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
Folder	2		McGregor, Richard Crittenden, 1916-1935, and undated. Mostly concerns the birds of the Philippines.
Folder	3		Mea-Mend, general. Correspondents include Lillian H. Mearns, 1934, 1940-1947 (daughter of Edgar Alexander Mearns); Armando Mencia, 1954, 1968-1973, and undated; Howard L. Mendell, 1936, 1939, 1944, 1958.
Folder	4		Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1881, 1909, and undated. Includes a copy of a letter from Charles W. Richmond to Mearns, 5 December 1909, and a letter from Mearns to Ruthven Deane, 13 April 1881.
Folder	5		Meinertzhagen, Richard, 1938-1946, 1950, 1952, 1957, and undated. Includes a fascinating exchange of correspondence during the World War II era detailing the effect of the war on British ornithologists, museums, and society. Also includes a manuscript copy of Meinertzhagen's Conquisitio Mea. A Record of My Ornithological Activities and Collections.
Folder	6		Meise, Wilhelm, 1930, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1968-1970, 1976
Folders	7-8		Memoranda, 1941, 1953-1976. Mostly routine communications with Smithsonian and USNM officials and staff.
Folder	9		Mendez P., Alejandro, 1948-1966, 1969. Several letters concern Wetmore's field work in Panama.
Folder	10		Mendez, Eustorgio, 1959-1975. Much of the correspondence concerns Wetmore's research on the birds of Panama.

Box 41 of 240

Folder	1		Mengel, Robert M. and Marion J., 1948, 1952-1953, 1957, 1959, 1961-1969, 1972-1975. Includes correspondence concerning Robert Mengel's research on the birds of Kentucky and his work as Editor of The Auk.
Folder	2		Menn-Mey, general. Correspondents include Clinton Hart Merriam, 1910, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932-1933; Elmer Drew Merrill, 1937, 1943-1946, 1952; Oliver Meylan, 1926, 1933-1935, 1937, 1942, 1944.
Folder	3		Merrill, George P., 1925-1929, 1935. Concerns his work as Head Curator, Department of Geology, USNM. Included are letters concerning his participation as Smithsonian representative at the International Geological Congress, Madrid, 1930.
Folder	4		Mic-Miller, general. Correspondents include Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., 1917, 1931, 1937, 1939-1940.
Folders	5-6		Miller, Alden Holmes, 1930-1936, 1940-1965. Much of the correspondence documents the work of Wetmore and Miller as members of the AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North American Birds.

Box 42 of 240

Folders	1-3		Miller, Loye Holmes, 1914, 1921-1945, 1948-1959, 1962-1970, and undated. Correspondence regarding Miller's research on avian paleontology, especially his work on the fossil birds of California. Included are typescript copies of Miller's diaries documenting a 1904 cruise of the Albatross, and field trips to Hawaii, 1900 and the Gulf of California, 1939. Also included is a photograph of Miller, 1969, and comments on his son, Alden Holmes Miller (see correspondence of 1966).
Folder	4		Miller, Waldron Dewitt, 1915-1917, 1920, 1922, 1924-1929. Includes correspondence concerning the work of Wetmore and Miller on the 4th edition of the AOU Check-list of North American Birds, 1925-1928.
Folder	5		Milli-Mit, general
Folder	6		Mindte, Richard W., 1956-1961
Folder	7		Mitman, Carl W., 1927-1947, 1952. Mitman held several curatorial positions in the USNM from 1918 until 1952, culminating with his appointment as Assistant to the Secretary for the National Air Museum. The correspondence documents his duties at the USNM, including his work at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, 1933, and the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, 1935.

Box 43 of 240

Folder	1		Moc-Moo, general. Correspondents include Henry Allen Moe, 1952, 1964-1965, 1967; Edgardo Moltoni, 1929-1930, 1937, 1946-1947; John Percy Moore, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1949.
Folder	2		Moffitt, James, 1934-1936, 1939-1942
Folder	3		Monroe, Burt L., Jr., 1938, 1940, 1949, 1954, 1958-1959, 1961, 1963, 1967-1968, 1971, 1973. Mostly concerns Monroe's research on the birds of Honduras. Also includes correspondence of Burt L. Monroe, Sr.
Folders	4-5		Moore, Robert Thomas, 1929-1947, 1950, 1953, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning the Donald R. Dickey collection and the proposed vertebrate zoology project at the California Institute of Technology.
Folder	6		Mor, general. Correspondents include R. E. Moreau, 1950-1952, 1963-1967; James Bruce Morehead, 1936-1939, and undated; Brent M. Morgan, 1924-1928, 1934; Theodor Mortensen, 1926-1928, 1933, 1941, 1945, 1948; Conrad Vernon Morton, 1933, 1945-1947.
Folders	7-8		Moreno Bonilla, Abelardo, 1948-1959, 1962-1963, 1968-1971, and undated. Mostly concerns his research on the birds of Cuba.

Box 44 of 240

Folder	1		Mos-Moz, general. Correspondents include R. Allyn Moser, 1946-1951, mostly concerning AOU business; Alan Mozley, 1931-1936, concerning his work on the mollusks of Siberia as recipient of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship.
Folder	2		Mountford, Charles Pearcy, 1948, 1953-1960, 1964-1965, 1968-1973, 1976. Much of the correspondence concerns the Arnhem Land Expedition, 1948, and the publication of the scientific results.
Folder	3		Mud-Murp, general. Correspondents include Carlos Munoz, 1940-1943, 1946, 1950, 1965, 1975-1976; J. A. Munro, 1927, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1951-1952; Olaus Johan Murie, 1927, 1937, 1945-1946, 1949, 1952.
Folder	4		Mumford, Edward Philpott, 1934, 1936. Includes a typescript copy of his report "Fauna of the Marquesas Islands - Birds."
Folders	5-7		Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1918, 1921-1956, 1961-1962, 1968. Murphy, noted American Museum of Natural History ornithologist and explorer, exchanged letters with Wetmore for over fifty years. The correspondence documents activities of their respective museums; research interests; field work; and professional issues (especially the National Association of Audubon Societies).

Box 45 of 240

Folder	1		Murr-My, general. Correspondents include T. E. Musselman, 1942, 1951-1952, 1955-1956, 1965-1969; Charles W. Myers, 1966-1967, 1970, 1973; George Sprague Myers, 1932-1933, 1945, 1968, 1971.
Folders	2-4		Murray, Joseph James, 1928, 1935-1971. Murray, a clergyman and amateur ornithologist, was for many years involved with the Virginia Society of Ornithology and served as Editor of its journal The Raven. The correspondence documents activities of the VSO; Murray's research on the birds of Virginia; and Wetmore's field work in Shenandoah National Park.
Folder	5		Na-Ne, general. Correspondents include Arnold Lars Nelson, 1931, 1940, 1944-1946, 1963; Oscar Rudolph Neumann, 1930, 1932-1933, 1941-1943.
Folder	6		Nelson, Edward William, 1920, 1923-1934, and undated. A famed naturalist and explorer, Nelson was Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey from 1916 to 1926. Included is correspondence concerning Wetmore's appointment as Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, November 1924.

Box 46 of 240

Folder	1		Nic, general. Correspondents include John Treadwell Nichols, 1914, 1916, 1918-1922, 1927, 1929; Rachel H. Nichols, 1938, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1958; E. M. Nicholson, 1946-1947, 1955, 1957, 1959.
Folder	2		Nice, Margaret Morse, 1928-1929, 1933, 1935, 1937-1938, 1945-1953, 1957, 1965
Folders	3-5		Nicholson, Donald John, 1929, 1931-1932, 1937, 1941-1963. Correspondence concerning the birds of Florida.
Folder	6		Nie-Nol, general. Correspondents include Harvey Harlow Nininger, 1934, 1936, 1939; G. Kingsley Noble, 1917-1918, 1927-1929, 1935, 1938, 1941; Hans Noll, 1939-1941, 1945-1947, 1949-1950, 1955.
Folder	7		Nor-Ny, general. Correspondents include Jesse L. Nusbaum, 1932-1933, 1942, 1945, 1955, 1969.

Box 47 of 240

Folder	1		Ob-Ol, general. Correspondents include Harry Church Oberholser, 1947-1948, 1951; Georges Olivier, 1935-1936, 1940, 1946, 1949; Arthur J. Olmstead, 1928, 1934-1937, 1939-1940, including several photographs of the Smithsonian Castle and the Washington Monument.
Folder	2		Oehser, Paul Harry, 1931-1944, 1946, 1961, 1969, and undated. Correspondence concerning his duties as Editor, USNM.
Folder	3		Olivares, Antonio, 1949, 1952, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963, 1966-1967, 1969-1970. Correspondence concerning his work on the birds of Colombia.
Folder	4		Oliver, Lawrence L., 1931, 1934-1948. Correspondence and memoranda concerning his service as Property Officer, and later, Superintendent of Buildings and Labor, USNM.
Folder	5		Olsen, Stanley J., 1955, 1957, 1959-1961, 1964-1975. Correspondence concerning his research on avian paleontology.
Folder	6		Olson, Storrs L., 1966-1975, and undated. Correspondence concerning his research on fossil birds.
Folder	7		On-Ow, general. Correspondents include Oscar Theodore Owre, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972-1974.
Folder	8		Oppenheim, Victor, 1941-1945, 1950. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's field work in Colombia, 1941.
Folder	9		Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1923, 1926-1929, 1931, 1934, 1940-1951
Folder	10		Osgood, Wilfred Hudson, 1921-1925, 1928-1929, 1933-1934, 1937-1946, and undated. Includes correspondence documenting the administration and activities of the Field Museum of Natural History. The letters of December 1921 concern an offer to Wetmore to become Curator of Ornithology at the museum.

Box 48 of 240

Folder	1		Pac-Pal, general. Correspondents include Fred M. Packard, 1942, 1945-1946, 1951-1952 and Harold S. Palmer, 1923-1927, 1935.
Folder	2		Palmer, Ralph S., 1940-1942, 1945, 1949-1972, 1975-1976. Includes correspondence concerning Palmer's work as Editor of the AOU Handbook of North American Birds.
Folder	3		Palmer, Theodore Sherman, 1901, 1911, 1926, 1929-1936, 1938, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1952-1959, and undated. The correspondence of 1955-1959 concerns the transfer of Palmer's papers to the Library of Congress.
Folder	4		Pan-Par, general. Correspondents include Albert Eide Parr, 1930, 1932, 1943.
Folder	5		Parish, Lee H., 1929-1930. Mostly concerns zoological collections made on the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930.
Folders	6-7		Parish, Semmes W. and Katherine, 1930-1950, 1954, and undated. S. W. Parish financed and participated on the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930, thus beginning a long-term friendship with Wetmore. Many of the letters contain information on USNM expeditions and field work during the 1930s.
Folder	8		Parkes, Kenneth Carroll, 1951-1969, 1972, 1974. Correspondence concerning Parkes' research on Central and South American birds; joint publications by Wetmore and Parkes; and various professional issues, especially dealing with the AOU and the Wilson Ornithological Society.
Folder	9		Parmalee, Paul Woodburn, 1954-1962, 1964-1969, 1972-1974. Correspondence concerning his research on avian paleontology.
Folder	10		Partridge, William H., 1954-1956, 1964

Box 49 of 240

Folder	1		Pat-Pay, general
Folder	2		Patterson, Bryan, 1937-1938, 1941-1942, 1959-1960
Folder	3		Paynter, Raymond Andrew, Jr., 1946-1947, 1951-1952, 1955-1975, and undated
Folder	4		Pea-Pee, general. Correspondents include Arthur Sperry Pearse, 1929-1934, 1936, 1947, 1949; Oliver P. Pearson, 1946, 1955, 1965, 1971; Max Minor Peet, 1936, 1938, 1940-1942, 1944, 1946-1948.
Folder	5		Pearse, Theed, 1954, 1956, 1958-1959, 1961, 1969
Folder	6		Pel-Peters, J. A., general. Correspondents include Harold S. Peters, 1924, 1936, 1943, 1951-1953.
Folder	7		Pemberton, John Roy, 1922, 1924-1925, 1959. Mostly concerns Wetmore's work on the Pemberton Collection of Patagonian Birds in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. See also box 24, Folder 9.
Folder	8		Perrygo, Watson M., 1930, 1936-1939, 1969, and undated. A taxidermist at the USNM from 1927 to 1964, Perrygo often accompanied Wetmore on collecting trips. The correspondence documents Perrygo's field work in Haiti, 1930; West Virginia, 1936; Tennessee, 1937; and Kentucky, 1938.
Folders	9-11		Peters, James Lee, 1915-1934. Peters, an ornithologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, was a close associate and friend of Wetmore. The correspondence documents field work in Argentina by both men, 1921; Peters' service in Germany and France during World War I; and joint publications on the birds of Argentina. Of special interest is a letter from Peters to Wetmore (20 Jan 1921) which contains a discussion of the possibility of Wetmore joining the Roy Chapman Andrews China Expedition.

