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Record Unit 7177
Merrill, George P. (Georger Perkins), 1854-1929
George P. Merrill Collection, circa 1800-1930 and undated
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
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| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Merrill, George P. (Georger Perkins), 1854-1929 |
| Title: | George P. Merrill Collection |
| Dates: | circa 1800-1930 and undated |
| Quantity: | 11.79 cu. ft. (21 document boxes) (3 12x17 boxes) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 7177 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This collection of photographs and autographs was assembled by Merrill 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, 1904, pp. 189-733), and The First One Hundred Years of American Geology, 1924. Many of the photographs and portraits in this collection appear in one of those two works. In addition, the collection contains many photographs and portraits of Merrill's contemporaries in the Smithsonian Institution and the geological sciences. A number of autographs appear to have been removed from official Smithsonian files. The collection contains a great deal of correspondence to James Hall, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, and George P. Merrill. |
Historical Note
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.
Descriptive Entry
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.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Merrill, George P. (Georger Perkins), 1854-1929
- Hall, James, 1811-1898
- Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
- United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1871-1877
- United States National Museum. Department of Geology
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7177, George P. Merrill Collection
Container List
Series 1
PHOTOGRAPHS, CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL GEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS, CIRCA 1800-1920.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Series 2
PHOTOGRAPHS OF GROUPS OF GEOLOGISTS, SCIENTISTS AND SMITHSONIAN STAFF, CIRCA 1860-1930.Box 13
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. c. 1895. (?)
Folder 9 Geologists with Archivald Geikie after his lecture course at Baltimore, 1896. 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.
Series 3
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES (HAYDEN SURVEYS), CIRCA 1871-1877.Box 14
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 Timothy H. O'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.
Series 4
PHOTOGRAPHS AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SUBJECTS, UNDATEDBox 14
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
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 Vinalhaven 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, West 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.
Series 5
PHOTOGRAPHS OF BUILDINGS, MOSTLY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., UNDATED.Box 15
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
Series 6
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1885-1929 AND UNDATED.Box 16
Folder 1 A miscellaneous, 1895-1929
Folder 2 Alexander, Benno, 1914-1916
Folder 3 Ba - Bo miscellaneous, 1886-1929
Folder 4 Br - Bu miscellaneous, 1886-1927
Folders 5-7 Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1906-1926
Box 17
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 Budget, 1900-1902
Folder 10 Butler, G. M., 1912-1923
Folder 11 Butts, Edward, 1917-1919
Folder 12 C miscellaneous, 1887-1929
Folder 13 Canfield Collection, 1926
Folder 14 Chamberlain Collection, 1897-1912
Folder 15 Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, 1892-1900
Folder 16 Chinese Meteorites, 1917-1922
Folder 17 Clarke, Hopewell, 1902
Folder 18 Clarke, John Mason, 1902-1925
Folder 19 Cleland, Herdman Fitzgerald, 1901-1904
Folder 20 Crosby, F. W., 1892, 1902-1904
Folder 21 Crosby, William Otis, 1887-1902
Folder 22 Cross, Charles Whitman, 1888-1919
Folder 23 Curie, Madame M., 1921
Box 18
Folder 1 D miscellaneous, 1887-1927
Folder 2 Dale, T. Nelson, 1902-1919
Folder 3 Davis, W. T., 1892
Folder 4 E miscellaneous, 1904-1926
Folder 5 Earll, R. Edward, 1891-1893
Folder 6 Ellington, John R., 1926-1928
Folder 7 Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1920-1928
Folder 8 F miscellaneous, 1886-1929
Folder 9 Farrington, Oliver Cummings, 1893, 1912-1929
Folder 10 Foote Mineral Co., 1902-1904, 1911-1914
Folder 11 Foshag, William F., 1920-1929
Folder 12 G miscellaneous, 1886-1928
Folder 13 Gidley, James W., 1902-1927
Folder 14 Gilbert, C. G., 1911-1929 and undated
Folders 15-16 Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1891-1896, 1907. Material consists of correspondence, notes, and maps, sent to Merrill by Gilbert, concerning the Canon Diablo Meteorite.
