. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1899. | |
| Folder | 47 | Amos Henry Worthen. Includes letters to William Phipps Blake, 1875 and Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878. | |
| Folder | 48 | Charles E. Wright. Includes a fragment of a letter to anonymous correspondent, 187?. | |
| Folder | 49 | George Frederick Wright. Includes postcard to anonymous correspondent, 1895. | |
| Folder | 50 | George M. Wright. | |
| Folder | 51 | Wulfing. Includes letter to anonymous correspondent, 1897. | |
| Folder | 52 | Jeffries Wyman. Includes letter to James Hall, 1846. | |
| Folder | 53 | William S. Yeates. Includes letter to George P. Merrill, 1893. | |
| Folder | 54 | Edward Livingston Youmans. | |
| Folder | 55 | Karl Alfred von Zittel. Includes letters to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1878 and 1874. | |
| Folder | 56 | Unidentified individuals. |
Box 13 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Group photograph, apparently of persons connected with the United States Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler Surveys). Last name identifications appear below photograph, n. d. | |
| Folder | 2 | Group portrait with. some individual identifications including George P. Merrill, Henry Fairfield Burton, A. W. Miller, S. F. Whitaker and L. K. Armstrong, n.d. | |
| Folder | 3 | Geology faculty at the University of Chicago, including Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr., Joseph Paxson Iddings, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Charles Richard Van Hise and Rollin D. Salisbury, n. d. | |
| Folder | 4 | Copies of photographs of Charles D. Walcott and Thomas Benton Brooks, located in series 1. | |
| Folder | 5 | Clarence King, Arnold Hague and Samuel Franklin Emmons, n. d. | |
| Folder | 6 | California Geological Survey Corps, including Chester Averill, William More Gabb, William Ashburner, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Charles K. Hoffman, Clarence King and William H. Brewer. Ca. 1860. | |
| Folder | 7 | California Geological Survey field party, including William H. Brewer, Clarence King, James T. Gardner and Richard Cotter, 1864. | |
| Folder | 8 | Smithsonian staff members, including H. C. Chester, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Daniel Leech, James M. Flint, Charles Rau, Elliot Coues and William S. Yeates. 1880s (?) | |
| Folder | 9 | Geologists with Archivald Geikie after his lecture course at Baltimore, 1890. Some identifications on back of photograph. | |
| Folder | 10 | United States Geological Survey Disbursing Office, 1895. Some identifications on photograph. | |
| Folder | 11 | United States Geological Survey members, ca. 1900. Identifications on back of photograph. | |
| Folder | 12 | Field party in Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 1903. Includes members of Charles D. Walcott family. | |
| Folder | 13 | 1913 International Geological Congress, trip to Mount Robson District, Canada. No identifications. | |
| Folder | 14 | Members of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. November 1920. Identifications on back of photograph. | |
| Folder | 15 | Edward Oscar Ulrich, Amadeus W. Grabau and August F. Foerste. Probably 1920s. | |
| Folder | 16 | Group photograph of Louis Augusta Rosenbush, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen Olmstead, Nellie H. Smith and Margaret W. Moodey at retirement of Nellie H. Smith from Smithsonian Institution, August 31 , 1930. | |
| Folder | 17 | Unidentified groups. |
Box 14 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Field party, 1871. Unidentified persons. | |
| Folder | 2 | William Henry Jackson's photographic outfit, 1871. | |
| Folder | 3 | "Alligator Mess", 1871(?). Persons in photograph include John Raymond, E. Campbell Carrington, George B. Dixon and William B. Logan. | |
| Folder | 4 | Party at Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, 1872. Persons in photograph include Henry Gannett, Albert C. Peale, Joseph Savage, William Henry Holmes, A. E. Bingham, E. B. Wakefield, Thomas O'Conor Sloane, Alexander Ephraim Brown and William B. Logan. | |
| Folder | 5 | Camp at Ogden, Utah, 1872. Persons in photograph include Charles R. Campbell, Frank H. Bradley, William Henry Holmes, John Merle Coulter, William Henry Jackson and Albert Charles Peale. | |
| Folder | 6 | Group photograph of meeting of two field parties at Fire Hole Basin, 1872. Some persons identified on back of print and some on accompanying sheet. | |
| Folder | 7 | "Professor's Mess," Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, 1872. Persons in photograph include Henry Gannett, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, S. F. Hamp, James H. Stevenson, William Blackmore, W. A. West, E. Campbell Carrington, Griffith, Joseph Savage, John Raymond and William R. Taggert. | |
| Folder | 8 | Hayden Survey mounted party, 1872. | |