Box 50 of 240

Folders	1-4		Peters, James Lee, 1935-1953, 1957. Correspondence concerning ornithological research, especially his publication, Check-List of the Birds of the World, vols I-VIII; and professional activities, including his work as President of the AOU, and as President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Correspondence post-dating Peters' death in 1952 concerns the preparation of a biographical sketch by Wetmore for publication in The Auk.
Folder	5		Peters, W. G.-Pey, general. Correspondents include George A. Petrides, 1942-1947.
Folder	6		Peterson, Roger Tory, 1943-1952, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963-1970, 1973-1975, and undated
Folder	7		Pettingill, Olin Sewall, Jr., 1943-1944, 1947-1953, 1956, 1962-1971. Much of the correspondence concerns Pettingill's duties as Secretary of the AOU.

Box 51 of 240

Folder	1		Pf, general
Folders	2-7		Phelps, William H., and William H., Jr., 1938-1976. Phelps, an American businessman residing in Venezuela, was a noted ornithologist who established the Phelps Ornithological Collection in Caracas. A mutual interest in the birds of the American tropics resulted in a close association between Phelps and his son, William, Jr., and Wetmore. The correspondence documents joint publications; research projects; and field expeditions, including Wetmore's participation on the 1954 expedition to the Territory of Amazonas.

Box 52 of 240

Folder	1		Phi-Pin, general
Folder	2		Philippi B., Rudulfo A., 1937-1946, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1966-1969. Mostly concerns the birds of Chile.
Folder	3		Phillips, Allan Robert, 1938-1940, 1943-1947, 1950-1976. Mostly concerns his research on the birds of Arizona and Mexico.
Folders	4-5		Phillips, John Charles, 1917, 1920-1938, 1965, and undated. Much of the correspondence relates to Phillip's activities as Chairman of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection. The correspondence of 1965 concerns the John C. Phillips Memorial Medal.
Folder	6		Pierce, Fred John, 1952, 1957, 1962-1963, 1968-1976. Includes a photograph of Pierce.
Folder	7		Pinchot, Gifford, 1919, 1929-1932, 1935-1946, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning the Pinchot South Seas Expedition, 1929.
Folder	8		Pinto, Oliverio M. de, 1935, 1938-1948, 1955, 1965-1966, 1969, 1973. Correspondence concerning the birds of Brazil.

Box 53 of 240

Folder	1		Pip-Piz, general. Correspondents include Grover C. Pitts, 1937-1941.
Folder	2		Pitelka, Frank Alois, 1943, 1945, 1950-1957, 1962. Includes correspondence concerning Pitelka's work on the fifth edition of the AOU Check-List of North American Birds.
Folder	3		Pittier, Henri, 1937-1939, 1942-1950
Folder	4		Pl-Pop, general
Folder	5		Podtiaguin, Boris, 1943-1945, 1948
Folder	6		Popenoe, William Wilson, 1937-1942, 1945-1949, 1951, 1957
Folder	7		Por-Pow, general. Correspondents include Frederick A. Potts, 1919-1922, 1927-1929, 1932, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1949 and Jens Poulsen, 1964-1969, 1974.
Folder	8		Pough, Richard H., 1940, 1945-1959
Folder	9		Pra-Pren, general. Correspondents include Wallace E. Pratt, 1923, 1936, 1942, 1953, 1965-1966, 1970, 1972 and Edward Alexander Preble, 1911, 1925, 1927, 1930-1931, and undated.
Folder	10		Prentice, Sydney C., 1925-1944. Mostly concerns Prentice's work illustrating papers and articles by Wetmore.

Box 54 of 240

Folder	1		Pres-Py, general
Folder	2		Preston, Frank W., 1956, 1958-1959, 1965-1969, 1975
Folder	3		Publications, mailing lists, 1958-1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, and undated
Folders	4-6		Publications, requests, A-Z, 1953-1976, and undated
Folder	7		Q, general
Folder	8		Raa-Ran, general
Folder	9		Rand, Austin Loomer, 1943-1944, 1947, 1950, 1955, 1957-1958, 1961-1963, 1966, 1968, 1970

Box 55 of 240

Folder	1		Rap-Raz, general. Correspondents include William F. Rapp, Jr., 1943, 1945, 1949-1952, 1958-1959 and William deC. Ravenel, 1916-1918, 1922-1925.
Folder	2		Rea-Reh, general. Correspondents include Amadeo M. Rea, 1966-1972; Chester A. Reeds, 1926-1928, 1933; Harald A. Rehder, 1936, 1944, 1946, 1957, 1976.
Folder	3		Redington, Paul G., 1927-1933
Folder	4		Reed, Edwyn P., 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932-1933, 1940, 1946-1947
Folder	5		Rehn, James Abram Garfield, 1921, 1941, 1943-1944, 1948, 1953, 1957
Folder	6		Rei-Rey, general
Folder	7		Reilly, Edgar Morton, Jr., 1948-1957, 1962, 1966, 1968. Correspondence primarily concerning Reilly's work assembling range data for the AOU Check-List of North American Birds.
Folder	8		Rennie, Robert G., 1950-1951, 1957-1960, 1962-1966, 1969
Folder	9		Rh-Ric, general. Correspondents include Willis Horton Rich, 1928, 1930, 1932-1933, 1935, 1941; Horace C. Richards, 1932; Horace Gardiner Richards, 1931-1932, 1948-1949, 1962.
Folder	10		Rich, Patricia Vickers, 1968-1974
Folder	11		Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1914-1928, 1945, and undated. Richmond was a Curator in the Division of Birds, USNM from 1895 to 1932. Consists mostly of correspondence written by Richmond to Wetmore in the field. Included are many letters documenting daily activities in the USNM and containing information on the Washington scientific community.

Box 56 of 240

Folder	1		Rid-Riv, general. Correspondents include Elmer S. Riggs, 1926, 1930, 1934-1935, concerning the Field Museum of Natural History Paleontological Expedition to Argentina, 1926.
Folder	2		Ridgely, Robert S., 1972-1974. Correspondence mostly concerning the birds of Panama.
Folder	3		Ridgway, Robert, 1918, 1924, 1926-1929, 1931-1932, and undated. Correspondence post-dating Ridgway's death in 1929 is with John L. Ridgway.
Folder	4		Riley, Joseph Harvey, 1914-1916, 1918-1923. Riley worked as an Aid, and later Curator, in the Division of Birds, USNM, from 1898 to 1941. These letters were written to Wetmore while he was on field trips for the U. S. Biological Survey.
Folders	5-6		Ripley, S. Dillon, 1939-1966, 1969, 1972, 1976, and undated. A noted ornithologist and eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Ripley also served as Assistant Curator in the Division of Birds, USNM from 1942 to 1943. The correspondence concerns his appointment at the USNM, 1942; his work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II; field work in India, 1950; ornithological research; and his election as Secretary of the Smithsonian.
Folder	7		Roa-Robe, general. Correspondents include Chandler S. Robbins, 1936, 1946-1951, 1959, 1967-1968, 1973; Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 1929, 1936, 1943; H. Radclyffe Roberts, 1934, 1942-1943, 1955; Leo B. Roberts, 1928, 1930, 1935-1937, 1940, 1948-1949; Thomas S. Roberts, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1941.
Folder	8		Robb, Wallace Havelock, 1926-1930, 1936, 1938-1939, 1943-1944, 1948, 1963-1964, and undated
Folder	9		Robi, general. Correspondents include Joseph Robinson, 1942-1944, 1951-1952.

Box 57 of 240

Folder	1		Roc-Roe, general. Correspondents include Juvenal Valerio Rodriquez, 1935, 1940-1943, 1948.
Folder	2		Rockwell, Robert B., 1913-1921, 1924, 1928, and undated. Mostly concerns his collaboration with Wetmore on a list of birds in the vicinity of Golden, Colorado.
Folder	3		Rog-Roo, general. Correspondents include Charles Henry Rogers, 1922, 1934, 1944, 1954, 1958-1959, 1965, 1970, 1972-1973; Sievert Allen Rohwer, 1924, 1927, 1932, 1934; Kermit Roosevelt, 1933-1934, 1943.
Folder	4		Romer, Alfred S., 1935-1936, 1942-1963, 1974. Much of the correspondence concerns Wetmore's service as a member of the Committee of the Overseers to Visit the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1947-1961.
Folder	5		Ronne, Finn, 1947-1948, 1951, 1955, 1963, 1967. Includes correspondence concerning the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1946-1948.
Folder	6		Ror-Roz, general. Correspondents include Charles A. Ross, 31 December 1966, with a photograph of Margaret Wetmore (1934); William Rowan, 1933, 1940, 1947-1948.
Folder	7		Rowe, Leo S., 1926, 1933-1946
Folder	8		Rub-Rus, general
Folder	9		Ruschi, Augusto, 1958-1962, 1964, 1968
Folder	10		Russell, James Townsend, Jr., 1928-1935, 1943, 1946, and undated. Correspondence concerning Russell's work as Collaborator in Old World Archaeology, USNM.

Box 58 of 240

Folder	1		Rut-Ry, general. Correspondents include Alexander Grant Ruthven, 1922, 1926, 1928-1929, 1932, 1935; John A. Ruthven, 1968, 1974; Knowles A. Ryerson, 1931, 1934-1946, 1951, 1975.
Folder	2		Ruzic, Raiko H., 1948-1950, 1953, 1956, 1963-1968, 1971-1972, 1974, and undated
Folder	3		Rydzewski, W., 1953-1965, 1970, 1973-1974, and undated. Correspondence mostly concerning The Ring, an international bulletin devoted to bird banding and bird migration studies.
Folder	4		Sac-Sal, general. Correspondents include E. M. Sackett, 1916-1921, 1925-1926, 1932-1933, concerning Bear River Marsh, Utah; Dean Sage, Jr., 1939, concerning David Crockett Graham.
Folder	5		Salomonsen, Finn, 1935-1936, 1945-1947, 1953, 1955-1956
Folder	6		Sam-Say, general. Correspondents include Colin Campbell Sanborn, 1922, 1926-1927, 1945-1947; E. G. Franz Sauer, 1967-1968, 1971, 1976.
Folder	7		Scarlett, Ron J., 1955-1959, 1962-1963, 1968-1969, 1972
Folder	8		Scha-Schl, general. Correspondents include Samuel Schaub, 1938, 1945-1951, 1954-1955; Otto H. Schindewolf, 1936-1939.