Box 19
Folder 1 Gilmore, Charles Whitney, 1905, 1913-1929
Folder 2 Goode, George Brown, 1887-1893
Folder 3 Grebel, Wendler & Co., 1913-1914
Folder 4 H miscellaneous, 1887-1926
Folder 5 Harts, W. W., 1913
Folder 6 Heighway, A. E., 1904-1925
Folder 7 Henrickson, G., 1915-1919
Folder 8 Hobbs, William H., 1905, 1921
Folder 9 Holmes, Joseph A., 1892-1894, 1902-1904
Folder 10 Holsinger, S. J., 1907
Folder 11 Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1892, 1911-1924
Folder 12 Howland, Frank, 1923-1924
Folder 13 I miscellaneous, 1898, 1914, 1921
Folder 14 Iddings, Joseph Paxson, 1893, 1919-1921
Folder 15 J miscellaneous, 1899-1928
Folder 16 Jermy, Julius, 1894-1905
Folder 17 Jervig, G., 1892-1893 and undated
Folder 18 Jewell, Lewis E., 1924
Folder 19 Johnston, Robert A. A., 1914-1919
Folder 20 K miscellaneous, 1893-1929
Folder 21 Kemp, James Furman, 1889, 1904-1926
Folder 22 Keyser, W. C., 1922-1925
Folder 23 Knight, Ora Willis, 1913
Folder 24 Kunz, George Frederick, 1887, 1893, 1911-1925
Box 20
Folder 1 L miscellaneous, 1886-1927
Folder 2 Langley, Samuel P., 1889-1902
Folder 3 Larsen, Esper Signius, Jr., 1924
Folder 4 Lee, Harry A., 1898-1902
Folder 5 Lincoln Memorial, 1913-1920
Folder 6 Lucas, Frederick Augustus, 1898-1906, 1926
Folder 7 Mc miscellaneous, 1887-1927
Folder 8 McCallie, S. W., 1919-1921, 1926-1928
Folder 9 Ma miscellaneous, 1900-1927
Folder 10 Me - Mu miscellaneous, 1886-1929
Folder 11 Manning, J. F., 1916-1924
Folder 12 Merrill, George P., 1900-1928 and undated
Folder 13 Meteorites (correspondence regarding), undated
Folder 14 Meunier, Stanislas, 1899-1925
Box 21
Folder 1 Miller, Arthur M., 1918-1923
Folder 2 Moodey, Margaret W., 1913-1921
Folder 3 N miscellaneous, 1888-1928
Folder 4 Nininger, Harvey Harlow, 1923-1929
Folder 5 O miscellaneous, 1886-1928
Folder 6 Omaha Exposition, 1898
Folder 7 P miscellaneous, 1892-1929
Folder 8 Pack, Frederick J., 1912-1913, 1923
Folder 9 Palache, Charles, 1904-1929
Folder 10 Peale, Albert Charles, 1886-1915
Folder 11 Pike, A. F., Manufacturing Company, 1887
Folder 12 Pogue, Joseph E., 1912-1917
Folder 13 Pope, Fred J., 1917-1929
Folder 14 Prior, George T., 1913-1927
Box 22
Folder 1 Q miscellaneous, 1886-1887, 1918-1919
Folder 2 R miscellaneous, 1885-1929
Folder 3 Rathbun, Richard, 1892-1916
Folder 4 Ravenel, William deC., 1902-1919, 1926
Folder 5 Reeds, Chester A., 1916-1928
Folder 6 Ries, Heinrich, 1899-1922
Folder 7 Rightmire, Harl, 1915-1925
Folder 8 Rochester Municipal Museum, 1920
Folder 9 Roebling Collection, 1914-1927
Folder 10 Sa - Sl miscellaneous, 1887-1925
Folder 11 Sm - Sz miscellaneous, 1893-1925
Folder 12 Sayles, Robert W., 1914-1922
Box 23
Folder 1 Schuchert, Charles, 1895-1914, 1925
Folder 2 Shannon, Earl V., 1917, 1928-1929
Folder 3 Smith, Eugene A., 1902-1904, 1913-1916
Folder 4 Smith, George Otis, 1915-1921
Folder 5 Smith, Philip S., 1915-1920
Folder 6 Space in U. S. National Museum, 1901
Folder 7 Springer, Frank, 1898-1904
Folder 8 Sternberg, Charles H., 1900-1901, 1917-1918
Folder 9 Stewart, Albon, 1901
Folder 10 Stone, R. W., 1924
Folder 11 T miscellaneous, 1893-1925
Folder 12 Thomas, R. K., 1921-1922
Folder 13 Tilghman, Benjamin C., 1907 and undated
Folder 14 True, Frederick William, 1886-1913
Folder 15 U miscellaneous, 1886-1922
Folder 16 Ulrich Collection, 1901-1902
Folder 17 V miscellaneous, 1890-1925
Folder 18 Vaughan, T. Wayland, 1898, 1903, 1908
Folder 19 W miscellaneous, 1885-1929
Box 24
Folder 1 Walcott, Charles D., 1897-1927
Folder 2 Walker, Thomas Leonard, 1914-1922
Folder 3 Ward, Henry A., 1899-1906
Folder 4 Ward, Henry L., 1902-1921
Folders 5-7 Ward's Natural Science Establishment, 1893-1929
Folder 8 Watson, Thomas Leonard, 1911-1924
Folder 9 Wetmore, Alexander, 1925-1929
Folder 10 White, David, 1906-1922
Folder 11 White, I. C., 1905-1913
Folder 12 Wieland, George R., 1890 (?), 1904-1919
Folder 13 Wigglesworth, Edward, 1917-1920
Folder 14 X - Y - Z miscellaneous, 1886-1927
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