Finding Aids to Personal Papers and
Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Record Unit 7006
Alexander Wetmore Papers,
circa 1848-1979 and undated

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Introduction

Historical Note

Chronology

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. General Correspondence, 1901-1977, and undated, with Related Materials from 1879.

  Series 2. Organizational File, 1901-1977 and undated.

  Series 3. Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum Files, 1924-1976 and undated.

  Series 4. Biographical and Personal Files, 1897-1979 and undated, with related materials from 1848.

  Series 5. Expense Accounts, 1929-1974.

  Series 6. Permits, 1902-1977, and undated.

  Series 7. Field Notes, Catalogues, Laboratory Notes, and Related Records, circa 1894-1936, and undated.

  Series 8. Field Work and Official Travel Files, 1910-1974.

  Series 9. Panama Field Work Files, 1944-1966.

  Series 10. Birds of the Republic of Panama Manuscripts, Proofs, Correspondence, and Related Materials, 1968-1969 and undated.

  Series 11. Drawings of Fossil Birds, 1918-1956.

  Series 12. Desk Diaries and Appointment Books, 1917-1956.

  Series 13. Photographic Materials, 1901-1974 and undated, with Related Materials from 1868.

  Series 14. National Academy of Science, Daniel Giraud Elliot Fund Award Committee, Chairman's Files, 1929-1963.

  Series 15. Research Files, circa 1911-1972, and undated.

  Series 16. Diplomas, Certificates, and Awards, 1901-1970, and undated, with Related Materials from 1876.

  Series 17. Typescript copies of John Xantus Correspondence, circa 1930s.

  Series 18. Additional Materials.

INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL NOTE

(Frank) Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), ornithologist, avian paleontologist, and science administrator, was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1945 to 1952. He was born in North Freedom, Wisconsin, the son of Nelson Franklin and Emma Amelia (Woodworth) Wetmore. He developed an early interest in birds and at the age of eight made his first field journal entry--an observation on the pelican recorded on a family vacation to Florida in 1894. His first published paper, "My Experience with a Red-headed Woodpecker," appeared in Bird-Lore in 1900. By the time he entered the University of Kansas in 1905, Wetmore had made extensive natural history collections around his Wisconsin home and in Independence, Kansas.

Shortly after his arrival in Lawrence, Kansas, Wetmore received his first museum job as Assistant at the University Museum under Charles D. Bunker. His undergraduate career was interrupted on several occasions as he took jobs in Arizona, California, and Colorado to finance his education. He also used these opportunities to study and collect the native avifauna. Wetmore received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1912. Wetmore continued his education in Washington, D.C., receiving the Master of Science degree in 1916 and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1920--both from George Washington University. He would later receive honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin, George Washington University, Centre College, and Ripon College.

Alexander Wetmore c. 1920

Wetmore's career in the federal government began in 1910 when he was appointed an Agent for the Biological Survey, a bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture. During the summers of 1910-1911 he assisted on field investigations in Wyoming and Alaska. He traveled to Puerto Rico in late 1911 and spent nearly a year surveying the bird life of that and adjacent islands. In 1913, Wetmore was promoted to Assistant Biologist with the Biological Survey, and he moved to Washington to begin work in the program on the food habits of North American birds. His career with the Biological Survey was highlighted by constant field investigations which took him to most of the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, and South America. Among his more important investigations were a study of the causes of waterfowl mortality around the Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1914-1916; a survey of North American birds that migrated to the southern part of South America, 1920-1921; and the leadership of the Tanager Exploring Expedition to the islands of the mid-Pacific, 1923. Wetmore was promoted to the rank of Biologist with the Survey in 1924.

As his professional status grew, Wetmore received offers of curatorial and research positions from several of the leading museums in America. Perhaps the most interesting came in 1920 when the American Museum of Natural History asked him to join the Roy Chapman Andrews Asiatic Expedition and take charge of the zoological collections. Wetmore declined this and several other offers. Finally, in November 1924, he accepted appointment as Superintendent of the National Zoological Park (NZP). He remained at the NZP until March 1925 when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian in charge of the United States National Museum (USNM). Wetmore held this position for nearly twenty years, when, in 1945, he was elected the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian. He retired in 1952 and became a Research Associate of the Institution where he continued his research on recent and fossil birds.

Wetmore's administration of the USNM and Smithsonian during the era of the Great Depression and World War II faced many constraints. However, he managed to continue the Institution's basic research aims, while instituting improvements in its administrative operations and exhibits program. Among his most important accomplishments was a move toward professional management of the Institution by hiring specialists such as John E. Graf and John L. Keddy to assist with federal budgetary procedures and other administrative matters. He also steered the Smithsonian toward a period of exhibit modernization which was realized after his retirement. Two new bureaus were added to the Smithsonian during Wetmore's tenure as Secretary--the National Air Museum (now the National Air and Space Museum) and the Canal Zone Biological Area (now the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute).

Despite his administrative responsibilities at the Smithsonian, Wetmore continued an active research program in the field and the laboratory. He conducted several collecting expeditions to the American tropics between 1927 and 1940. When the outbreak of World War II restricted travel outside the country, he undertook a study of the birds of Shenandoah National Park in nearby Virginia. In the mid-1940s, Wetmore began a research program that would occupy his energies for the remainder of his life. Between 1946 and 1966 he took annual trips to Panama--making an exhaustive survey of the birds of the isthmus. This work culminated in the publication of his magnum opus, The Birds of the Republic of Panama. Three volumes of the work appeared during his life. The final volume was completed by his Smithsonian colleagues and published posthumously.

Wetmore was widely recognized as the dean of American ornithologists, and he worked extensively in the field of avian paleontology and as a systematic specialist. His bibliography contained over seven hundred entries; including 150 papers and monographs on fossil birds. He described 189 species and subspecies of birds new to science. Wetmore made enormous natural history collections, which were eventually donated to the Smithsonian. Included were 26,058 bird and mammal skins from North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean area; 4,363 skeletal and anatomical specimens; and 201 clutches of birds eggs. Fifty-six new genera, species, and subspecies of birds (both recent and fossil), mammals, amphibians, insects, mollusks, and plants were named in his honor--an assemblage which Wetmore called his "private zoo." Also named in his honor was the "Wetmore Glacier" in the Antarctic and the "Alexander Wetmore Bridge," a canopy bridge in the Bayano River Basin in Panama.

Wetmore was a member of countless professional organizations, scientific committees, conservation groups, and social clubs. He served many of the groups in elected or appointed capacities. He was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) for seventy years and served as President from 1926 to 1929. For many years he was Chairman of the AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature and was instrumental in the publication of the fifth edition of the Check-list of North American Birds. Wetmore also had a long-term association with the National Geographic Society, serving as a Trustee, 1933-1976, and as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Research and Exploration. He also authored several popular publications on birds for the Society.

Wetmore served as President of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1927; the Washington Biologists' Field Club, 1928-1931; the Biological Society of Washington, 1929-1931; the Cosmos Club, 1938; the Explorers Club, 1944-1946; and the X International Ornithological Congress held at Uppsala, Sweden, 1950. He was Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, 1951-1955, and a Trustee (or Director) of the Textile Museum of Washington, 1928-1952; the George Washington University, 1945-1962; and the Gorgas Memorial Institute for Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 1949-1976.

During his career at the Smithsonian, Wetmore was named to several national and international scientific committees. He was Secretary-General of the Eighth American Scientific Congress, 1940; United States Representative to the Inter-American Commission of Experts on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation, 1940; Vice-Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, 1945-1952; and Chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee on Research and Development, 1946.

His contributions to science resulted in many honors and awards. He was the recipient of the Otto Herman Medal of the Hungarian Ornithological Society, 1931; the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society, 1957; the Brewster Medal, 1959, and the Elliott Coues Award, 1972, of the American Ornithologists' Union; the Explorers Club Medal, 1962; the Bartsch Award of the Audubon Naturalist Society, 1964; and the Arthur Allen Award of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1970. Wetmore married Fay Holloway in 1912, and a daughter, Margaret Fenwick, was born in 1916. After a long illness, his wife died in 1953. That same year he married Annie Beatrice Thielen. Wetmore died at his home in Glen Echo, Maryland, on December 7, 1978.

For more detailed biograhical information on Wetmore, see Paul H. Oehser, "In Memoriam: Alexander Wetmore," The Auk, July 1980, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 608-615; S. Dillon Ripley and James A. Steed, "Alexander Wetmore, June 18, 1886 - December 7, 1978," National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, vol. 56, pp. 597-626, 1987; and John Sherwood, "His Field Notebook Was Started in 1894; It Is Not Yet Complete," The Washington Star, Thursday, 13 January 1977. A discussion of his contributions to paleornithology is found in Storrs L. Olson's "Alexander Wetmore and the Study of Fossil Birds" in "Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore," Storrs L. Olson, editor, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 1976, no. 27, pp. xi-xvi.