Box 59 of 240

Folder	1		Schm-Schw, general. Correspondents include Ralph W. Schreiber, 1969-1972, including letters concerning Wetmore's investigation of Brown Pelicans in Florida, 1919; Charles Schuchert, 1931, 1937-1938, 1941.
Folder	2		Schmidt, Karl Patterson, 1926-1927, 1929, 1941-1948, 1951, 1955-1956, 1958
Folders	3-4		Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, 1926-1948, 1957, and undated. Schmitt, an invertebrate zoologist, served in various curatorial and administrative positions in the USNM from 1910 to 1957. Included is correspondence documenting Schmitt's participation on scientific expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, 1933-1935, 1938.
Folder	5		Schorger, Arlie William, 1936, 1942-1963, 1966-1967
Folder	6		Schultz, Leonard Peter, 1936-1948. Schultz served as Curator, Division of Fishes, USNM, from 1936 to 1965. Included is correspondence documenting his appointment at the USNM, and a report on his participation on the U. S. Navy Surveying Expedition to the Phoenix Islands, 1939.
Folder	7		Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1926-1928, 1932, 1946, 1948. Much of the correspondence concerns the publication of Wetmore's The Birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 1927.

Box 60 of 240

Folder	1		Sclater, W. L., 1914, 1925, 1928-1929, 1931, 1933, 1940-1942, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning the publication of A Collection of Birds from the Fiji Islands, co-authored by Wetmore and Casey A. Wood, 1926.
Folder	2		Sco-Se, general. Correspondents include W. E. D. Scott, 1906, including letters giving advice to Wetmore on becoming a professional ornithologist; William Berryman Scott, 1927-1928, 1930, 1938-1939, 1945-1946; George A. Seaman, 1962-1967, 1973-1974; Ernest Thompson Seton, 1919, 1934, 1945.
Folder	3		Scott, Frederic R., 1947-1951, 1953, 1957-1960, 1963-1964, 1967, 1969-1971. Correspondence concerning the Virginia Society of Ornithology; the birds of Virginia; and Wetmore's research on the birds of Shenandoah National Park.
Folder	4		Seeley, James W., 1917, 1937, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1951-1954, 1957, and undated. Seeley was a boyhood friend of Wetmore and their correspondence contains reminiscences of growing up in North Freedom, Wisconsin.
Folder	5		Segura Paguaga, Alfonso, 1942-1947, 1969, and undated. Correspondence mostly concerning his participation on a paleontological field expedition to Wyoming for the USNM in 1942.
Folder	6		Serventy, D. L., 1938-1942, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1962. Correspondence mostly concerning the birds of Australia.
Folder	7		Setzler, Frank M., 1931-1948. Correspondence concerning Setzler's career as Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, USNM. Also includes letters documenting his field work in Texas, 1932-1933, 1938, and Illinois, 1940.
Folder	8		Sha, general
Folder	9		Shannon, Earl V., 1926-1929, 1933-1936, 1940-1942, and undated

Box 61 of 240

Folder	1		She-Shu, general. Correspondents include William Gulliver Sheldon, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1945-1946; M. C. Shelesnyak, 1951, and undated; T. Vaughn Sherrin, 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1921, 1926.
Folder	2		Short, Lester Leroy, Jr., 1958, 1963, 1965, 1968-1969, 1971-1974
Folder	3		Shufeldt, Percy W., 1932-1935, 1937, 1939, 1941-1943, 1946
Folder	4		Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1897, 1915-1916, 1920-1922, 1926-1927. Shufeldt was an army surgeon, ornithologist, and founding member of the AOU. Included are copies of letters documenting an attempt by Elliott Coues to remove Shufeldt from the AOU due to the publication of his "On the Medico-Legal Aspect of Impotency in Women," 1897.
Folder	5		Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1940, 1949-1950. Grandson of Robert Wilson Shufeldt, and son of Percy W. Shufeldt. The correspondence mostly concerns his father's collection of South American birds at the University of Michigan.
Folder	6		Sib-Simo, general. Correspondents include C. L. Sibley, 1936-1937, 1940-1942, 1944; George Finlay Simmons, 1926-1928, 1935, 1938-1939; Stephen Chapman Simms, 1928, 1931-1932, 1935-1936.
Folder	7		Sibley, Charles Gald, 1944-1945, 1949-1962, 1965, 1967-1968, 1971, 1973-1974. Includes correspondence concerning the AOU; his research to establish a new method of bird classification based on the protein make-up of egg albumen; and a controversy between Sibley and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the illegal importation of birds eggs.
Folder	8		Siemel, Sasha A., 1937, 1939-1940, 1943-1946, 1949-1955, 1965, and undated. Includes photographs of Siemel on big game hunting trips to Brazil.
Folder	9		Simonetta, Alberto M., 1960-1961, 1963, 1968
Folder	10		Simp-Siw, general. Correspondents include William J. Sinclair, 1922, 1928-1929, 1931-1932.
Folder	11		Simpson, George Gaylord, 1928-1937, 1940, 1942, 1945, 1960, 1967. Mostly concerns Simpson's work on the Fort Union vertebrate paleontology collection in the USNM. Included is a photograph of Simpson and his family.

Box 62 of 240

Folder	1		Sirovich, William I., 1935. Correspondence concerning proposed legislation (H. J. Res. 220) to establish a United States Department of Science, Art, and Literature, 1935. Also includes a draft copy of "A Partial Report on Government-Supported and Government-Aided Scientific Activities in Foreign Countries," undated, author unknown.
Folder	2		Sj-Sl, general. Correspondents include H. Jermain Slocum, 1933, 1936-1939, 1943-1946, and undated.
Folder	3		Skutch, Alexander F., 1967-1970, 1973, 1975. Correspondence concerning neo-tropical ornithology.
Folder	4		Sladen, William Joseph Lambert, 1961, 1973. The 1961 letters concern Sladen's field work in Alaska.
Folder	5		Slud, Paul, 1953, 1958-1964, and undated. Correspondence primarily concerning his research on the birds of Costa Rica.
Folder	6		Sm, general. Correspondents include Franklin W. Smith, 1937, 1967, including a photograph of Wetmore aboard the S. S. Stuyvesant, October 1937.
Folder	7		Smith, Hobart Muir, 1940-1946, 1950, 1962-1963, and undated. Includes correspondence documenting Smith's field work investigating Mexican reptiles and amphibians as the recipient of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, 1940-1941.
Folder	8		Smith, Hugh McCormick, 1919-1920, 1922, 1925-1937, and undated. Most of the correspondence concerns Smith's collecting work for the USNM in Siam.
Folder	9		Smithers, Reay H. N., 1957-1975, and undated. Much of the correspondence concerns Smithers work collecting fossil birds for Wetmore.

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Folder	1		Sn, general. Correspondents include David W. Snow, 1950, 1956, 1963-1965, 1969, 1971-1973; Thomas Elliot Snyder, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1936-1937, 1948-1951, 1959, 1970.
Folder	2		Snyder, Dorthy Eastman, 1955-1959, 1962-1966, 1970, 1976, and undated
Folder	3		Snyder, Lester L., 1926-1929, 1932, 1935-1941, 1944, 1946-1947, 1950, 1953-1964
Folder	4		So, general. Correspondents include Robert B. Sosman, 1918-1919, concerning Wetmore's election to the Washington Academy of Sciences.
Folder	5		Solecki, Ralph S., 1952-1954. Correspondence concerning Solecki's archaeological excavations of Shanidar Cave, Iraq.
Folder	6		Sp-Sq, general. Correspondents include Charles C. Sperry, 1921, 1927, 1956.
Folder	7		Speirs, J. Murray and Doris Huestis, 1947, 1952, 1956-1957, 1959
Folder	8		Sprunt, Alexander, Jr., 1927, 1929, 1934-1937, 1941-1942, 1945-1951, 1955, 1957. Much of the correspondence concerns Sprunt's work as Southern Representative of the National Association of Audubon Societies.
Folder	9		Sta, general
Folder	10		Stadel, Katherine Lee Wetmore, 1958-1961, 1969-1974. Correspondence concerning genealogy of the Wetmore family.
Folder	11		Stager, Kenneth Earl, 1946, 1961-1964, 1966, 1972

Box 64 of 240

Folder	1		Stea-Step, general
Folder	2		Stefansson, Vilhjamur, 1938-1943, 1945, 1949-1950, 1956. Much of the correspondence concerns activities of the Explorers Club.
Folder	3		Steirly, Charles C., 1958-1961. Correspondence mostly concerning activities of the Virginia Society of Ornithology.
Folders	4-5		Stejneger, Leonhard, 1923-1924, 1927-1946, 1953. Stejneger, a renowned naturalist, was associated with the USNM for over sixty years as Curator, Division of Reptiles and Amphibians, and Head Curator of Biology. Most of the correspondence concerns USNM business. Of special interest is correspondence documenting Stejneger's participation at the International Zoological Congress at Budapest (10th), 1927; Padova, Italy (11th), 1930; and Lisbon (12th), 1935. Correspondence post-dating his death in 1943 primarily concerns the disposition of Stejneger's library.
Folder	6		Stephens, Thomas Calderwood, 1927, 1932, 1935, 1937
Folder	7		Ster-Stew, general
Folder	8		Sternberg, George F., 1926, 1930, 1945, 1947-1948, 1961, 1963-1964, 1966, 1969
Folder	9		Stevens, Charles E., Jr., 1947-1952, 1955. Correspondence concerning the birds of Shenandoah National Park.
Folder	10		Stevenson, Henry Miller, 1948-1951, 1954, 1956, 1959-1961, 1970-1971, 1973-1975
Folder	11		Stewart, Thomas Dale, 1930-1931, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1946. Official correspondence concerning his service as Curator, Department of Anthropology, USNM.

Box 65 of 240

Folder	1		Sti, general
Folder	2		Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1926-1935, 1938-1949, 1953-1954, 1958-1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1974-1975. Sterling was an archaeologist and Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1928-1958. Of special interest is correspondence documenting his work on the American-Dutch Expedition into Netherlands New Guinea, 1926. Also included are letters concerning field work in Veracruz, 1946, and Panama, 1948, 1953.
Folder	3		Stirton, Ruben Arthur, 1925-1935, 1940-1945, 1952, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Stirton's field work in El Salvador, 1925-1927.
Folder	4		Stoc-Stone, general. Correspondents include Chester Stock, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1943, 1945.
Folder	5		Stoddard, Herbert Lee, 1926, 1932, 1942-1945, 1948, 1951, 1957-1968, and undated. Mostly concerns Stoddard's research on the birds of Georgia.
Folders	6-8		Stone, Witmer, 1909, 1913-1931, and undated. Stone served in various positions at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia including Executive Curator, Director, and Vice President. For many years he was Editor of the AOU journal The Auk. Included is correspondence concerning the publication of Wetmore's research papers in The Auk, and various other AOU business, especially the work of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North American Birds.