| Folder | 9 | Survey offices in Washington, D. C., probably at 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Persons in photograph include William Nicholson, Henry Gannett and John Merle Coulter, 1873. | |
| Folder | 10 | Group portrait of William Henry Holmes, George B. Chittenden, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Ernest Ingersoll and William Henry Jackson, 1873. | |
| Folder | 11 | Group portrait including Sullivan, Edwin Atlee Barber, Archivald R. Marvine, Story B. Ladd and William S. Holman, 1873. | |
| Folder | 12 | Field party in the Elk Mountains, Colorado, 1874. Persons in photograph include Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, James H. Stevenson, William S. Holman, S. C. Jones, James T. Gardner, William Dwight Whitney and William Henry Holmes. | |
| Folder | 13 | Field party in Colorado, 1874. Persons in photograph include William Henry Holmes, George B. Chittenden, Joseph Savage, William L. Carpenter, James H. Stevenson, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, J. H. Batty, William Dwight Whitney, Albert Charles Peale and Steve Hovey. | |
| Folder | 14 | Unidentified field party, 1874. | |
| Folder | 15 | Field party at La Veta Pass, August 1877. | |
| Folder | 16 | Plates from U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, from photographs by William Henry Jackson, n.d. | |
| Folder | 17 | Plates from U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Hot Springs Series, from photographs by William Henry Jackson, n.d. |
Box 14 of 24
| Folder | 18 | Unidentified color photographs of mountain vegetation, n. d. | |
| Folder | 19 | Unidentified photographs of geological features including road cuts, waterfalls, rapids, mountains, shorelines, canyons and fossils, n d. | |
| Folder | 20 | Grand Canyon, Arizona. | |
| Folder | 21 | Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona | |
| Folder | 22 | Columbia River Valley, British Columbia |
Box 15 of 24
| Folder | 23 | Durango, Colorado flood plain. | |
| Folder | 24 | Silverton Quadrant, Colorado. | |
| Folder | 25 | Dismal Swamp. | |
| Folder | 26 | Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. | |
| Folder | 27 | Horseshoe Curve. | |
| Folder | 28 | Vinal Haven Island, Maine. | |
| Folder | 29 | Ausable Chasm, New York. | |
| Folder | 30 | Niagara Gorge, New York | |
| Folder | 31 | Bad Lands Park, South Dakota. | |
| Folder | 32 | Harpers Ferry, Virginia. | |
| Folder | 33 | Coral Reefs, Australia. | |
| Folder | 34 | Photographs and illustrations of geological faults and faulting including views of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Maryland; Panther Gap, Virginia and Chilihowee (?) Mountain, Tennessee. | |
| Folder | 35 | Plates of fossil plants and microorganisms. | |
| Folder | 36 | Photographs of glaciers and the results of glacial action at sites in Rainier National Park, Glacier National Park, Alaska, Washington State and Alberta, Canada. | |
| Folder | 37 | Illustration showing geological section through Hudson River Valley at the George Washington Bridge, New York. | |
| Folder | 38 | Photographs of igneous rock formations at sites in Oregon, California and South Dakota. | |
| Folder | 39 | Illustrations showing origin of ore deposits. | |
| Folder | 40 | Photographs of rock formations including sites at or in Castle Mountain, Canada; Buffalo, New York; Wyoming; Colorado; Virginia and Oklahoma. | |
| Folder | 41 | Map of Tennessee illustrating range of geological formations. | |
| Folder | 42 | Photographs of waterfalls including Yellowstone Falls; Trenton Falls, New York and Grand Falls, Arizona. |
Box 15 of 24
| Folder | 43 | Natural History Building, Smithsonian Institution. | |
| Folder | 44 | Natural History Building, Smithsonian Institution. Geology Division offices, stack areas and exhibits. | |
| Folder | 45 | United States Capitol Building. | |
| Folder | 46 | View of Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument across Potomac River. | |
| Folder | 47 | Negative of National Zoological Park map, n.d. | |
| Folder | 48 | James Hall's Laboratory, Albany, New York | |
| Folder | 49 | National Zoological Park Gate Posts, Washington, D.C. | |
| Folder | 50 | Charles Darwin's House (Down House), Docone, Kent, England |
Box 16 of 24
| Folder | 1 | A misc., 1895-1929 | |
| Folder | 2 | Alexander, Benno, 1914-1916 | |
| Folder | 3 | Ba - Bo misc., 1886-1929 | |
| Folder | 4 | Br - Bu misc., 1886-1927 | |
| Folders | 5-7 | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1906-1926 |
Box 17 of 24
| Folder | 1 | Bassler, Ray S., 1904-1923 | |
| Folder | 2 | Becker, George F., 1918-1929 | |
| Folder | 3 | Bibbins, A. B., 1904-1924 | |
| Folder | 4 | Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 1917-1925 | |
| Folder | 5 | Booth, Garrett and Blair, 1911-1924 | |
| Folder | 6 | Brinkley, Stuart R., 1921 | |
| Folder | 7 | Brown, J. C., 1919-1920 | |
| Folder | 8 | Bryant, L. E., 1919 | |
| Folder | 9 | &nbs |