CHRONOLOGY

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
General Correspondence, 1901-1977, and undated, with Related Materials from 1879.

This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the professional career of Alexander Wetmore. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with domestic and foreign ornithologists and avian paleontologists concerning research projects, nomenclatural questions, and various professional issues.

Other correspondents include staff and officials of the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States National Museum (USNM), and Smithsonian Institution; staff and officials of museums, universities, and research foundations; officers and members of professional organizations; editors of scientific journals and popular publications; bird watchers and amateur ornithologists; and personal acquaintances.

The correspondence documents all aspects of Wetmore's professional life. In addition to providing a wealth of information on his research on recent and fossil birds, it is especially strong in illustrating field work and scientific expeditions; the development of his career as a professional ornithologist, museum director, and science administrator; his participation in professional organizations; and the preparation of scientific papers and popular works. The correspondence is also a valuable source of information on the history of the Bureau of Biological Survey, 1910-1924, and the USNM/Smithsonian, 1925-1952.

Occasional photographs, manuscripts, and field notes are found in the correspondence. This material is noted in the folder list.

Arranged Alphabetically

Box 1 of 240

Folder	1		Aa-Ak, general
Folder	2		Abbot, Charles G., 1927-1929, 1931, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1967, 1969-1970, 1972-1973, and undated. Includes a poem by Paul E. Garber commemorating Abbot's 95th birthday, May 1967.
Folder	3		Abbott, William Louis, 1924, 1927-1939, 1949, and undated. Includes several letters containing descriptions of Wetmore's field work. Correspondence post-dating Abbott's death in 1936 is with Gertrude Abbott and Cora M. Arrants.
Folder	4		Achorn, John Warren, 1921-1926, and undated. Includes an obituary of Achorn.
Folder	5		Adams, Leverett A., 1912-1913, 1916, 1924, 1942-1943, 1946, 1948, 1970
Folder	6		Ahrens, Theodor G., 1935, 1937-1938. Includes Ahrens report on bird reservations on the coasts of Denmark, 1937.
Folder	7		Al, general. Includes a letter from and a photograph of Brent I. Altsheler, July 30, 1936.
Folder	8		Albright, Horace Marden, 1929, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1951, 1956, 1959, 1972-1973
Folder	9		Alexander, Wilfrid B., 1921-1922, 1924-1929, 1931-1936, 1941-1942, 1947, 1954, 1958-1959
Folder	10		Allen, Arthur A., 1922-1923, 1925-1927, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1944-1948, 1950-1952, 1955-1956, 1958, 1960, 1964. Includes correspondence with Elsa G. Allen (Mrs. Arthur A.), and Richard B. Fischer concerning an article on Allen, 1964. Also included are photographs of Allen and his family.
Folder	11		Allen Award, Arthur A., 1966-1967, 1969-1970. Includes correspondence and related materials concerning the selection of Wetmore as the recipient of the award in 1970.
Folder	12		Allen, Glover Morrill, 1915, 1919, 1921-1924, 1928-1929, 1931, 1936-1939, 1941-1942
Folder	13		Allis, James A., 1946-1947, 1955, 1960-1962, 1966
Folder	14		Allouse, Bashir E., 1953-1954, 1957, 1965

Box 2 of 240

Folder	1		Am-Ar, general. Includes correspondence of Stanley C. Arthur, 1928-1930, 1934, concerning John James Audubon.
Folder	2		Amadon, Dean, 1941, 1943-1946, 1951-1969, 1971, 1973, and undated
Folder	3		Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1920, 1942-1943, 1948, 1951. The letters of 30 November and 6 December 1920 concern an offer to Wetmore to join the Third Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to take charge of zoological collections. The offer was declined by Wetmore. Also included is a newspaper article concerning Andrews.
Folder	4		Anthony, Harold E., 1916-1917, 1919-1924, 1926-1928, 1934, 1958
Folder	5		As-Ay, general
Folder	6		Austin, Oliver L., Jr., 1932, 1948, 1950-1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961-1964, 1967-1975. Includes correspondence documenting various aspects of Austin's duties as Editor of The Auk.
Folder	7		Bag-Bai, general
Folder	8		Bailey, Alfred Marshall, 1923-1927, 1929, 1931, 1936-1937, 1941, 1949, 1953, 1956-1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968-1971, 1973-1974, and undated. The letter of 10 August 1937 (Wetmore to Bailey) includes a description of Wetmore's work at the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1909.

Box 3 of 240

Folder	1		Bailey, Harold H., 1928-1937, 1945. Consists mostly of correspondence concerning the birds of Florida.
Folder	2		Bailey, Laura Law (Mrs. Harold H.), 1938, 1941- 1942, 1944-1945, 1948-1953, 1955-1957, 1959-1972, 1975. See also under Eugene J. Law and Laura B. Law.
Folder	3		Bailey, Vernon Orlando, 1910-1911, 1929-1930, 1936. The correspondence of 1910-1911 concerns Wetmore's collecting trips to Wyoming and Alaska for the Bureau of Biological Survey. Also included is a photograph of Bailey.
Folder	4		Bak-Ban, general
Folder	5		Baker, Rolin Howard, 1948, 1953-1956, 1958, 1961, and undated
Folder	6		Baldwin, Samuel Prentiss, 1926-1929, 1934-1936, and undated
Folder	7		Ball, Stanley Crittenden, 1924-1926, 1928-1929, 1934, 1947, 1952. The letter of 5 November 1925 includes a list of birds collected by Wetmore on the Tanager Expedition, 1923.
Folder	8		Bangs, Outram, 1922, 1926, 1928
Folders	9-10		Bannerman, David A., 1930, 1934-1938, 1941, 1943-1975. The letter of 21 September 1967 includes a manuscript by Bannerman concerning the Blossom Expedition of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1923-1924. Also included is a newspaper article on Bannerman.

Box 4 of 240

Folder	1		Bar-Bas, general
Folders	2-4		Barbour, Thomas, 1926-1949, and undated. Wetmore carried on a voluminous correspondence with Barbour, a herpetologist and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. While most of the letters concern zoological issues, several contain interesting discussions of events at and personalities associated with the USNM.
Folder	5		Barclay-Smith, Phyllis, 1938-1939, 1947, 1950, 1953
Folder	6		Barnes, Ventura, Jr., 1936-1953, 1973. Several letters concern Barnes' field work in Venezuela.
Folder	7		Barros V., Rafael, 1929-1931, 1945-1951, 1959
Folder	8		Bartlett, Robert A., 1930-1931, 1935-1941, 1943, 1972, and undated. Consists mostly of correspondence concerning various voyages of the Effie M. Morrissey. Also included is a letter from Harry Dugan, 9 June 1972, concerning Bartlett.
Folder	9		Bassler, Ray S., 1915-1916, 1927, 1930, 1936-1948. Mostly concerns Bassler's curatorial duties in the Department of Geology, USNM.

Box 5 of 240

Folder	1		Bat-Bay, general
Folder	2		Batchelder, Charles F., 1920, 1936, 1942-1943, 1951
Folder	3		Bea-Beg, general
Folder	4		Beatty, Harry A., 1933, 1937, 1941-1944, 1948, 1973, 1975
Folder	5		Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1937, 1947, 1952, 1954, 1957-1958. Beck's letter of 4 February 1958 concerns the effect of DDT on the breeding of Bald Eagles.
Folder	6		Beck, Rollo Howard, 1911, 1913-1915, 1926, 1947. The correspondence of 1913-1915 concerns Beck's collecting work in South America.
Folder	7		Beebe, William, 1933, 1938, 1941, 1943-1946, 1948-1949, 1956, and undated
Folder	8		Beh-Bex, general
Folder	9		Behle, William H., 1943-1944, 1957-1959, 1962, 1970
Folder	10		Belcher, Charles F., 1931-1937. Mostly concerns Belcher's research on the birds of Trinidad.
Folder	11		Belote, Theodore T., 1926-1947. Consists mostly of correspondence relating to Belote's duties as Curator of the Division of History, USNM.
Folder	12		Beltran, Enrique, 1942-1947, 1956-1958, 1961
Folder	13		Benjamin, Marcus, 1916, 1918. Correspondence concerning the publication of Wetmore's ornithological papers by the USNM.
Folder	14		Bennett, A. G., 1928-1933, 1938. Mostly concerns Bennett's collecting work in the Falkland Islands.
Folders	15-16		Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1911-1955. Bent and Wetmore maintained an extensive correspondence for over forty years. Many of the letters concern Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds.
Folder	17		Berger, Andrew John, 1951-1962, 1966, 1970-1975