Box 66 of 240

Folder	1		Stone, Witmer, 1932-1940. Much of the correspondence concerns the publication of Stone's Birds of Cape May.
Folder	2		Stoner, Dayton, 1919, 1925-1928, 1934-1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1952
Folder	3		Stono-Stou, general. Correspondents include Tracy I. Storer, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1927-1930, 1939, 1954, 1959, 1970; A. B. Stout, 1906, 1912, 1916, 1940, 1943, 1955.
Folder	4		Storer, Robert Winthrop, 1949-1975. Much of the correspondence concerns Storer's work as Editor of the AOU journal The Auk.
Folder	5		Str, general. Correspondents include Clark Perkins Streator, 1928, 1948-1949; J. Fletcher Street, 1926-1927, 1929, 1932-1933, 1936; Emerson Stringham, 1944, 1946-1948, 1950, 1952- 1953; Reuben Myron Strong, 1917-1920, 1925-1926, 1929, 1938, 1947.
Folder	6		Streeter, Daniel Denison, 1913, 1924, 1930, 1942, 1946-1949, 1952, 1966-1967, 1972-1973, and undated
Folder	7		Stresemann, Erwin, 1921, 1929, 1936-1941, 1945- 1952, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1972, and undated. Includes letters documenting the effect of World War II on German ornithologists.

Box 67 of 240

Folder	1		Stu-Sv, general
Folder	2		Stuart, George H., III, 1921, 1925, 1928-1929, 1931, 1934-1936, 1939-1940, 1942, and undated
Folder	3		Sushkin, Peter Petrovich, 1925-1928, 1939-1940, and undated. Included is biographical information on Sushkin.
Folders	4-5		Sutton, George Miksch, 1927-1929, 1937-1976, and undated
Folder	6		Sw, general
Folder	7		Swales, Bradshaw Hall, 1918-1920, 1926-1928, 1930, 1935, and undated. Swales was honorary Assistant Curator, Division of Birds, USNM, 1918-1928. Consists mostly of letters exchanged between Swales and Wetmore while the latter was on field trips for the U. S. Biological Survey. Many of the letters contain news of activities at the USNM and the Washington scientific scene. Of special interest is the letter of 23 July 1918 (Wetmore to Swales) which contains information on an offer to Wetmore to become Curator of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences. Correspondence post-dating Swales' death in 1928 is primarily with his wife.
Folder	8		Swales, Bradshaw Hall. Baseball library, 1928-1929. Concerns Wetmore's efforts to dispose of Swale's library and memorabilia relating to baseball.
Folder	9		Swann, Harry Kirke, 1922-1929, 1932, 1935, 1956. Mostly concerns Wetmore's work editing Swann's Monograph on the Accipitres.
Folder	10		Swarth, Harry Schelwald, 1915, 1919, 1924-1935

Box 68 of 240

Folder	1		Sy-Sz, general
Folder	2		Ta-Tc, general. Correspondents include Edward H. Taylor, 1944, 1952-1954, 1968, 1971.
Folder	3		Taber, Wendell, 1954-1955, 1958-1960. Most of the correspondence concerns the completion of Arthur Cleveland Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds.
Folder	4		Taber, William Brewster, Jr., 1926-1927, 1932
Folder	5		Taverner, Percy A., 1920, 1922-1923, 1926-1947. A Canadian ornithologist, Taverner maintained a constant correspondence with Wetmore. The letters document nomenclatural issues, AOU business, and professional affairs in the United States and Canada.
Folder	6		Taylor, Frank A., 1934-1943, 1946-1947. Correspondence concerning his duties as Curator, Division of Engineering, USNM.
Folder	7		Taylor, Walter P., 1927-1936, 1940-1945. Includes a photograph of Helmut K. Buechner, 1942.
Folder	8		Te, general
Folder	9		Teachenor, Dix, 1917, 1921-1922, 1924-1955, 1958, 1960
Folder	10		Terres, John K., 1946-1952, 1959-1963, 1966-1976. Includes correspondence concerning Terres' biographical sketch of Wetmore written for Audubon magazine, 1947-1948. Several of Wetmore's letters contain information on his life and career. Also included are letters concerning the preparation of Terres' Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
Folder	11		Terry, Robert A. and Mary E., 1941, 1945, 1948, 1953-1965

Box 69 of 240

Folder	1		Th, general. Correspondents include Edward S. Thomas, 1922-1924, 1926, 1948, 1954, 1959.
Folder	2		Thompson, Max C., 1956-1957, 1962, 1966, 1968-1972, 1974, and undated
Folder	3		Thomson, A. Landsborough, 1930-1931, 1936, 1938-1941, 1953-1954, 1959-1965, 1972. The correspondence of 1959-1964 concerns Wetmore's contributions to the New Dictionary of Birds published by the British Ornithologists Union.
Folder	4		Ti, general
Folder	5		Ticehurst, Claude Buchanan, 1931-1938
Folder	6		To, general. Correspondents include Frank S. Todd, 1967-1969, 1973 and Heloisa Alberto Torres, 1943-1944, 1948.
Folder	7		Todd, Walter Edmund Clyde, 1912, 1921-1950, 1953-1954, 1959. The correspondence of 1929 concerns an expedition to Venezuela by Ernest G. Holt.
Folder	8		Tordoff, Harrison B., 1950, 1952-1954, 1957, 1963
Folder	9		Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1916-1919, 1923, 1927, 1929-1930, 1935, and undated. Mostly concerns Wetmore's work on the birds collected by the Albatross expedition to the South Seas, 1899-1900.
Folder	10		Townsend, Charles Wendell, 1915, 1920, 1922, 1926-1931, and undated. Includes a stereopticon photograph of the Smithsonian Castle taken by T. W. Smillie, circa 1870.

Box 70 of 240

Folder	1		Tr, general. Correspondents include Harold Trapido, 1952, 1958, 1974; Milton Bernhard Trautman, 1948, 1954, 1963, 1965-1966, 1969, 1971-1973; Melvin A. Traylor, Jr., 1946, 1949, 1951, 1957, 1963-1964, 1968, 1973-1974; Edward L. Troxell, 1930-1932; Reginald Van Trump Truitt, 1933, 1936-1938, 1942-1943, 1945, 1947, 1950.
Folder	2		True, Webster P., 1921, 1926, 1929-1946. Correspondence regarding True's duties as Editor of the Smithsonian Institution.
Folder	3		Tu-Ty, general. Correspondents include B. W. Tucker, 1934, 1937, 1945 and W. Bryant Tyrrell, 1937, 1940, 1945-1950, 1952-1953, 1956, 1960.
Folder	4		U, general
Folder	5		Udagawa, Tatsuo, 1952, 1954-1956, 1960, 1963, 1967
Folder	6		Vadilo, P. S., 1970
Folders	7-8		Vaiden, Merritt Gordon, 1939-1940, 1943-1973. Correspondence mostly concerning Vaiden's work collecting birds in Mississippi and Wetmore's assistance in identifying the specimens.

Box 71 of 240

Folder	1		Val-Van, general. Correspondents include Victor van Straelen, 1945-1948, 1952, 1959.
Folder	2		Van Hyning, T., 1926, 1928-1930, 1934, 1938-1946, and undated
Folders	3-4		van Rossem, Adriaan Joseph, 1908, 1913, 1924-1949, 1953. van Rossem, an ornithologist at the California Institute of Technology, was in frequent correspondence with Wetmore. Included are letters documenting van Rossem's work on the birds of El Salvador, and the Donald R. Dickey vertebrate zoology collections.
Folders	5-7		Van Tyne, Josselyn, 1929-1936, 1939-1959, 1968. Van Tyne, a prominent ornithologist, spent his entire career at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. His correspondence with Wetmore concerns the AOU; zoological nomenclature; and the preparation of research publications.

Box 72 of 240

Folder	1		Var-Vau, general. Correspondents include T. Wayland Vaughan, 1926-1929, 1933-1934, 1936, 1947, 1950.
Folder	2		Vaurie, Charles and Patricia, 1950-1951, 1956-1969, 1973
Folder	3		Ve-Vi, general. Correspondents include Luis Felipe Vegas, 1941, 1947-1949, 1970-1971; Francisco Villagran, 1942-1944; Jack Vincent, 1964-1967, concerning the International Council for Bird Protection; A. E. Vinson, 1928, 1932, concerning George Fouche Freeman.
Folder	4		Victory, John F., 1950, 1952-1954, 1957. The correspondence concerns Victory's work on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Folder	5		Vo-Vu, general. Correspondents include Charles Taylor Vorhies, 1928-1929, 1934-1935.
Folder	6		Vogt, William, 1934-1936, 1940-1948, and undated
Folder	7		von Sneidern, Kjell, 1955-1956, 1958
Folder	8		Voous, Karel H., 1946-1947, 1950, 1953, 1955-1956, 1959, 1962, 1965-1966, 1969, 1971, 1973-1974
Folder	9		Wac-Wal, general. Correspondents include Joseph Sanford Wade, 1928, 1935-1937, 1942, 1945, 1949 and Sidney S. Walcott, 1929, 1952, 1966, 1969.
Folder	10		Walcott, Charles D., 1879, 1925, 1928, 1975. Includes a copy of a telegram from Clarence King to Robert P. Whitfield (26 June 1879) inquiring as to the suitability of Walcott as an assistant. Also included is a galley proof of a biographical sketch of Walcott by Ellis L. Yochelson.
Folder	11		Walcott, Frederic C., 1923, 1929-1933, 1941-1948. Consists mostly of correspondence concerning Walcott's service as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Folder	12		Walcott, Mary Vaux, 1927, 1929-1938, 1940, and undated

Box 73 of 240

Folder	1		Wald-Way, general. Correspondents include George J. Wallace, 1953-1955 and F. Prescott Ward, 1972-1975.
Folder	2		Walker, Egbert Hamilton, 1934-1935, 1937, 1942-1945. Correspondence concerning his work as Assistant Curator, Division of Plants, USNM.
Folder	3		Warner, Worcester R., 1929. Correspondence concerning Warner's jade collection.
Folder	4		Warren, Edward R., 1910, 1912, 1914-1918, 1920, 1922, 1926, 1928-1929, 1933-1937, 1939, and undated
Folder	5		Wea-Web, general. Correspondents include Jay A. Weber, 1919, 1924, 1944, 1950, 1967-1969, concerning his bird collecting in Panama.
Folder	6		Weber, Walter A., 1944-1945, 1955-1956, 1959-1961, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, and undated
Folder	7		Webster, J. Dan, 1957, 1959-1960, 1970
Folder	8		Wee-Weth, general
Folder	9		Weems, Robert E., 1963-1964, 1968
Folder	10		Weiss, Paul, 1951-1952, 1954-1955, 1957
Folder	11		West, Philip S., 1973-1975. Mostly concerns his research on the birds of Panama.