Box 6 of 240

Folder	1		Betts, H. W., 1945-1948
Folder	2		Bi, general. Correspondents include Virgilio Biaggi, Jr., 1941, 1944, 1947-1950, 1955-1958; Leota H. Bigelow (Mrs. A. P.), 1925, 1945-1948, 1951, 1965-1966; John C. Birmingham, Jr., 1969, 1976; Alice S. Bishop (Mrs. Sherman C.), 1951, 1954-1955, 1962.
Folder	3		Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1927-1929, 1932-1934. Mostly concerns Bishop's work as Associate Curator at the Freer Gallery of Art. The correspondence of 1932-1934 documents his archeological work in China.
Folder	4		Bishop, Louis B., 1926-1933, 1937-1939, 1944-1945, 1949
Folder	5		Bl, general. Correspondents include Enrique T. Blanco, 1941-1942 and Donald Bleitz, 1962, 1969-1973.
Folder	6		Blackwelder, Richard Eliot, 1941-1946
Folder	7		Blake, Emmet Reid, 1949, 1952-1958, 1961-1973. Includes correspondence concerning Blake's Manual of Neotropical Birds.
Folder	8		Blogg, Percy Thayer, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1933, 1938, 1944-1947
Folder	9		Bob-Bon, general
Folder	10		Bock, Walter Joseph, 1956-1957, 1960-1965, 1973, 1975
Folder	11		Bond, James, 1928-1936, 1940-1951, 1955-1964, 1967-1975. Bond and Wetmore maintained an extensive correspondence for nearly fifty years. Much of the correspondence concerns Bond's research on the birds of the West Indies and several letters written during the period 1928-1931 document his field work in Haiti.
Folder	12		Bonilla Atiles, J. A., 1944-1947, 1962-1964, and undated

Box 7 of 240

Folder	1		Boo-Boy, general. Correspondents include Richard Borden, 1935, 1943; Ray Bosley, 1916-1917, 1926-1927, 1930-1931; Adam Giede Boving, 1934, 1936, 1951, and undated.
Folder	2		Book Orders (foreign), 1965-1973, and undated
Folder	3		Borden, John, 1929. Concerns Borden's proposed expedition to Siberia. Includes correspondence between Borden and Edward William Nelson.
Folder	4		Borrero H., Jose Ignacio, 1944-1947, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1957-1975, and undated
Folder	5		Boss, Norman H., 1927, 1929, 1931, 1937
Folder	6		Boulton, Rudyerd, 1924-1928, 1959-1972, and undated. Mostly concerns Boulton's work as Director of the Atlantica Ecological Research Station in Rhodesia.
Folder	7		Bra-Broc, general. Correspondents include Herbert W. Brandt, 1928, 1948, 1950-1952; Walter John Breckenridge, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1962, 1969; Herbert H. Brimley, 1929-1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939

Box 8 of 240

Folders	1-2		Brodkorb, William Pierce, 1936-1946, 1950-1976, and undated. Mostly concerns research on avian paleontology. Includes a photograph of Brodkorb in the field near Chiapas, Mexico, circa 1939.
Folder	3		Broe-Bry, general. Correspondents include Detlev Wulf Bronk, 1945-1946, 1949, 1964, 1974; Edwin Horace Bryan, Jr., 1934-1936, 1939, 1943-1944, 1955, 1962, 1972; Kirk Bryan, 1935, 1938, 1941; Harold C. Bryant, 1918-1919, 1936, 1948.
Folder	4		Brooks, Allan C., 1927-1938, 1942-1946, and undated. Primarily concerns his work as an ornithological illustrator.
Folder	5		Brooks, Maurice Graham, 1937-1945, 1949-1951, 1954, 1958. Mostly concerns the birds of West Virginia.
Folder	6		Brown, Barnum, 1925-1931, 1935, 1938, 1950
Folder	7		Brown, Edward J., 1919, 1925-1935, 1949
Folder	8		Brown, William L., 1928-1933, 1937, 1942-1945, 1968, 1974-1975. The correspondence of 1968, 1974-1975 contains reminiscences on Brown's career as a taxidermist at the USNM.
Folder	9		Bryant, Herbert S., 1925-1946. Concerns his duties as Chief, Division of Correspondence and Documents, USNM.

Box 9 of 240

Folder	1		Buc-Bux, general. Correspondents include Thomas Dearborn Burleigh, 1922, 1938-1939, 1947, 1951,1968-1970; Frank L. Burns, 1908, 1929-1930, 1933, 1943, and undated; Philip J. K. Burton, 1971, 1973-1975.
Folder	2		Budin, Emilio, 1926, 1928, 1931. Correspondence concerning his collecting work in South America.
Folder	3		Bull, John L., 1957, 1961-1969, 1973, 1975
Folder	4		Bullis, Harvey R., Jr., 1962-1964
Folder	5		Bump, James D., 1941, 1949-1951, 1955-1957
Folders	6-7		Bunker, Charles Dean, 1909, 1913-1948, and undated. Bunker, Assistant Curator of Birds and Mammals, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, was an early influence on Wetmore. They maintained a constant correspondence until his death in 1948. Included are photographs from Bunker's Alaska expedition of 1918.
Folder	8		Bunker Fund, Charles Dean, 1942-1948
Folder	9		Burt, Charles Earle, 1932-1935
Folder	10		Burton, E. Milby, 1937-1942, 1947-1949, 1959-1964, 1973, 1975
Folder	11		Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1928, 1939

Box 10 of 240

Folder	1		Cab-Cap, general
Folder	2		Cadwalader, Charles Meigs Biddle, 1934-1951
Folder	3		Calhoun, John Bumpass, 1939-1941, 1944-1945
Folder	4		Cammerer, Arno B., 1928, 1933-1940. Includes a report and photographs concerning elk in Yellowstone National Park, 10 December 1934.
Folder	5		Car-Cau, general. Correspondents include Edward L. Caum, 1923-1925, 1932-1936, 1941.
Folder	6		Carnes, Betty, 1949-1952, 1955, 1958, 1967-1969
Folder	7		Carpenter, R. R. M., 1943-1944, 1947-1948
Folder	8		Carr, Archie Fairly, Jr., 1954, 1956, 1959, 1963
Folder	9		Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, Jr., 1939-1940, 1948, 1951-1966, 1976, and undated. Carriker collected birds, primarily in Colombia, for the USNM and Wetmore during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The correspondence concerns Carriker's field work and his research on bird lice.
Folder	10		Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, Jr. Field work, Colombia, 1942-1952, 1957, 1960-1964, and undated. Consists of yearly reports on field work, specimen lists, equipment lists, correspondence, and photographs of his 1951 expedition.
Folder	11		Carriker, Melbourne Romaine, 1970-1972

Box 11 of 240

Folder	1		Ce-Ch, general. Correspondents include E. Burnham Chamberlain, 1938-1945, 1948, 1957, 1964, 1972-1975; David Chase, 1930-1931, 1933, 1940, concerning Wetmore's field work in Spain, 1930; Webster W. Chase, 1963-1964, concerning the Latin American ornithologist Hasso von Wedel; F. N. Chasen, 1936-1941.
Folder	2		Chambers, W. Lee, 1908, 1915, 1919-1928, 1931, 1935, 1940, 1943-1948, and undated. Mostly concerns activities of the Cooper Ornithological Club.
Folder	3		Chapin, Edward Albert, 1918-1920, 1925, 1934-1944, 1947, and undated. Primarily concerns Chapin's duties as Curator, Division of Insects, USNM. The correspondence of 1937 documents his field work in Jamaica.
Folder	4		Chapin, James Paul, 1917-1918, 1921-1929, 1938, 1940-1951, 1956-1957, 1963, and undated. The correspondence of 1943 concerns a controversy over the importation of gorillas from the Belgian Congo.
Folder	5		Chapman, Frank Michler, 1920-1945, and undated. Chapman, Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), was a close colleague of Wetmore's. The correspondence documents various aspects of their research, especially on Latin American birds. Of special interest is the correspondence of 1920-1921 which documents an offer to Wetmore to join the Third Asiatic Expedition of the AMNH to take charge of the zoological collections. Also included is biographical information and an obituary.
Folder	6		Chardon, Carlos E., 1941-1950, 1953-1954. Correspondence concerning the preparation of his Los Naturalistas en la America Latina.
Folder	7		Cherbonnier, E. G., 1952-1953, 1956-1960, 1973-1974
Folder	8		Ci, general