Box 74 of 240

Folder	1		Wetm-Wh, general. Correspondents include Hugh Whistler, 1926, 1941, 1945; Alvin G. Whitney, 1929-1930, 1943-1944, 1946, 1948; Charles L. Whittle, 1929, 1932, 1934-1935.
Folder	2		Wic-Wilk, general. Correspondents include Otto Widman, 1908-1909, 1917, 1923, 1927, 1931, and undated.
Folder	3		Wilding, Anthony W., 1943-1948. Correspondence concerning Wilding's duties as Property Officer, Smithsonian Institution.
Folder	4		Wilhelm, Eugene J., Jr., 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963-1964, 1966, 1968
Folder	5		Will, general. Correspondents include Lovett E. Williams, 1966-1970; Robert White Williams, 1915-1916, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929-1931, 1935; Edwin O'Neill Willis, 1957, 1970, 1972.
Folder	6		Wils-Wix, general. Correspondents include Leonard W. Wing, 1932-1934, 1940-1941, 1943-1944, 1947-1949, 1958.
Folder	7		Wilson, Lady Hester, 1945-1946, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1966, and undated
Folder	8		Wingate, David B., 1960-1966, 1973, and undated. Mostly concerns Wingate's research on birds of the West Indies.
Folder	9		Winterbottom, J. M., 1960-1961, 1966-1968, 1973
Folder	10		Wirkus, Faustin E., 1932, 1935, 1940-1942, 1945, 1952. The correspondence of 1932 concerns Wirkus' work collecting iguanas for the USNM in Haiti.
Folder	11		Witherby, H. F., 1926, 1930-1932, 1934, 1936, 1938-1942, 1944. The correspondence of 1930-1932 concerns Wetmore's field work in Spain.
Folder	12		Wobus, Ulrich, 1961
Folder	13		Wodzicki, Kazimierz A., 1940, 1944, 1951, 1956-1960, 1963, 1970, 1972, 1974, and undated

Box 75 of 240

Folder	1		Wol-Woo, general
Folder	2		Wolcott, George N., 1927-1929, 1932, 1937, 1941-1944, 1948-1949, 1952. Correspondence concerning Wolcott's field research in Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Peru.
Folder	3		Wolfe, Lloyd R., 1935, 1945, 1947, 1952, 1955-1956, 1959-1970. Mostly concerns Wolfe's research on vultures.
Folder	4		Wolfson, Albert, 1949-1961. Much of the correspondence concerns Wolfson's activities as an officer of the AOU.
Folders	5-7		Wood, Casey Albert, 1915-1943, and undated. A professional ophthalmologist, Wood also conducted ornithological research, especially on the eyes and eyesight of birds. The correspondence documents his ornithological research; the publication of his scientific monographs; and his world-wide travels, including trips to British Guiana, 1922, the Fiji Islands, 1923, India and Ceylon, 1925-1926, and Europe, 1930-1939.
Folder	8		Woolfenden, Glen E., 1956, 1958, 1960-1961, 1968-1969
Folder	9		Wor-Wy, general. Correspondents include Albert Hazen Wright, 1932, 1934-1935, 1943, 1959 and V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 1935, 1948-1949, 1953.

Box 76 of 240

Folder	1		Y, general. Correspondents include John P. Young, 1917-1921, 1926, 1928, 1933, 1941; Helen Walcott Younger, 1930, 1940-1941, 1945-1946, 1948-1949, 1953-1954, 1961, including letters containing information on Charles D. and Mary Vaux Walcott; Conrad E. Yunker, 1962-1964; 1968-1970.
Folder	2		Z, general. Correspondents include Rainer Zangerl, 1937, 1944-1945, 1960-1962 and Angel R. Zotta, 1939, 1942-1943, 1945-1946.
Folder	3		Zetek, James, 1928, 1936, 1946, 1948, 1953-1957, and undated. Correspondence primarily concerning the operation of the Canal Zone Biological Area.
Folder	4		Zimmer, John T., 1928-1929, 1934, 1936-1938, 1941, 1943-1954. Includes correspondence concerning Zimmer's work as editor of The Auk.
Folder	5		Zimmerman, Dale A., 1958-1959
Folder	6		Zimmerman, William F., 1957-1963
Folder	7		Zinser, Juan, 1938-1944, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's field work in Mexico, 1938.
Folder	8		Unidentified correspondence

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

This series consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, publications, and related materials documenting Alexander Wetmore's extensive involvement in national and international scientific affairs.

Included are records concerning his membership in and service to domestic and foreign scientific societies, ornithological groups, conservation organizations, and social groups; his participation at national and international scientific congresses and meetings; his work on inter-governmental committees; his service as United States representative to international conservation groups; and his relations with museums, colleges and universities, government agencies, and publishers.

Also included are records concerning awards and honorary degrees received by Wetmore.

Researchers interested in Wetmore's activities in professional organizations should also consult series 1, general correspondence.

Arranged Alphabetically

Box 77 of 240

Folder	1		A, general
Folder	2		Acacia Fraternity, University of Kansas Chapter, 1919-1920, 1922, 1929-1931, 1937, 1939-1942, 1945, 1947-1948, 1952, and undated
Folder	3		Academia Columbiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales (Bogata, Colombia), 1956-1959, 1970
Folder	4		Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales (Caracas, Venezuela), 1971
Folder	5		Academy of Medicine of Washington, D. C., 1946-1952, 1961, 1965-1966, 1971-1975, and undated
Folder	6		Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1927, 1939, 1971, 1973. Correspondents include James Abram Garfield Rehn.
Folder	7		Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Leidy Medal, 1939-1940. Concerns Wetmore's service as a member of the committee to select the recipient of the medal. Correspondents include Elmer Drew Merrill and Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader.
Folder	8		American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1917, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1932-1933, 1947-1948, 1957-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1974, and undated
Folders	9-11		American Association of Museums, 1925, 1928-1976. Correspondence, minutes, and printed materials relating to Wetmore's service as a Council Member of the AAM. Correspondents include Laurence Vail Coleman.

Box 78 of 240

Folders	1-5		American Committee for International Wild Life Protection. Correspondence, 1930-1955, 1958, 1965-1970, and undated. Correspondence documenting Wetmore's work as a member of the ACIWLP Advisory Board, Executive Committee, and Pan American Committee. Frequent correspondents include Harold Jefferson Coolidge, W. Reid Blair, Jean Theodore Delacour, and Lee S. Crandall.
Folder	6		________________. Correspondence concerning a proposed volume on extinct and vanishing fishes, 1945. Correspondents include George Sprague Myers and Childs Frick.

Box 79 of 240

Folders	1-2		American Committee for International Wild Life Protection. Galapagos Committee, 1933-1938, 1943. Correspondents include Robert Thomas Moore and Harold Jefferson Coolidge.
Folders	3-5		________________. Minutes and reports, 1930-1952.
Folders	6-7		________________. Publications, 1930-1940, and undated. Includes articles concerning the history and organization of the ACIWLP, and special publications of the group.

Box 80 of 240

Folder	1		American Council of Learned Societies, 1942
Folder	2		American Geographical Society, 1954-1955, 1958-1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, and undated. Includes a biographical sketch of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor by Wetmore.
Folder	3		American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1950, 1952, 1960. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on a panel of appraisers for the AIBS Handbook of Biological Data.
Folder	4		American Museum of Natural History, 1955-1959, 1968-1969, 1975, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's participation on a committee to select a chairman for the Department of Birds, AMNH, 1955. Correspondents include George Gaylord Simpson.
Folder	5		_________________. Childs Frick Collection, 1948-1949, 1957-1960, 1964, 1971-1972. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's research on the collection of fossil birds. Correspondents include Childs Frick and Harold E. Anthony.
Folder	6		American Ornithologists' Union. The Auk, 1907-1908, 1920, 1965, 1968-1969, 1971-1974.
Folder	7		_________________. The Auk, editorship, 1936, 1942. Correspondence concerning the selection of an editor of in 1936 and 1942. Correspondents include Witmer Stone, Arthur Cleveland Bent, and James Paul Chapin.
Folder	8		_________________. The Auk, Recent Literature Section, 1962-1974. Correspondence mostly concerning submissions by Wetmore.
Folder	9		_________________. Brewster Award, 1937, 1958-1962, 1964, 1970, and undated. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on the Committee on the Brewster Memorial Award, including his tenures as Chairman in 1937 and 1962. Correspondents include Austin Loomer Rand, Joseph James Hickey, and George Hines Lowery, Jr.
Folder	10		_________________. By-laws and rules, 1915, 1927, 1943, 1948, 1958-1959, 1971, 1974.
Folder	11		American Ornithologists' Union. Checklist of North American Birds, fourth edition, 1925-1926. Wetmore, along with W. deWitt Miller, served as a subcommittee to draft a classification for the checklist. This material primarily consists of drafts of and notes on the proposed classification. See also under Waldron deWitt Miller, series 1, box 42, folder 4.

Box 81 of 240

Folder	1		American Ornithologists' Union. Checklist of North American Birds, fourth edition, 1925-1926.
Folder	2		_________________. Checklist of North American Birds, fifth edition, 1947.
Folder	3		_________________. Committee on Bird Protection, 1953.
Folder	4		_________________. Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North American Birds, 1919, 1924, 1926-1927, 1931, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1951, 1963, and undated. Correspondence documenting Wetmore's work as a member and chairman of the committee, 1927-1957. Much of the correspondence concerns the publication of the AOU Checklist of North American Birds.
Folder	5		_________________. Committee on Endowment, 1939-1941, 1943, 1960-1964, 1966, 1968, 1970-1971. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as a member and Chairman of the Committee.
Folder	6		_________________. Committees, general, 1961-1962.
Folder	7		_________________. Elliott Coues Award, 1972. Consists of a letter from Richard Charles Banks notifying Wetmore that he had been selected as the first recipient of the award.
Folder	8		_________________. Council, 1950, 1959-1960, 1965, 1970-1971, 1974-1976.
Folder	9		_________________. Fellows and elective members, 1960, 1963, 1974.
Folder	10		American Ornithologists' Union. General correspondence, 1925, 1927, 1962, 1966-1968. Frequent correspondents include Josselyn Van Tyne and Harold Ford Mayfield.

Box 82 of 240

Folder	1		American Ornithologists' Union. Handbook of North American Birds, 1951, 1953, 1960. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on the Handbook publishing committee.
Folder	2		_________________. Historical records, 1955, 1957, 1965, 1974.
Folder	3		_________________. Annual meeting, 1975.
Folder	4		_________________. Annual meeting, 1976.
Folder	5		_________________. Meetings, general, 1914-1931, 1934, 1938, 1968, 1974, and undated. Consists of programs, agendas, exhibition catalogs, and memorabilia.
Folder	6		_________________. Membership, 1901-1902, 1908, 1912, 1919, 1947, and undated.
Folder	7		_________________. Memorabilia, 1921, 1925-1927, 1974.
Folder	8		_________________. Publications Committee, 1963-1965. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's participation as a member of the committee.
Folder	9		American Pheasant Society, 1940, 1945-1947
Folder	10		American Philosophical Society. General correspondence, 1930-1931, 1936-1939, 1944, 1953-1963, 1967-1968, 1970-1977, and undated.
Folder	11		_________________. Committee on Publications, 1951-1953, 1971. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's review of submitted publications.
Folder	12		_________________. Committee on Research, 1940, 1943-1944, 1946, 1949, 1952. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's review of grant applications.