Box 12 of 240

Folder	1		Cl, general. Correspondents include P. A. Clancey, 1957, 1965-1968, 1973, 1975; Harold T. Clark, 1946, 1948, 1950; Theresa Clay, 1945-1948, 1951-1952; Howard H. Cleaves, 1915, 1917, 1922, 1929, 1969-1973.
Folder	2		Clark, Austin H., 1916, 1922-1936, 1939-1943, 1946, and undated. Primarily concerns Clark's work as Curator, Division of Echinoderms, USNM.
Folder	3		Clark, Leila F., 1935-1947. Correspondence and memoranda concerning her duties as Librarian, USNM.
Folder	4		Coa-Cok, general. Correspondents include Theodore D. A. Cockerell, 1930-1936, 1941, 1946.
Folder	5		Cochran, Doris Mable, 1926-1927, 1931, 1935, 1942-1947. Mostly concerns her duties as Assistant Curator and Curator, Division of Reptiles and Amphibians, USNM. The correspondence of 1935 documents Cochran's field research in Brazil.
Folder	6		Col, general. Correspondents include Leon J. Cole, 1927, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1943-1946; Alfred M. Collins, 1925-1931, 1944; Harold S. Colton, 1932-1936, 1940, 1944-1945, 1947.
Folder	7		Collins, Henry Bascom, Jr., 1928-1938, 1945-1946, and undated. Correspondence concerning his work in the Division of Ethnology, USNM, and the Bureau of American Ethnology. Included are letters documenting his Alaska field work, 1929 and 1936.
Folder	8		Com-Con, general. Correspondents include Lawrence V. Compton, 1933-1938, 1942, 1947; John B. Conant, 1946, concerning the selection of a Director for the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Roger Conant, 1945, 1950-1951, 1964, 1968; Jose Alvarez Conde, 1946, 1948, 1951-1952.
Folder	9		Commerford, Lester E., 1925-1934, 1937-1940, 1943, 1946-1948
Folder	10		Conover, H. Boardman, 1935, 1939-1942, 1945-1950, and undated

Box 13 of 240

Folder	1		Coo-Cos, general. Correspondents include Melville Thurston Cook, 1936-1937, 1950; Wells Woodbridge Cooke, 1905, 1908, concerning Wetmore's early ornithological studies; Charles Barney Cory, 1907, 1910, 1919-1920, including an offer to Wetmore to become a field collector for the Field Museum of Natural History, 1910.
Folder	2		Cook, Harold J., 1922, 1927, 1931-1940, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1954-1959, and undated. Correspondence concerning his research on fossil birds.
Folder	3		Coolidge, Harold Jefferson, 1942-1943, 1948, 1951-1953, 1956, 1958, 1969-1970, and undated. Correspondence primarily concerning Coolidge's work as Chairman, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection.
Folder	4		Cooper, G. Arthur, 1931, 1935-1946. Concerns Cooper's curatorial career in the Department of Geology, USNM. The correspondence of 1939 and 1945 documents his field work in Texas.
Folder	5		Corbin, William L., 1925-1941, and undated. Correspondence documenting Corbin's duties as Smithsonian Librarian.
Folder	6		Cot-Cox, general. Correspondents include Edward J. Court, 1935-1936, 1943, concerning his collecting activity in Maryland and Virginia.
Folder	7		Cottam, Clarence, 1937, 1941-1944, 1949, 1955-1962, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, and undated. The correspondence of 1955-1956 concerns the disposition of the Theodore S. Palmer library and papers.
Folder	8		Courtenay-Latimer, Marge, 1957-1964, 1969-1972

Box 14 of 240

Folder	1		Cr, general. Correspondents include Frank C. Craighead, 1947, 1949; John J. Craighead, 1945, 1947; Lee S. Crandall, 1918, 1944, 1953, 1957, 1960; Ralph E. Cropley, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1943-1944, concerning Cropley's collection of maritime data.
Folder	2		Cracraft, Joel, 1966-1975. Correspondence concerning Cracraft's research on avian paleontology.
Folder	3		Crist, Raymond E., 1941-1944, 1947-1948, 1952-1966, 1969. Correspondence primarily concerning Crist's field work in Central and South America.
Folder	4		Cu, general. Correspondents include Carlos E. Cummings, 1939, 1947.
Folder	5		Cuello, Juan, 1959-1962, 1966, 1969-1970
Folder	6		Curtis, Karl P., 1948-1964. Many of the letters contain information concerning Wetmore's Panama field research.
Folder	7		Dabbene, Roberto, 1920-1930, 1933
Folder	8		Daf-Dan, general. Correspondents include Alfons Dampf, 1940-1943, 1946 and Ralph E. Danforth, 1941-1945, 1948, 1952.
Folders	9-10		Danforth, Stuart Taylor, 1925-1930, 1934-1939, and undated. Danforth, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and specialist on West Indies birds, donated his specimen collection to the USNM. The correspondence documents his research and the transfer of his collection to Washington.

Box 15 of 240

Folder	1		Dar-Day, general. Correspondents include M. E. McLellan Davidson, 1928-1929, 1934, 1936; David Edward Davis, 1941, 1948-1951; John Davis, 1952, 1954-1955, 1957.
Folder	2		Davis, L. Irby, 1947, 1949, 1959, 1961-1966, 1969-1976. Correspondence concerning his research on bird calls and songs.
Folder	3		De, general. Correspondents include L. F. de Beaufort, 1930-1932, 1936, 1938 and Theodoor de Booy, 1917-1918.
Folder	4		Deane, Ruthven, 1915, 1922, 1925-1934, and undated. Several letters concern the Deane Collection of Photographs of Ornithologists.
Folder	5		Deignan, Herbert Girton, 1936-1937, 1939, 1943-1948, 1961-1968, and undated. Deignan, an authority on the birds of Southeast Asia, was on the staff of the Division of Birds, USNM, from 1938 to 1961. The correspondence concerns his participation on the Asiatic Primate Expedition, 1937; his study of Asiatic birds in European museums as the recipient of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, 1939; and his retirement in Switzerland, 1962-1968.
Folders	6-7		Delacour, Jean Theodore, 1926-1956, 1970-1971, and undated. Includes news clippings concerning Delacour.
Folder	8		de Schauensee, Rodolphe Meyer, 1933, 1936-1951, 1960, 1964-1970, 1973, and undated

Box 16 of 240

Folder	1		Dharmakumarsinhji, Prince K. S., 1938-1944, 1948, and undated. Correspondence mostly concerning his research on breeding Birds of Paradise.
Folder	2		Di, general. Correspondents include Lee Raymond Dice, 1925-1926, 1928-1929, 1933, 1943-1944, 1947, including a letter (30 June 1925) concerning his interest in the position of Superintendent, National Zoological Park; Frederick M. Dille, 1925, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1938-1939.
Folders	3-4		Dickey, Donald Ryder, 1923-1932, and undated. Dickey, field naturalist and Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology, served with Wetmore on the Tanager Expedition of 1923. Of special interest is correspondence documenting a plan by Dickey to endow a chair of vertebrate zoology for Wetmore at the California Institute of Technology.
Folder	5		Dickey, Florence Van Vechten Murphey (Mrs. Donald Ryder Dickey), 1932-1935, 1940, 1943, 1950-1951, 1954, and undated. Mostly concerns negotiations over the disposition of the Donald Ryder Dickey Collection and Library. The material was eventually donated to the University of California at Los Angeles.
Folder	6		Dickinson, Joshua Clifton, Jr., 1949, 1952-1959, 1964, 1974
Folder	7		Dickison, D. J., 1929, 1932, 1937-1938, 1949, 1957-1962, 1965
Folder	8		Diven, Emerson Liscum, II, 1926-1939, 1953-1954, 1963, 1965, 1971

Box 17 of 240

Folder	1		Dob-Dol, general. Correspondents include Richard L. Dobie, 1933-1939 and Homer L. Dodge, 1944-1949, 1954-1957, 1969.
Folder	2		Don-Doz, general
Folder	3		Dr-Dy, general. Correspondents include Frank Dufresne, 1938, 1942, 1945-1946 and James A. Duke, 1967-1968, including Duke's manuscript "Bird Dietary."
Folder	4		Dugand, Armando, 1938-1953. Correspondence con cerning his research on the birds of Colombia.
Folder	5		Dunn, Thomas W., 1958-1968, 1973. Includes several letters concerning Wetmore's field work in Panama.
Folder	6		Dunning, John S., 1965, 1969-1970, 1973-1974
Folder	7		Dupouy, Walter, 1941-1949, 1967
Folder	8		Dwight, Jonathan, 1924-1927, 1929, and undated. Much of the correspondence concerns the preparation of the fourth edition of the AOU Check-List of North American Birds.