Box 83 of 240

Folder	1		American Society of Mammalogists, 1919, 1925-1928, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1963, 1968. Of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to Donald F. Hoffmeister (26 August 1968) giving details of the ASM formation meetings in 1919.
Folder	2		Anteaters Association, 1962-1967
Folder	3		Arctic Institute of North America, 1952-1958. Correspondence mostly concerning Wetmore's service on the Grants-in-Aid Committee and the Research Committee.
Folder	4		Atomic Energy Commission, 1949, 1953
Folder	5		Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc., 1942-1969, 1972, and undated
Folder	6		B, general
Folder	7		Baird Ornithological Club, 1922, 1948
Folder	8		Biological Society of Washington, 1930, 1942, 1953, 1959-1960, 1965, 1968, 1970-1975, and undated

Box 84 of 240

Folders	1-3		Boone and Crockett Club, 1938-1942, 1947, 1953-1976
Folder	4		British Ornithologists' Club, 1967, 1969, 1971
Folder	5		British Ornithologists' Union, 1930, 1938, 1956-1963
Folder	6		British Trust for Ornithology, 1962-1963, 1966-1969, 1973
Folder	7		John Burroughs Association, 1961
Folder	8		C, general
Folder	9		California Academy of Sciences, 1929-1931, 1945- 1946, 1957-1959, 1965-1974. Mostly concerns the loan of study specimens to Wetmore. Correspondents include Laurence Charles Binford.
Folder	10		Central Intelligence Agency, 1947, 1949, 1951-1952, and undated

Box 85 of 240

Folder	1		Centre College, 1947-1949. Correspondence concerning the honorary D. Sc. degree awarded to Wetmore in 1947.
Folders	2-3		Children's Museum of Washington, 1943-1952, 1964. Includes correspondence concerning his service on the Board of Trustees.
Folder	4		Conference on Avifauna of Northern Latin America, 1965-1966
Folder	5		Congresso Cientifico General Chileno, 1944
Folders	6-7		Conservation Foundation, 1946-1952. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as a member of the Advisory Council. Correspondents include Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Folder	8		Cooper Ornithological Society, 1907, 1921, 1924-1932, 1936, 1947, 1951, 1956-1975
Folder	9		Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, 1955-1957, 1962, 1972, 1974-1975, and undated

Box 86 of 240

Folder	1		Cosmos Club. General correspondence, 1933, 1935-1951, 1967, 1970-1974, and undated. Includes correspondence documenting Wetmore's tenure as President, 1938, as well as his service on various committees.
Folder	2		___________. Advisory Committee of Eleven, 1932, 1938-1940, 1944-1945, 1948-1949, and undated.
Folder	3		___________. Annual reports, 1937-1938, 1944.
Folder	4		___________. Articles concerning the Club, 1964, 1973.
Folder	5		Cosmos Club. Awards, 1962-1969, 1973-1976. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on the Canvassing Committee to select recipients for awards.
Folder	6		___________. Board of Management, 1933, 1937-1941, 1945, 1949, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1974. Includes records documenting Wetmore's tenure as a member of the Board, 1933-1936, as well as his service as Vice President, 1937, and President, 1938.
Folder	7		___________. Budget Committee, 1934, 1938-1939.
Folder	8		___________. Building-Finance and Construction Committee, 1944, 1948.
Folder	9		___________. By-laws, 1938, 1973.
Folders	10-11		___________. Committee on Admissions, 1925-1948, and undated. Correspondence concerning the nomination of candidates for admission.

Box 87 of 240

Folder	1		Cosmos Club. Committee on Admissions, 1949-1974, and undated.
Folder	2		___________. Committee to Promote Membership, 1938.
Folder	3		___________. Employees, 1938, and undated.
Folder	4		___________. Finance Committee, 1939-1943, and undated. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as a member, and later, as chairman of the committee.
Folder	5		___________. Financial statements, 1938-1939, 1968.
Folder	6		___________. House Committee, 1933, 1937-1940, 1946, 1952, 1973-1974.
Folder	7		___________. Special Committee on Admissions Policies and Procedures, 1947, 1949, 1953-1954, and undated.
Folder	8		D, general
Folder	9		Darling National Wildlife Refuge, 1967, 1974, 1976

Box 88 of 240

Folder	1		E, general
Folders	2-3		Eighth American Scientific Congress, 1940. General correspondence, 1939-1948. Wetmore served as Secretary-General, as well as a United States Delegate, to the Congress which was held in Washington, D. C., in May, 1940. This correspondence primarily concerns the publication and distribution of the proceedings of the Congress.
Folder	4		_________________. Finances, 1940, 1942-1944.
Folder	5		_________________. Invitations, 1938-1939.
Folder	6		_________________. Local arrangement, 1939.
Folder	7		_________________. Miscellaneous, 1939-1940.
Folder	8		_________________. Organizing Committee, 1939-1940.
Folder	9		_________________. Presidential address, 1940. Copy of Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech to the Congress in Spanish.
Folder	10		_________________. Section on Agriculture and Conservation, 1939-1941.
Folder	11		_________________. Section on Anthropological Sciences, 1939-1941. Correspondents include Herbert J. Spinden.
Folder	12		_________________. Section on Biological Sciences, 1939-1942. Correspondents include Edwin Grant Conklin and James Abram Garfield Rehn.
Folder	13		_________________. Section on Economics and Sociology, 1939.
Folder	14		_________________. Section on Education, 1939.
Folder	15		_________________. Section on Geological Sciences, 1939, 1943-1944.
Folder	16		Eighth American Scientific Congress. Section on History and Geography, 1940.
Folder	17		_________________. Section on International Law, Public Law, and Jurisprudence, 1939.
Folder	18		_________________. Section on Physical and Chemical Sciences, 1939-1940.
Folder	19		_________________. Section on Public Health and Medicine, 1939-1941, 1943.

Box 89 of 240

Folder	1		Emergency Conservation Committee, 1931-1936
Folders	2-3		Encyclopedia Britannica, 1927-1929, 1939, 1944-1948, 1956-1963, 1967-1970. Correspondence mostly concerning the preparation of articles on ornithology by Wetmore. Correspondents include Frank Michler Chapman and Julian S. Huxley.
Folder	4		Ends of the Earth Club, 1935, 1938-1943, 1946, 1948, 1952, 1957
Folders	5-6		Everglades National Park Association, 1928-1937, 1942-1944, 1947. Reports, correspondence, and publications documenting the effort to have the Everglades designated a National Park. Correspondents include Ernest F. Coe.

Box 90 of 240

Folders	1-4		Explorers Club. General correspondence, 1929, 1932, 1936-1975, and undated. Wetmore became a member of the Explorers Club in 1927, and served as its President from 1944 to 1946. He was also a member of various committees. This correspondence documents Wetmore's service to the Club and many of its activities. Frequent correspondents include Horace Marden Albright, Carlin L. Brinkley, the Chief of Clannfhearghuis, James Paul Chapin, Wendell Phillips Dodge, Serge Alexander Korff, Ward Randol, Joseph Robinson, Erich M. Schlaikjer, Daniel D. Streeter, Harry S. Talley, John Tee-Van, Lowell Thomas, Donald B. Upham, and Edward M. Weyer, Jr. Of special interest is correspondence concerning a controversy involving the Chief of Clannfhearghuis, Wetmore, and Richard O. Marsh, 1949
Folder	5		Explorers Club. Annual dinners, 1937-1939, 1943-1944.
Folder	6		______________. Board of Directors, 1931-1932, 1942, 1944-1948, 1950, 1952, 1975.
Folder	7		______________. By-laws, 1933, 1969.
Folder	8		______________. Endowment fund, undated.

Box 91 of 240

Folder	1		Explorers Club. Exploration Fund Committee, 1952-1964.
Folder	2		______________. Explorers Holding Corporation, 1928, 1930-1932. Correspondents include Arthur Cleveland Bent.
Folder	3		______________. Explorers Journal, 1931, 1959, 1961-1962.
Folder	4		______________. Financial reports, 1961, 1972.
Folder	5		______________. Flag, 1943-1950, 1962-1964, 1975. Correspondence primarily concerning requests by Wetmore to carry the Explorers Club flag on field expeditions.
Folder	6		______________. Grolier Society, 1948-1951.
Folder	7		______________. Library Committee, 1929, 1935, 1943-1946.
Folder	8		______________. Medal, 1962, 1967, 1973-1974. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's selection as recipient of the medal in 1962.
Folders	9-10		______________. Membership, 1928-1957, 1960-1964, 1967, 1970-1976. Correspondence mostly concerning the nomination of new members. Correspondents include Herbert Ferlando Schwarz.
Folder	11		______________. News clippings and brochures, 1929, 1935, 1944, 1954, and undated.
Folder	12		Explorers Club. Science Committee, 1942-1943, 1945, 1949, 1952-1954, 1958-1959, 1962-1964, 1973. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as a member and chairman of the committee.
Folder	13		______________. Washington Group, 1938-1946, 1950-1951, 1961, 1968, 1972, 1975, and undated. Correspondents include Herford Tynes Cowling.
Folder	14		______________. World Center for Exploration, 1965, 1967-1969.

Box 92 of 240

Folder	1		F, general
Folder	2		Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, 1959-1961. Correspondents include Cecily Niven.
Folder	3		Florida Audubon Society, 1954, 1957-1966, 1969-1974. Correspondents include C. Russell Mason.
Folder	4		Friends of the National Zoo, 1959, 1965-1968
Folder	5		G, general
Folders	6-7		Galapagos Islands Biological Laboratory, 1941-1942. Correspondence concerning the proposed establishment of a Smithsonian laboratory on the Islands. The project was canceled due to World War II. Included are several letters documenting reconnaissance trips to the Galapagos by Waldo LaSalle Schmitt.
Folder	8		General Council on Zoological Nomenclature, 1942-1943. Correspondence concerning the establishment of an American group to replace the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature while it was not functioning during World War II. Correspondents include Wilfred Hudson Osgood.

Box 93 of 240

Folder	1		Geological Society of America, 1933, 1941-1942, 1946
Folders	2-6		George Washington University, 1932, 1944-1950. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's selection to receive the honorary Doctor of Science degree; his service on the Board of Trustees, 1945-1962 (service from 1951 to 1962 is in box 94); his selection as the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, 1945; and his work on various committees.

Box 94 of 240

Folders	1-5		George Washington University, 1951-1962, 1967-1970, 1974-1976. Similar correspondence as found in box 93.
Folder	6		Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. General correspondence, 1944, 1947-1959. This correspondence, and records found in boxes 95 and 96, documents Wetmore's service on the Executive Committee, 1949-1973, as well as various other committees. Correspondents include Joseph F. Siler and Herbert C. Clark.

Box 95 of 240

Folders	1-3		Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. General correspondence, 1960-1976. Correspondents include Martin D. Young.
Folder	4		_________________. Advisory Scientific Board, 1972.
Folder	5		_________________. Annual reports, 1929-1934, 1936-1943, 1945-1947, 1950, 1952-1958, 1960, 1964, 1966-1968.

Box 96 of 240

Folder	1		Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. Annual reports, 1970, 1972-1973, 1975.
Folder	2		_________________. Certificate of Incorporation and by-laws, 1954, 1964, 1969, 1973.
Folder	3		_________________. Contracts, 1953, 1973.
Folder	4		Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. History/Organization, 1925, 1950, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1973, and undated.
Folder	5		_________________. Legislation, 1928, 1948, 1953-1954, 1957-1959, 1969.
Folder	6		_________________. Personnel, 1952-1953, 1955, 1957-1958, 1960, 1973.
Folder	7		_________________. Regional Medical Library, 1967, 1971, 1973.
Folder	8		_________________. Research projects, 1950, 1958-1962, 1964, 1970, 1973.