Box 18 of 240

Folder	1		Ea-Ed, general. Correspondents include Harold E. Edgerton, 1947-1948, 1950, 1954.
Folder	2		Edwards, Ernest P., 1959-1960, 1963, 1969-1971
Folder	3		Eg-El, general
Folders	4-6		Eisenmann, Eugene, 1946-1967. Correspondence concerning the birds of Panama.
Folder	7		Ekman, Erik L., 1927-1930. Concerns Ekman's collecting work in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Box 19 of 240

Folder	1		Em-Es, general. Correspondents include Guy Emerson, 1948-1952, 1955, 1958, 1961; Robert K. Enders, 1945-1947, 1956, 1958.
Folder	2		Emerson, Kary Cadmus, 1952, 1957, 1970-1971, 1976
Folder	3		Emlen, John Thompson, Jr., 1929, 1932, 1934, 1949-1950, 1952, 1955-1956, 1961, 1968
Folder	4		Et-Ez, general. Correspondents include R. D. Etchecopar, 1951, 1964-1967; Logan I. Evans, 1928, 1937, 1943; Barton Warren Evermann, 1918-1919, 1924-1925; Alfred Ezra, 1934, 1938-1939, 1942-1943.
Folder	5		Ewan, Joseph, 1958, 1960-1961, 1969, 1974. The letter of 30 April 1974 (Wetmore to Ewan) contains information on the early history of the Barro Colorado Island Research Station.
Folder	6		Fa, general. Correspondents include David Grandison Fairchild, 1938, 1945, 1948-1950; James Waldo Fawcett, 1935, 1937-1938, 1940, 1944, 1947, concerning the Washington Evening Star's coverage of the Smithsonian and USNM.
Folder	7		Fagen, Charles L., 1921-1928, 1937-1941, 1947. Several letters concern his collecting work for the USNM in South America.
Folder	8		Fairchild, Graham Bell, 1951-1959, 1963, 1966-1967, 1970-1971
Folder	9		Farner, Donald Sankey, 1945-1947, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1960-1964, 1967-1968, and undated
Folder	10		Fast, Arthur H., 1945-1947, 1952-1953, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1968-1969
Folder	11		Favour, Paul G., Jr., 1948-1955. Correspondence mostly concerning the birds of Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
Folder	12		Fe-Ff, general. Correspondents include John Alan Feduccia, 1959, 1967, 1970-1971; Ramon Ferreyra, 1944-1947, 1951, 1970; Judith M. Ferrier, 1934-1937, 1943-1950.

Box 20 of 240

Folder	1		Fi, general. Correspondents include Clyde Fisher, 1929, 1933, 1937, 1942, 1947.
Folder	2		Figgins, Jesse D., 1923-1928, 1931-1934, 1941-1944
Folders	3-4		Fisher, Albert Kenrick, 1914-1931, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1945-1947, and undated. Fisher, a biologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, was a long-time colleague and friend of Wetmore's. The correspondence of 1929 documents Fisher's participation on the Pinchot South Seas Expedition. Also included are several letters concerning the Washington Biologists' Field Club.
Folder	5		Fisher, Harvey Irwin, 1945-1954, 1959-1960, 1968-1969, 1971
Folder	6		Fisher, Walter Kenrick, 1922-1938, 1943, 1947-1949, 1952. The correspondence of 1948-1949 concerns the death of Albert Kenrick Fisher. Also included are several letters written to Fisher by European ornithologists in 1904-1905 (see letter of 1 June 1943).
Folder	7		Fisk, Erma J., 1955, 1962, 1971, 1974
Folder	8		Fl, general. Correspondents include Laurence B. Fletcher, 1925-1932.
Folders	9-10		Fleming, James Henry, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1924-1940, and undated. Fleming, a noted Canadian ornithologist, was in constant correspondence with Wetmore. The letters document research interests, AOU business, and various professional issues.

Box 21 of 240

Folder	1		Fo, general. Correspondents include Edward Howe Forbush, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1932-1933, concerning the Massachusetts Division of Ornithology; and Richard L. Fox, 1945-1947.
Folder	2		Foshag, William F., 1926-1941. Correspondence concerning Foshag's official duties as Curator, Department of Geology, USNM. Included are accounts of his collecting work in Mexico, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1934, and 1941.
Folder	3		Fowler, Henry Weed, 1922, 1928-1929, 1932, 1936-1937, 1942
Folder	4		Fr-Fy, general. Correspondents include Herbert Friedenwald, 1943-1944, including several letters concerning Albert Kenrick Fisher, January, 1944.
Folder	5		Freeland, Edward D., 1943-1951. Concerns Wetmore's field research in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
Folder	6		Freeman, George Fouche, 1927-1932, 1937
Folder	7		Frick, Childs, 1929-1930, 1937, 1942-1948
Folder	8		Friedmann, Herbert, 1922-1943, 1957-1965, 1968. Friedmann served as Curator, Division of Birds, USNM, 1929-1957, and Head Curator, Department of Zoology, USNM, 1957-1961. The correspondence documents his appointment and subsequent career at the USNM; his investigation of bird collections in European museums, 1936-1937; and his research on African and South American parasitic birds.
Folder	9		Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1915, 1924-1926
Folder	10		Gaa-Gal, general
Folder	11		Gabrielson, Ira N., 1935-1937, 1940-1956, 1961, and undated
Folder	12		Galindo, Pedro, 1957, 1960-1974, 1976, and undated. Mostly concerns Wetmore's research on the birds of Panama. Included are photographs of the Alexander Wetmore Bridge, Bayano River Station, Panama, 1973.

Box 22 of 240

Folder	1		Ganier, Albert F., 1937-1947, 1950-1965, 1969-1970, and undated. Correspondence mostly concerning the birds of Tennessee.
Folder	2		Gar-Gaz, general. Correspondents include Leon L. Gardner, 1918-1920, 1925-1927, 1965.
Folder	3		Garber, Paul Edward, 1926-1931, 1934-1938, 1941, 1945. Mostly concerns his work as Assistant Curator, Section of Aeronautics, USNM.
Folder	4		Garrido, Orlando H., 1967-1974. Mostly concerns Garrido's work on the birds of Cuba.
Folder	5		Garrity, Devin A., 1957-1958, 1962
Folder	6		Gazin, Charles Lewis, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1945. Concerns Gazin's duties as Assistant Curator, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, USNM. Included is correspondence documenting his field work in Idaho, 1934; New Mexico, 1936; and Utah, 1938.
Folder	7		Ge-Gi, general. Correspondents include Humphrey A. Gilbert, 1935-1942, 1946; Walter M. Gilbert, 1932-1933, 1936, 1943-1944; E. Thomas Gilliard, 1939-1944, 1948, 1959.
Folder	8		Gebhardt, Erwin, 1958-1959
Folder	9		Gillham, Charles Edward, 1942, 1956-1957, 1961, 1965
Folder	10		Gl, general. Correspondents include L. W. Glazebrook, 1945-1952 and Fred H. Glenny, 1941-1946.
Folder	11		Gloyd, Howard Kay, 1924, 1957-1960, 1972-1973
Folder	12		Go, general. Correspondents include Jose Royo y Gomez, 1941-1946, 1951-1952.
Folder	13		Godfrey, W. Earl, 1948-1949, 1952-1956, 1959-1962, 1966-1968, 1973
Folder	14		Goldman, Edward Alphonso, 1925, 1927, 1935-1936, 1938, 1946

Box 23 of 240

Folder	1		Gra, general. Correspondents include C. H. B. Grant, 1942-1943, 1946, 1949-1950, 1952; Ulysses S. Grant, III, 1929-1930, 1932-1933, 1949; William W. Grant, 1927, 1931, 1934, concerning Audubon prints owned by Grant.
Folders	2-3		Graf, John Enos, 1931-1948, and undated. Graf was Associate Director of the USNM, 1931-1945, and later an Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian until 1957. The correspondence documents various aspects of USNM administration.
Folder	4		Graham, David Crockett, 1943-1944, 1949-1950, 1952, 1954-1955, 1959, 1968-1969, 1974. Graham was a missionary in West China. For many years he collected natural history specimens for the USNM. This correspondence post-dates his work in China and primarily concerns the preparation of manuscripts. The letters of 1968-1969, 1974 were exchanged between Wetmore and Graham's daughter, Margaret Graham.
Folder	5		Graham, Edward H., 1947, 1953-1954, 1961
Folder	6		Granger, Walter, 1933-1941
Folder	7		Grant, Chapman, 1930-1934, 1942-1946, 1950, 1956-1961, 1964, 1967-1975

Box 24 of 240

Folder	1		Gre, general. Correspondents include Clifford C. Gregg, 1945-1948, 1953; Herbert E. Gregory, 1923-1925, 1928, including several letters concerning the Tanager Expedition, 1923; John H. Grey, Jr., 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947-1950, 1971.
Folder	2		Greene, Earl R., 1944-1975. Includes correspondence concerning his work with the 600 club.
Folder	3		Greenwalt, Crawford H., 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1969. Includes photographs of chickadees and nuthatches in flight.
Folder	4		Greenway, James C., Jr., 1952-1953, 1957-1958, 1960
Folder	5		Gri, general
Folders	6-8		Grinell, Joseph, 1906, 1913-1939. Grinell was Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, and for many years, Editor of The Condor, journal of the Cooper Ornithological Club. The correspondence concerns the publication of articles by Wetmore in The Condor; research interests; and professional issues.
Folder	9		_________________. John Roy Pemberton Collection, 1921-1926. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work describing Pemberton's collection of Patagonian birds in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

Box 25 of 240

Folder	1		Griscom, Ludlow, 1926, 1932-1936, 1940-1961, 1973. Much of the correspondence concerns their mutual interest in the birds of Panama.
Folder	2		Gro-Gru, general. Correspondents include Owen J. Gromme, 1932, 1937, 1940-1942, 1961; Alfred Otto Gross, 1923, 1927, 1949, 1952-1953, 1959, 1966.
Folder	3		Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1924, 1934, 1950, 1953, 1966, and undated
Folder	4		Gu-Gy, general. Correspondents include Gordon Wright Gullion, 1945-1947, 1950, 1953, 1956; Nils Gyldenstolpe, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1938-1939, 1941, 1946, 1950-1951, 1955.
Folder	5		Guilday, John E., 1958, 1960-1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1971
Folder	6		Hac-Hal, general. Correspondents include Karl W. Haller, 1938-1941, 1953, concerning his discovery of a new species of Dendroica, 1939.
Folder	7		Hachisuka, Marquis, 1931-1937, 1946, 1948, 1953
Folder	8		Haffer, Jurgen H., 1960-1962, 1964, 1968-1971, 1974, 1976. The correspondence mostly concerns the birds of Colombia.
Folder	9		Hall, Eugene Raymond, 1923-1927, 1931-1932, 1939-1966, 1969-1971. Hall, Director of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, maintained a voluminous correspondence with Wetmore. Several letters contain recollections of Wetmore's college days at Lawrence.
Folder	10		Hall, Patricia, 1955-1958, 1961-1966, 1969-1970
Folder	11		Hall, Robert A. E., 1955, 1958-1959, 1961, 1966

Box 26 of 240

Folder	1		Ham-Han, general
Folder	2		Handley, Charles O., Jr., 1947-1949, 1952, 1960-1961, 1965-1966, and undated
Folder	3		Hanna, G. Dallas, 1911-1920, 1925-1926, 1930, 1933, 1966-1967, 1970, and undated. The correspondence of 1911-1917 concerns Hanna's field work in Alaska.
Folder	4		Hanson, Arthur B., 1957, 1968
Folder	5		Hard-Harm, general
Folder	6		Harding, R. Reid, 1934-1936, 1939-1943, 1946-1950
Folder	7		Hardy, John William, 1957, 1962-1966, 1968, 1971
Folders	8-9		Hargrave, Lyndon L., 1932-1939, 1943, 1955-1975, and undated. Correspondence concerning his research on avian paleontology.
Folder	10		Harllee, H. L., 1936-1938

Box 27 of 240

Folder	1		Harp-Harper, general
Folder	2		Harper, Francis, 1916-1917, 1922, 1924-1925, 1928, 1932-1933, 1935, 1939, 1941-1960, 1964-1965, 1969-1971. Included is correspondence concerning Harper's field work in Florida, 1917, and correspondence and a report concerning the Nueltin Lake (Canada) Expedition, 1947.
Folders	3-6		_________________. Report on Extinct and Vanishing Mammals, 1937-1947, and undated. In 1936, the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection commissioned Harper to undertake an investigation of extinct and endangered mammals. Wetmore, along with Harold J. Coolidge and Charles M. D. Cadwalder, served on a committee to supervise the project. The correspondence documents the preparation of Harper's monograph. A companion volume on new world mammals was published by Glover M. Allen. Correspondents include Harper, Coolidge, and Cadwalder.

Box 28 of 240

Folder	1		Harr-Haz, general. Correspondents include James M. Harrison, 1939, 1942, 1953-1954, 1967, 1971.
Folder	2		Harris, Harry, 1919, 1923-1926, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1936, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Harris' research on John Xantus and Robert Ridgway.
Folder	3		Hartert, Ernst Johann Otto, 1921, 1924-1928, 1931-1933, and undated
Folder	4		Hartman, Frank Alexander, 1945, 1949-1965, 1972
Folder	5		Hay, Oliver Perry, 1924-1929, and undated
Folder	6		Hea-Hem, general. Correspondents include Edmund Heller, undated.
Folder	7		Hellmayr, C. E., 1922, 1924, 1926-1932
Folder	8		Hen-Hey, general. Correspondents include Henry Wetherbee Henshaw concerning Wetmore's field work in Alaska and Porto Rico, 1911; Samuel Henshaw, 1918, 1923-1926; F. Seymour Hersey, 1912-1926; Philip Hershkovitz, 1943-1945, 1948, 1950, 1952-1953, 1967, 1969, including letters written from Europe during his service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
Folder	9		Henderson, Edward P., 1931-1932, 1935-1937, 1941-1945, and undated. Mostly concerns Henderson's activities as Associate Curator, Department of Geology, USNM. Included is correspondence documenting his field work in Utah, Colorado, and Montana, 1932; Arkansas, 1935; and Alaska, 1936. Also included are letters relating to his participation at the XVII International Geological Congress, Moscow, 1937.
Folder	10		Henderson, Walter Cleveland, 1924-1926, 1928, 1936-1937, 1943, and undated. Includes photographs of Henderson in Alaska, undated.
Folder	11		Hettmen, Fred, 1920-1921, 1923, 1956. Includes two photographs of Wetmore in Paraguay, 1920 (see letter of 29 November 1956 which also includes recollections of Wetmore's Paraguay field work).
Folder	12		Hi, general
Folder	13		Hibbard, Claude W., 1935, 1938, 1940, 1944-1946, 1949-1950, 1952-1953, 1956
Folder	14		Hicks, Lawrence E., 1935, 1937-1939, 1941-1944, 1946-1947. Much of the correspondence concerns business of the AOU.
Folder	15		Hinds, Rudolpho C., 1960-1965, 1968, 1971-1973

Box 29 of 240

Folder	1		Hoa-Hol, general. Correspondents include Ray P. Holland, 1931, 1934-1935; Ned Hollister, 1917, 1919, 1921-1923 (information on Hollister is also found in the correspondence of Mabel Hollister and W. D. Hollister); Walter W. Holmes, 1932-1933; William Henry Holmes, 1926, 1929, 1931-1932.
Folder	2		Hochbaum, Albert, 1942-1945
Folder	3		Holgersen, Holger, 1948, 1954, 1956-1959, 1961-1962, 1965-1966, 1972-1974
Folders	4-5		Holt, Ernest Golsan, 1913-1945, 1948, 1950-1959, 1961, 1972-1973, and undated. Holt, a Field Naturalist with the Bureau of Biological Survey from 1912 to 1917, was a close personal friend of Wetmore. Included are many letters documenting Holt's field work for the Biological Survey, the Standard Oil Company, and the National Geographic Society in Arizona, Texas, South Dakota, Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela.
Folder	6		Hoo-Hov, general. Correspondents include Joseph Douglas Hood, 1915, 1919-1922, 1924-1928 and Charles B. Hornsburgh, 1930-1931, 1933, 1937.
Folder	7		Horvath, Lajos, 1955-1956, 1960, 1962-1963, 1974
Folder	8		Householder, Vic H., 1925, 1931, 1933, 1936-1938, 1941-1943, 1946, 1949-1952, 1956-1963. Includes photographs of Householder (see letter of 22 June 1952) and Charles D. Bunker (see letter of 5 September 1931).
Folder	9		Houston, Clarence Stuart, 1958-1959