Box 97 of 240

Folder	1		Grzimeks Tierleben, 1966-1970. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's preparation of an article on the family Dulidae for the German zoological encyclopedia.
Folders	2-5		Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon, 1925-1950, and undated. This correspondence documents Wetmore's work as a member and Chairman of the Committee of Selection for Latin American Fellowships. Correspondents include Henry Allen Moe, Henri Pittier, William Wilson Popenoe, Alexander F. Skutch, and George Sprague Myers.

Box 98 of 240

Folders

1-4

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon, 1951-1963, 1969, 1971. Correspondents include Henry Allen Moe and James F. Mathias.

Box 99 of 240

Folder	1		H, general
Folder	2		I, general
Folder	3		Institute for Aleutian Research, 1949
Folder	4		Inter-American Committee of Experts on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation. Advisory Committee to U. S. Representative, 1939-1940. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's role as United States Representative on the IACENP and his work drafting the "Inter-American Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere."
Folder	5		_________________. Correspondence with Harold Jefferson Coolidge, 1939-1940.
Folder	6		_________________. First Secretary of Ecuador, 1940.
Folder	7		_________________. Pan American Union, 1939-1946. Correspondents include J. L. Colum.
Folders	8-9		_________________. United States Department of State, 1933, 1935-1942.
Folder	10		_________________. Minutes and notes, 1939-1942.

Box 100 of 240

Folders	1-3		Inter-American Committee of Experts on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation. Reports, 1937-1942.
Folder	4		Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, 1938
Folders	5-6		Inter-American Conference on the Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources, 1946-1949. Correspondence documenting Wetmore's service on the Organizing Committee of the conference which was held in Denver, September 1948.

Box 101 of 240

Folders	1-2		Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Research and Development, 1947-1952. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as Chairman of the Committee, 1947-1948.
Folder	3		International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1926-1927, 1940, 1942-1944, 1946-1950, 1953, 1956-1963, 1972-1973. Correspondents include Francis Hemming.
Folder	4		International Committee for Bird Preservation, 1943-1947, 1950. Correspondence concerning his service as Chairman of the American Section of the Committee. Correspondents include Thomas Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore Delacour.
Folder	5		International Committee for Ornithological Nomenclature, 1934. Correspondents include Erwin Stresemann.
Folder	6		Xth International Congress of Zoology, Budapest, 1927
Folder	7		XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington, D. C., 1963. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's duties as Treasurer.
Folder	8		International Game Fish Association, 1944, 1949, 1952
Folder	9		VII International Ornithological Congress, Amsterdam (1930), 1929, 1932
Folder	10		VIII International Ornithological Congress, Oxford (1934), 1934. Correspondence concerning his work as United States delegate.
Folder	11		IX International Ornithological Congress, Rouen, France (1938), 1937-1939. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's duties as Chairman of the American delegation. Correspondents include Jean Theodore Delacour and Thomas Gilbert Pearson.
Folder	12		X International Ornithological Congress (post poned). This Congress was planned to be con vened in Philadelphia in 1942 with Wetmore as President. The Congress was postponed due to World War II. Correspondents include Thomas Barbour, Jean Theodore Delacour, and Ludlow Griscom.

Box 102 of 240

Folders	1-2		X International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, Sweden (1950), 1946-1950. Correspondence documenting Wetmore's work as President of the Congress and Chairman of the United States delegation. Correspondents include Jean Theodore Delacour and Sven Horstadius.
Folder	3		XI International Ornithological Congress, Basel, Switzerland (1954), 1953-1954
Folder	4		XII International Ornithological Congress, Helsinki, Finland (1958), 1960
Folder	5		XIII International Ornithological Congress, Ithaca, NY (1962), 1958-1962, 1964. Correspondents include Charles Gald Sibley.
Folder	6		XIV International Ornithological Congress, Oxford (1966), 1965-1966
Folder	7		XV International Ornithological Congress, Amsterdam (1970), 1967
Folder	8		XVI International Ornithological Congress, Canberra, Australia (1974), 1971-1974
Folder	9		International Union of Biological Sciences, 1955-1956
Folder	10		International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 1938-1939

Box 103 of 240

Folder	1		J, general
Folder	2		Thomas Jefferson Bicentenary, 1943-1944. Correspondence documenting Wetmore's membership on the National Jefferson Bicentenary Committee, representing the American Philosophical Society.
Folder	3		Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1944, 1947. Correspondence documenting his service on the Jewish Museum Advisory Committee.
Folder	4		Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, 1945-1947
Folder	5		Joint Research and Development Board, 1946-1952. Correspondence primarily concerning Wetmore's activities as a member of the Committee on Geographical Exploration, 1946-1948, and the Committee on Geophysics and Geography, 1948-1952.
Folder	6		K, general
Folder	7		Kansas Academy of Science, 1936-1937, 1945, 1975
Folder	8		Kansas Ornithological Society, 1949-1950, 1959-1960, 1965, 1968-1969, 1974-1975
Folders	9-10		Kansas, University of, 1926, 1930-1931, 1935-1952, 1955, 1963-1964, 1967, 1971-1972, 1974, 1976
Folder	11		L, general

Box 104 of 240

Folder	1		La Jauga Hunting Club, 1960, 1969
Folder	2		Library of Congress, 1954, 1956. Correspondence concerning the solicitation of Wetmore's personal papers in 1954.
Folder	3		Linnaean Society of New York, 1932, 1948, 1954, 1957, 1972-1974
Folder	4		Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 1941-1942, 1945-1946, 1971-1972
Folder	5		M, general
Folder	6		Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1930-1937, 1951
Folder	7		Maryland Ornithological Society, 1948-1951, 1954, 1956, and undated
Folder	8		McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958-1961, 1965, 1967-1969, 1971. Correspondence mostly concerning Wetmore's preparation of an article on fossil birds for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Folder	9		Middle America Research Unit, 1961-1962. Includes correspondence of Conrad E. Yunker.
Folder	10		Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1946-1947, 1954-1959, 1961. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on the Committee of the Overseers to Visit the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1947-1961.
Folder	11		Na, general

Box 105 of 240

Folders	1-3		National Academy of Sciences. General correspondence, 1930-1932, 1940, 1944-1952, 1954, 1957-1964, 1967-1976. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's tenure as NAS Home Secretary, 1951-1955, and his service as a member of various committees.
Folder	4		_________________. Audubon Elephant Folios, 1946, 1962, 1968, 1970-1971, and undated.
Folder	5		_________________. Awards, fellowships, and grants, 1928, 1933, 1935, 1945-1948, 1952, 1955, 1957-1961, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1975.
Folder	6		_________________. Centennial, 1963.
Folder	7		_________________. Conference on the Antarctic (September 1948), 1948-1949.
Folder	8		_________________. Constitution and by-laws, 1959-1960, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1973, 1975-1976.
Folder	9		_________________. Foreign Secretary, 1975.
Folder	10		_________________. Membership records, 1946-1948, 1950, 1964, 1967-1970, 1973-1974.

Box 106 of 240

Folder	1		National Academy of Sciences. Membership records, 1975-1976.
Folder	2		_________________. Publications, 1952, 1971.
Folder	3		_________________. Section of Applied Biology, 1963-1966.
Folders	4-7		National Academy of Sciences. Section of Zoology (before 1968, known as the Section of Zoology and Anatomy), 1946, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1964-1975.
Folder	8		_________________. Treasurer's report, 1975.

Box 107 of 240

Folders

1-7

National Association of Audubon Societies, 1927, 1929-1940, and undated. Created in 1904 "for the protection of wild birds and animals," the Association's name was changed to the National Audubon Society in 1940. Much of the correspondence relates to Wetmore's work on the Board of Directors, 1929-1935. Correspondents include Thomas Gilbert Pearson, John H. Bailey, Frank Michler Chapman, and Robert Cushman Murphy. See box 108, Folders 1-2 for correspondence concerning the National Audubon Society.

Box 108 of 240

Folders	1-2		National Audubon Society, 1941-1959, 1964-1965, 1968-1970, 1973, and undated. Correspondents include T. Gilbert Pearson, John K. Terres, and John H. Baker.
Folder	3		National Capital Canary Club, 1949
Folder	4		National Firearms Act, 1934-1936
Folders	5-7		National Geographic Society. Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, 1933-1969, 1972-1976, and undated. Wetmore served as a Life Trustee, 1933-1976, and as a member of the Executive Committee, 1937-1976. These records document his activities in both capacities.
Folder	8		________________. The Book of Birds, 1937-1938, 1957, 1959.
Folder	9		________________. Committee for Research and Exploration, 1947, 1950-1952, 1955, 1959-1960, 1963-1965. Correspondence, research proposals, research and annual reports, minutes of meetings, and related materials documenting Wetmore's service as Vice Chairman, Acting Chairman, and Chairman Emeritus, 1937-1978.

Box 109 of 240

Folders

1-6

National Geographic Society. Committee for Research and Exploration, 1966-1974.

Box 110 of 240

Folder	1		National Geographic Society. Committee for Research and Exploration, 1975-1976.
Folder	2		_________________. Committee lists, 1947, 1952, and undated.
Folder	3		_________________. Correspondence with Leo A. Borah, 1937-1939.
Folders	4-5		_________________. Correspondence with Franklin L. Fisher, 1925, 1931-1953.
Folders	6-8		_________________. Correspondence with Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 1925-1956, 1966.
Folder	9		_________________. Correspondence with Melville Bell Grosvenor, 1935-1947, 1949, 1952-1958, 1961-1962, 1967-1968, 1970, 1974. Includes a copy of Grosvenor's remarks made at a dinner observing Wetmore's thirty-five years of service as a Trustee of the National Geographic Society, 28 June 1968.

Box 111 of 240

Folder	1		National Geographic Society. Correspondence with J. R. Hildebrand, 1937-1938, 1941, 1943-1944, 1946-1950.
Folder	2		_________________. Correspondence with Gerard Hubbard, 1934, 1936-1937.
Folder	3		_________________. Correspondence with George W. Hutchinson, 1936-1938, 1940, 1942-1945.
Folder	4		_________________. Correspondence with John Oliver LaGorce, 1933-1965.
Folder	5		_________________. Correspondence with Thomas W. McKnew, 1939-1954, 1963, 1965.
Folder	6		_________________. Correspondence with Frederick Simpich, 1933-1934, 1939-1940, 1942-1946, 1949.
Folder	7		National Geographic Society. Correspondence with Frederick G. Vosburgh, 1934, 1936-1937, 1940-1941, 1948-1970.
Folder	8		_________________. Correspondence with Helen J. Waldron, 1935-1944.
Folder	9		_________________. Correspondence with Walter A. Weber, 1937, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1967.
Folder	10		_________________. Miscellaneous correspondence with NGS staff, 1925, 1927-1929, 1934-1955.

Box 112 of 240

Folders	1-4		National Geographic Society. Miscellaneous correspondence with NGS staff, 1956-1976.
Folders	5-6		_________________. Correspondence with NGS members, A-N, 1932-1933, 1936-1947. Consists mostly of Wetmore's responses to questions concerning birds.