Box 30 of 240

Folder	1		How-Hr, general. Correspondents include Leland Ossian Howard, 1917-1918, 1926, 1929-1930.
Folders	2-3		Howard, Hildegarde, 1927-1974. Consists primarily of correspondence concerning their research on avian paleontology.
Folder	4		Howell, Alfred Brazier, 1924-1932, 1936, 1939, 1944-1946, 1952, 1960, 1967, and undated. The letter of 14 September 1930 concerns the American Society of Mammalogists' disapproval of the predatory mammal policies of the Bureau of Biological Survey; the letter of 28 September 1967 (Wetmore to Luther Little) includes Wetmore's recollections of Howell.
Folder	5		Howell, Thomas Raymond, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971-1975. Correspondence concerning his research on avian paleontology.
Folder	6		Hu-Hy, general. Correspondents include Archie V. Hull, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1948, 1953; Cyril Hurcomb, 1945-1950, 1958, 1969; Julian S. Huxley, 1925, 1927, 1935-1936.
Folder	7		Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, 1932-1937, 1942-1944, 1953, 1957, 1961. The correspondence of 1932-1937 concerns George S. Myers, Leonard P. Schultz, and the Division of Fishes, USNM.
Folder	8		Huey, Laurence M., 1933, 1935, 1942-1943, 1947-1948, 1950, 1958-1961
Folder	9		Huff, Clay G., 1952-1955, 1967
Folder	10		Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1941-1943, 1948. Mostly concerns his research on the ornithologists of the Army Medical Corps.
Folder	11		Humphrey, Philip S., 1955, 1958-1962, 1964, 1968-1971

Box 31 of 240

Folder	1		I, general. Correspondents include Lloyd G. Ingles, 1951-1953; Collingwood Ingram, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1970-1971; Laurence Irving, 1948-1953, 1961-1962.
Folder	2		Ibarra, Jorge A., 1955-1956, 1959-1971, 1977
Folder	3		Ja, general. Correspondents include Hartley H. T. Jackson, 1925-1927, 1942-1944, 1946.
Folder	4		Je, general. Correspondents include Randolph Jenks, 1935, regarding a proposed expedition to Arizona.
Folder	5		Jewett, Stanley Gordon, 1925, 1927-1929, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1942-1943, 1953
Folder	6		Joh-Jon, general. Correspondents include Eldridge R. Fenimore Johnson, 1933, 1945-1946, 1954, 1960 and Malcolm Thomas Jollie, 1942, 1946-1949, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958.
Folder	7		Johnson, Alfred W., 1939-1940, 1945, 1952, 1955-1959, 1962-1974, and undated. Mostly concerns Johnson's research on the birds of Chile.
Folder	8		Johnson, Carl Milton, 1954-1965, 1969, 1973. Johnson was Director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama. The correspondence documents activities of the Laboratory and Wetmore's field work. Included are photographs of the Wetmore canopy bridge, Altos de Maje, Panama.
Folder	9		Johnson, David W., 1947, 1957-1959, 1961, 1964-1975
Folder	10		Jor-Ju, general. Correspondents include G. C. A. Junge, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1959.
Folder	11		Jordan, David Starr, 1925-1926
Folder	12		Jorgensen, Harriet I., 1938, 1940-1941, 1946-1951, 1955-1970, 1974. Includes letters concerning her work on a dictionary of European birds. Also included is a photograph of Jorgensen.
Folder	13		Jourdain, F. C. R., 1931-1939. Mostly concerns the VIII International Ornithological Congress, Oxford, 1934.

Box 32 of 240

Folder	1		Judd, Neil M., 1925-1939, 1942-1944, 1946, 1958. The correspondence concerns Judd's duties as Curator, Department of Anthropology, USNM. Included are letters documenting his activities as Smithsonian representative at the Seventh American Science Congress, Mexico City, 1935.
Folder	2		Ka, general
Folder	3		Kahl, M. Philip, 1959, 1967, 1969-1971, 1974-1975, and undated
Folder	4		Kalmbach, Edwin R., 1916-1921, 1928-1930, 1932, 1935-1941, 1944, 1947-1948, 1952-1953, 1962-1964, 1967-1969, 1971-1972, and undated. Kalmbach was a colleague of Wetmore in the Bureau of Biological Survey and later advanced to Director of the Denver Wildlife Research Laboratory, United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Letters written between 1916 and 1930 contain interesting discussions of Survey work and personnel, as well as Kalmbach's field work in Louisiana, California, and Oregon.
Folder	5		Ke-Kel, general. Correspondents include Peter Paul Kellogg, 1946, 1957-1958; Lewis B. Kellum, 1947, 1956-1958; Harlan P. Kelsey, 1940, 1946-1950.
Folder	6		Keenan, Charles Marvin, 1953, 1955, 1960-1963, 1967-1968, 1971, and undated
Folder	7		Keith, G. Stuart, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969-1970
Folders	8-9		Kellogg, A. Remington, 1914-1917, 1926, 1928-1930, 1932-1933, 1937, 1939, 1941-1947, 1955, 1959, 1969-1973, 1975, and undated. A long-time colleague and friend of Wetmore, Kellogg was employed by both the Bureau of Biological Survey and the USNM, serving the latter as Curator, Division of Mammals, 1928-1948, and Director, 1948-1962. The correspondence concerns his work at the Biological Survey and USNM; his research on marine mammals; and his election to the National Academy of Sciences. Also included is a photograph of Kellogg conducting field work in Arizona, 1942, and correspondence, photographs, and printed materials relating to the dedication of the Kellogg Library of Marine Mammalogy, 1972.
Folder	10		Kelso, Leon J., 1935, 1962, 1964-1966, 1968-1969, 1972-1976

Box 33 of 240

Folder	1		Kempton, James H., 1926, 1936, 1940, 1942-1945, 1947-1954, 1958-1959, 1961. Several letters contain information on Henri Pittier and William H. Phelps, Jr. and their ornithological activities in Venezuela. Also included are photographs of and taken by Kempton.
Folder	2		Kemsies, Emerson, 1953-1954, 1961-1964, 1968-1970
Folder	3		Ken-Key, general. Correspondents include Wyatt A. Kent, 1943-1951; Karl Walton Kenyon, 1938, 1961, 1973; Edwin H. Kerrison, Jr., 1941-1942, 1952, 1959-1960, 1965; Brina Kessel, 1949, 1952-1953, 1959, 1968-1969, 1973, 1975, including a photograph of Kessel.
Folder	4		Kennard, Frederic Hedge, 1925-1937, and undated
Folder	5		Kepler, Cameron B. and Kay, 1968-1971. Primarily concerns their research on the birds of Puerto Rico. Includes three pen and ink drawings of the Elfin Woods Warbler (Dendroica angelae), a new bird described by the Keplers and Kenneth C. Parkes in 1971.
Folder	6		Keve, Andrew, 1939, 1941-1942, 1945-1950, 1952, 1956-1962, 1965-1967, 1970, 1972. Mostly concerns his work on the birds of Hungary.
Folder	7		Ki, general
Folder	8		Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1927-1935, 1938-1939, 1942-1949, and undated
Folder	9		Killip, Ellsworth Paine, 1929, 1931-1932, 1935-1936, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946-1948, 1950-1952. Correspondence concerning Killip's work as Curator, Division of Plants, USNM. Includes letters documenting his field work in Peru, 1929; Colombia, 1939; Chile, 1948; and Florida, 1950. The correspondence of 1935 concerns a study trip to Europe.
Folder	10		King, Samuel Wilder, 1923-1924, 1926-1927, 1943. Includes letters concerning the Tanager Expedition, 1923.
Folder	11		Kinnear, Norman B., 1930, 1934-1935, 1938-1939, 1941-1947, 1949, 1952. The correspondence of 1941 contains information on the effect of World War II on the British Museum (Natural History) and British ornithologists.

Box 34 of 240

Folder	1		Kl-Kn, general. Correspondents include Cecil Boden Kloss, 1926-1931; Charles Robert Knight, 1933-1934, 1938, 1945, 1949, concerning his proposal to paint murals in the exhibition halls of the USNM, 1934.
Folder	2		Ko, general. Correspondents include C. Haven Kolb, 1942-1947; W. H. W. Komp, 1944-1947; S. Koperberg, 1939-1940, 1948, 1952-1953.
Folder	3		Koepcke, Maria, 1959-1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969-1970
Folder	4		Koford, Carl B., 1950, 1952, 1956-1959. Consists mostly of letters concerning the Canal Zone Biological Area where Koford served as Resident Naturalist from 1956 to 1957.
Folder	5		Kr-Ky, general
Folder	6		Krieger, Herbert W., 1927, 1929-1935, 1940-1945, 1947, 1950. Correspondence concerning Krieger's work as Curator of Ethnology, USNM. Included are letters concerning his field work in the Dominican Republic, 1929-1930; Haiti, 1931; and Cuba, 1932.
Folder	7		Kumerloeve, Hans R., 1938, 1940, 1946-1951, 1953, 1962-1963, 1976
Folder	8		Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1920-1922, 1925-1932, 1939, 1949-1950, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1970, 1973, and undated
Folder	9		Laa-Lan, general. Correspondents include Wesley Edwin Lanyon, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1973-1974.
Folder	10		LaBastille, Anne, 1960, 1963, 1966-1974, and undated
Folder	11		Lack, David, 1941, 1943, 1950, 1954-1957, 1962, 1966-1967
Folder	12		Lambrecht, Koloman, 1921-1936, and undated. Correspondence concerning research on fossil birds.
Folder	13		Lantz, David Ernest, 1904, and undated. Includes a handwritten manuscript of Lantz's An Historical List of Kansas Birds.

Box 35 of 240

Folder	1		Lar-Laz, general
Folder	2		Laubmann, Alfred, 1923-1924, 1930-1935, 1938-1940, 1947-1952, 1955-1965. Correspondence concerning the study of South American birds.
Folder	3		Law, John Eugene, 1917-1932, and undated. Law was a California businessman and an ornithologist by avocation. The correspondence documents his interest in the birds of the western United States; his work for the Cooper Ornithological Club; and his personal friendship with Wetmore.
Folder	4		_________________. Will, 1924-1925, 1931. Concerns Law's designation of Wetmore as beneficiary (contingent) to his estate.
Folder	5		Law, Laura Beatty, 1932, 1934-1935, 1937. Mostly concerns John Eugene Law's estate and the disposition of his bird collections. See also under Laura Law Bailey, box 3, Folder 2.
Folder	6		Laycock, George, 1969-1970
Folder	7		Lea-Leg, general. Correspondents include E. Lee LeCompte, 1926-1932, 1941, 1945; John M. Legler, 1958-1959, 1971-1974.
Folder	8		Leakey, Louis S. B., 1960-1963, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's identification of bird fossils from Olduvai Gorge and other African localities.
Folder	9		Lehmann V., F. Carlos, 1940-1946, 1954-1960, 1964, 1966, 1968. Mostly concerns his research on the birds of Colombia.

Box 36 of 240

Folder	1		Lel-Lew, general. Correspondents include Brother Hermano Leon, 1934, 1939, 1942-1943, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1951; Michael Lerner, 1938, 1940, 1943-1944, 1952, including photographs of Lerner; Wendell M. Levi, 1937-1938, 1965.
Folder	2		Lewton, Frederick L., 1929-1938, 1942, 1944. Correspondence concerning Lewton's duties as Curator, Division of Textiles, USNM.
Folder	3		Li, general. Correspondents include Jean M. Linsdale, 1924-1928, 1933, 1936-1939; C. B. Linton, 1907-1908.
Folder	4		Ligon, J. Stokely, 1917-1931, 1942, 1946-1947, 1951-1961. Correspondence mostly concerning Ligon's work on the birds of New Mexico.
Folder	5		Lincoln, Frederick C., 1912-1934, 1938-1955, and undated. Lincoln, a long-time colleague of Wetmore, served in various capacities in the Bureau of Biological Survey and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1920 to 1960. The correspondence concerns Lincoln's work as Curator of Ornithology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1913-1920; his career in the Federal Service; and his research on bird migration.
Folder	6		Lincoln, Lulu (Mrs. Frederick C.), 1963-1964, 1974
Folder	7		Ll, general
Folder	8		Lloyd, Hoyes, 1923, 1927-1937, 1943-1954, 1957- 1959, 1963. Lloyd, a Canadian ornithologist, served as President of the AOU from 1945 to 1948. The correspondence concerns the AOU; his work with the International Committee for Bird Preservation; and his official duties with the Canadian Department of Interior. Included is a photograph of Lloyd, 1923, and a photograph of Wetmore's boyhood home in North Freedom, Wisconsin taken by Mrs. Hoyes Lloyd, 1950.
Folder	9		Lob-Lom, general
Folder	10		Lodge, John Ellerton, 1926, 1929, 1931-1936, 1939, 1942-1943. Lodge was Director of the Freer Gallery of Art, 1920-1942. Most of the correspondence deals with routine administrative matters. Of special interest is a copy of a letter from Carl W. Bishop to Lodge (27 December 1926) concerning his work in China.

Box 37 of 240

Folder	1		Loetscher, Frederick W., Jr., 1946-1950, 1953, 1955-1956, 1969-1970, 1972
Folder	2		Loftin, Horace G., 1961, 1963, 1965-1971, 1973. Mostly concerns Loftin's work on the birds of Panama.
Folder	3		Lon-Loz, general. Correspondents include Bernt Loppenthin, 1933, 1935, 1941, 1948-1949, 1953-1954, 1959, 1968.
Folder	4		Lonnberg, Einar, 1921-1922, 1925-1926, 1928-1931, 1933, 1935-1941
Folder	5		Lovejoy, Thomas E., III, 1960-1961, 1967, 1970-1972, 1974-1975
Folder	6		Low, Percy Roycroft, 1927-1929, 1932, 1934, 1939-1941, 1944, 1946-1947. Several letters during the 1940s contain descriptions of World War II England and the effect of the war on British museums and ornithologists.
Folders	7-9		Lowery, George Hines, Jr., 1937, 1940-1976, and undated. Lowery, Professor of Zoology at Louisiana State University, Director of the University Museum, and President of the AOU, 1959-1963, maintained a constant correspondence with Wetmore for nearly forty years. The letters document his ornithological research and AOU business.

Box 38 of 240

Folder	1		Lu, general. Correspondents include Richard S. Lull, 1923, 1925, 1928-1929, 1936, 1938; Bertha Lutz, 1932, 1940-1941, 1944-1945, 1947.
Folder	2		Ly, general. Correspondents include Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., 1918, 1920, 1923-1924, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1938, 1940-1941; Averil Lysaght, 1954-1955, 1957, 1959, 1965-1966.
Folder	3		Maa-Mac, general. Correspondents include Frank Mace MacFarland, 1935-1938, 1945, including letters of 1935 concerning the suitability of Waldo L. Schmitt for the position of Director of the Museum and Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences.
Folder	4		Mabbott, Douglas C., 1913, 1918-1919, 1921, and undated. Mabbott was a boyhood friend of Wetmore and later worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey. He was killed in action in France in 1919. Included are copies of letters detailing his service in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War I and his death.
Folder	5		MacDonald, J. D., 1943-1944, 1947, 1951, 1954-1959, 1962, and undated
Folder	6		Mad-Maq, general. Correspondents include Henry M. Madden, 1941, 1943, 1947-1948, 1952, concerning his research on John Xantus; Harry Malleis, 1924-1925, concerning his field work in Guatemala; and Stuart Maples, 1907-1908, concerning the exchange of bird skins with Wetmore.
Folder	7		Manning, Catherine L., 1937-1938, 1941, 1943, 1946-1947. Correspondence concerning her duties as Philatelist, Division of History, USNM.
Folder	8		Mar, general. Correspondents include Hermano Niceforo Maria, 1943-1945, 1947-1949, 1952; and Joseph Truesdell Marshall, Jr., 1942, 1949, 1952-1953, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1967.
Folder	9		Marelli, Carlos A., 1933-1935, 1941, 1943
Folder	10		Markus, Miles B., 1961, 1963, 1966-1967
Folder	11		Marshall, Henry Ridgway, 1929-1935. Mostly concerns the birds of North Carolina.
Folder	12		Martin, Handel T., 1918-1921, 1925-1926, 1928-1929, 1931

Box 39 of 240

Folder	1		Mas-May, general. Correspondents include William D. Matthew, 1919-1924; and Noel Mayaud, 1938-1941, 1944-1946, 1948-1949, 1951, 1963-1964.
Folder	2		Mathews, Gregory Macalister, 1925-1939, 1943, 1948-1949, and undated. Many of the letters concern the birds of Polynesia.
Folder	3		Mayfield, Harold Ford, 1950, 1953-1957, 1960, 1963-1966, 1973. Correspondence mostly concerning AOU business.
Folders	4-5		Mayr, Ernst, 1930-1934, 1937-1941, 1944-1968, and undated. Mayr, an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, was Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History, 1932-1953, before moving to Harvard University where he served as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with Wetmore concerning ornithological research, professional issues (including AOU business), and nomenclatural questions.
Folder	6		McA-McF, general. Correspondents include L. McCormick-Goodhart, 1929, 1935, 1940, 1945-1950, 1957; and Irene A. McCullock, 1934, concerning Waldo L. Schmitt and the Hancock Pacific Expedition.
Folders	7-8		McAtee, Waldo Lee, 1914-1946. McAtee served in various capacities with the Bureau of Biological Survey from 1903 to 1940. The correspondence concerns the work of the Biological Survey and its personnel, professional matters, and the Washington Biologists' Field Club.
Folder	9		McClung, Clarence Erwin, 1908, 1920, 1925, 1939-1941, 1943, and undated

Box 40 of 240

Folder	1		McG-McW, general