Box 113 of 240

Folder	1		National Geographic Society. Correspondence with NGS members, O-Y, 1936-1947, 1967.
Folder	2		_________________. Financial and membership reports, 1933-1944.
Folder	3		_________________. Invitations, 1926-1952, 1963-1964, 1967-1968, 1970.
Folder	4		_________________. Miscellany, 1935, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1964-1967, 1974, and undated.
Folder	5		_________________. Research projects - Arnhem Land Expedition, 1957, 1959-1960. Mostly concerns the publication of the report on fishes collected by the Expedition. Correspondents include Charles Pearcy Mountford. See also series 1, box 44, Folder 2 for related materials.
Folder	6		_________________. Research projects - Atlantis cruises, 1940, 1948.
Folder	7		National Geographic Society. Research projects - Biotelemetry research of Frank C. and John J. Craighead, 1961, 1963-1966, 1968.
Folder	8		_________________. Research projects - Calico Mountains (CA) Excavations, 1965-1968, 1971, and undated. Reports, articles, and correspondence concerning investigations of evidence of early man in California by Louis S. B. Leakey and others.
Folder	9		_________________. Research projects - California Condor, 1960, 1963-1964. Copies of re ports and correspondence documenting a joint project of NGS, the National Audubon Society, and the University of California to study the population and status of the bird.

Box 114 of 240

Folder	1		National Geographic Society. Research projects- Coral Reef Ecology, 1962-1963. Correspondence and related materials concerning Wetmore's participation on a NGS trip to inspect the University of Miami Marine Laboratory.
Folder	2		_________________. Research projects - Cosmic Radiation, 1947.
Folder	3		_________________. Research projects - Eclipse Expeditions, 1937, 1940-1941, 1944-1947, 1951. Copies of reports and correspondence documenting several NGS sponsored expeditions to study solar eclipses and auroral displays.
Folder	4		_________________. Research projects - Everglades National Park, 1963-1964, 1966-1967.
Folder	5		_________________. Research projects - Hippotragine Antelope Study, circa 1970.
Folder	6		_________________. Research projects - Olduvai Gorge, 1959-1961, 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1970. Correspondence, copies of correspondence, and reports concerning NGS supported excavations directed by Louis S. B. Leakey.
Folder	7		National Geographic Society. Research projects - Pueblo Bonito (NM) Archaeological Excavations, 1935, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961-1963. Correspondence concerning the publication of Neil M. Judd's reports on his field research at Pueblo Bonito.
Folder	8		_________________. Research Projects - Weherill Mesa, undated.
Folder	9		_________________. Song and Garden Birds and Water, Prey, and Game Birds, 1960, 1962-1974. Correspondence concerning the publication of the two books edited and co-authored by Wetmore. Also included is correspondence with readers of the volumes.

Box 115 of 240

Folder	1		National Photographic Society, 1958, 1960, 1963
Folder	2		National Science Foundation, 1953-1954, 1957-1963, 1969, 1973, 1976. Wetmore's reviews of research proposals.
Folder	3		National Speleological Society, 1941, 1943, 1946-1947, 1951, 1958-1962, 1967-1968, 1970-1971, 1974
Folder	4		Natural History Society of Maryland, 1934, 1936, 1951-1952
Folder	5		Ne-Nu, general
Folder	6		O, general
Folder	7		Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1941, 1945-1947. Correspondence concerning his work on the Council of Scientific Personnel.
Folder	8		P, general
Folder	9		Pacific Northwest Bird and Mammal Society, 1929-1930, 1936, 1944, 1951, 1954, 1960
Folder	10		The Paleontological Society, 1947, 1953, 1960-1964, 1969, 1972, 1974, and undated
Folders	11-12		Pan American Union, 1931, 1935-1940, 1943, 1946, 1953. Correspondents include Harold Jefferson Coolidge.

Box 116 of 240

Folder	1		Panama Audubon Society, 1968-1975
Folder	2		Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Inc., 1945-1949, 1956
Folder	3		Q, general
Folder	4		R, general
Folder	5		Raptor Research Foundation, 1967, 1969-1971, 1974-1975
Folder	6		Research and Development Board, 1949-1952
Folder	7		Ripon College, 1959-1960, 1964, 1966. Includes correspondence concerning the presentation of the honorary Doctor of Science degree to Wetmore in 1959.
Folder	8		Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1942, 1945, 1963. Includes correspondence concerning his election as a Fellow of the museum, 1945.
Folder	9		Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, 1921-1940, 1967-1969, 1975
Folder	10		S, general

Box 117 of 240

Folders	1-2		Science Service, 1927-1936, 1941-1952, 1964. Includes correspondence concerning his service on the Board of Trustees, 1946-1953.
Folder	3		Scientific Training Council, 1945
Folder	4		Scientific American, 1927, 1929, 1936, 1939-1940
Folder	5		Shenandoah National Park, 1936, 1949, 1952, 1959-1970, and undated. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's field research on the birds of the park.
Folders	6-7		Shenandoah Natural History Association, 1950-1952, 1955-1972, 1974, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on the Board of Directors.

Box 118 of 240

Folder	1		Sociedad de Ciencieas Naturales La Salle (Venezuela), 1955, 1959, 1971
Folder	2		Society for the Study of Evolution, 1946-1949
Folders	3-4		Society of the Sigma Xi, 1929-1940, 1943-1952, 1955-1957, 1959-1967, 1970, 1973-1974. Correspondence mostly concerning Wetmore's membership in the Washington, D. C. Chapter, including his service as President, 1933-1935.
Folder	5		Society of Systematic Zoology, 1948-1949, 1951, 1953-1954, 1957-1958, 1963, 1966, 1968, and undated
Folder	6		Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1941-1942, 1945, 1961-1962, 1964, 1970-1971, and undated
Folder	7		South African Ornithological Society, 1952-1953, 1955, 1959-1965, 1969, 1975, and undated. Correspondents include J. M. Winterbottom.
Folder	8		T, general
Folders	9-10		Textile Museum, 1928-1929, 1937, 1940, 1943-1965, 1968-1976, and undated. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's work as a member of the Board of Trustees, 1928-1952.

Box 119 of 240

Folder	1		U, general
Folder	2		United States Department of the Interior, 1937, 1941-1942, 1944-1946
Folder	3		United States Department of State. Costa Rica-United States cooperative rubber investigations, 1941.
Folder	4		_________________. Inter-American Cooperation, 1941-1943. Box 119 (cont'd)
Folder	5		United States Department of State. International Conservation Policy, 1944-1945.
Folder	6		United States War Department, 1925, 1941
Folder	7		V, general
Folders	8-9		Virginia Society of Ornithology, 1935, 1940, 1950-1951, 1954, 1958, 1960-1966, 1969-1973. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's service on various VSO committees. Also included is a photograph of Wetmore and Joseph James Murray in the field, 1965.
Folder	10		W, general

Box 120 of 240

Folders

1-4

Washington Academy of Sciences, 1920, 1926-1931, 1933, 1937-1964, 1967, 1969, 1971-1976. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's tenure as President in 1927, as well as his membership on various committees.

Box 121 of 240

Folders	1-4		Washington Biologists' Field Club, 1912, 1915-1977, and undated. Consists of records documenting Wetmore's sixty-three year membership in the club, including his tenure as President, 1928-1931, and his service on various committees.
Folder	5		Washington Canoe Club, 1952, 1957, 1963, and undated
Folder	6		Welder Wildlife Foundation, 1961, 1972, 1974. Includes correspondence concerning the donation of part of Wetmore's library to the Foundation. Correspondents include Clarence Cottam.
Folder	7		Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 1963-1967. Correspondents include Ed N. Harrison.

Box 122 of 240

Folders	1-4		Wheldon & Wesley, LTD. General correspondence, 1925-1948. Includes correspondence concerning Wetmore's work editing the Monograph on the Accipitres, by Harry Kirke Swann. See also series 1, box 67, Folder 9.
Folders	5-6		_________________. Book purchases, 1925-1952.

Box 123 of 240

Folder	1		The White House, 1926-1936, 1939, 1942, 1944-1945, 1947-1951. Correspondents include William D. Hassett.
Folders	2-3		Wilderness Club, 1925-1931, 1935-1942
Folder	4		Wildlife Management Institute, 1935, 1944-1952, 1961. Includes correspondence concerning his service on the Board of Advisory Trustees. Correspondents include Ira N. Gabrielson.
Folder	5		Wilson Ornithological Society, 1916, 1921, 1925-1927, 1932, 1934, 1949-1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970
Folder	6		Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1942-1943, 1946-1948, 1966, 1969-1976
Folder	7		Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, 1943, 1947-1949, 1957, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1970, 1976
Folder	8		Wisconsin, University of, 1946, 1948, 1951. Includes correspondence concerning the honorary D. Sc. degree awarded to Wetmore.
Folder	9		World Book Encyclopedia, 1945-1946, 1962-1963, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975. Correspondence concerning his work writing articles on oceanic birds.
Folder	10		Z, general

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

This series provides partial documentation of Alexander Wetmore's work as administrative head of the United States National Museum (USNM), 1925-1944, and the Smithsonian Institution, 1945-1952. Also included are records created by Wetmore after his retirement in 1952 that relate to Smithsonian bureaus and offices.

Most of the records consist of routine correspondence inquiring about employment at the USNM. Of particular importance are files concerning a proposed National Museum of History, 1926-1932; records concerning the selection of Wetmore's successor as Secretary, 1951-1952; and correspondence relating to the USNM Nomenclatural Discussion Group, 1946-1949.

Arranged Alphabetically

Box 124 of 240

Folder	1		Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 1970-1971, 1975
Folder	2		Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, 1943
Folder	3		Associates, Smithsonian, 1965-1966, 1968, 1970-1971, and undated
Folder	4		Cultural Cooperation Funds, 1942
Folder	5		Employment correspondence. Anthropology, 1927-1928, 1931-1933, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1943, and undated.
Folder	6		_________________. Art galleries, 1935, 1937, 1940.
Folder	7		_________________. Artists and illustrators, 1928, 1932, 1935, 1940-1942, 1945, and undated.
Folder	8		_________________. Botany, 1932, 1941-1944. Correspondents include Francis Raymond Fosberg.
Folder	9		_________________. Clerical, 1930-1931, 1933, 1936-1938, 1944, and undated.
Folder	10		_________________. Corals, 1934.
Folder	11		_________________. Editorial work, 1944, and undated.
Folder	12		_________________. Entomology, 1931, 1934, 1936, and undated.
Folder	13		_________________. Expeditions, 1926-1944, 1947, and undated. Correspondents include George Miksch Sutton.
Folder	14		_________________. General, 1925, 1928-1944, and undated.
Folder	15		_________________. Geology, 1931-1932, 1934, 1938, 1940.
Folder	16		_________________. Guards, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1941.
Folder	17		_________________. Herpetology, 1935, 1937, 1945-1946. Included is correspondence from and a photograph of Fred Ray Cagle.
Folder	18		_________________. Ichthyology, 1930-1932, 1935-1943, and undated. Correspondents include Walter Kenrick Fisher, Henry Bryant Bigelow, and Rolf Ling Bolin.
Folder	19		_________________. Mammalogy, 1930-1932, 1938, 1941.
Folder	20		_________________. Modeling, 1937, 1939, and undated.
Folder	21		_________________. Mollusks, 1931.
Folder	22		_________________. Ornithology, 1927-1946, and undated.
Folder	23		_________________. Preparators, 1927, 1935, 1937, and undated.
Folder	24		_________________. Taxidermy, 1928, 1931-1943, and undated.