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.
![]() 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.
1886 born in North Freedom, Wisconsin, 18 June 1900 wrote first
published paper, "My experience with a Red-headed Woodpecker," (Bird-Lore, vol.
II, pp. 155-156. 1905-1908, 1910 Assistant, University of Kansas Museum
1909 Assistant, Colorado Museum of Natural History 1910-1912
Agent, United States Bureau of Biological Survey 1910 field work,
Wyoming 1911 field work, Alaska 1911-1912 field work, Porto
Rico 1912 Bachelor of Science, University of Kansas 1912
married Fay Holloway, 13 October 1913-1923 Assistant Biologist, United
States Bureau of Biological Survey 1914 field work, Utah and California
1914-1915 field work, Utah and Montana 1916 Master of Science,
George Washington University 1916 birth of daughter, Margaret Fenwick
1916 field work, Utah 1916 Birds of Porto Rico (U.S. Dept.
Agric. Bull. 326, pp. 1-140) 1917 field work, North Carolina 1917-1918 field work, Arkansas and Texas 1918 field work, Western
United States 1919 field work, Florida; Arizona 1920 Doctor of
Philosophy, George Washington University 1920-1921 field work, South
America 1921 field work, Georgia 1922 field work, South
Carolina; Minnesota; North Dakota; Pennsylvania; Maryland 1923 in
charge of the Tanager Exploring Expedition to the mid-Pacific islands 1924 Biologist, U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey 1924-1925
Superintendent, National Zoological Park 1925-1944 Assistant Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution (in charge of the U.S. National Museum) 1926
Observations on the Birds of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile (U.S.
National Museum, Bull. 133, pp.1-448) 1926 The Migration of Birds
(Harvard University Press) 1926-1929 President, American
Ornithologists' Union 1927 field work, Haiti and Dominican Republic
1927 President, Washington Academy of Sciences 1927 Isidore
Geoffroy St. Hilaire Medal, Societe Nationale d'Acclimitation de France 1928 trip to study bird collections of museums in the western United States
1928-1931 President, Washington Biologists' Field Club 1928-1952 Trustee, Textile Museum of Washington 1929-1931 President,
Biological Society of Washington 1930 A Systematic Classification for
the Birds of the World (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 76, art. 24, pp. 1-8).
Revised and reprinted in 1934, 1940, 1948, 1951, and 1960. 1930 U.S.
Delegate, VII International Ornithological Congress, Amsterdam; field work,
Spain 1931 The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, by Wetmore
and B. H. Swales (U.S. National Museum Bull. 155, pp. 1-483) 1931
field work, Haiti 1931 Otto Herman Medal, Hungarian Ornithological
Society 1931-1957 Chairman, American Ornithologists' Union Committee on
Classification and Nomenclature of North American Birds 1932 Honorary
D.Sc., George Washington University 1932 field work, western United
States 1933-1976 Trustee, National Geographic Society 1934 U.S.
Delegate, VIII International Ornithological Congress, Oxford 1936 field
work, Guatemala 1937 Field work, Venezuela 1937-1978 Vice
Chairman, Acting Chairman, and Chairman Emeritus, Committee on Research and
Exploration, National Geographic Society 1938 President, Cosmos Club
1938 Chairman of U. S. delegation, IX International Ornithological
Congress, Rouen, France 1939 field work, Mexico 1940 A
Check-list of the fossil birds of North America (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 99,
no. 4, pp. 1-81) 1940 Secretary-General, Eighth American Scientific
Congress 1940 U. S. Representative, Inter-American Commission of
Experts on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation 1940 field
work, Costa Rica 1941 field work, Colombia 1941 Distinguished
Service Award, University of Kansas 1944-1946 President, Explorers Club
1944, 1946-1966 field work, Panama 1945 Alumni Award for
Achievement in Science, George Washington University 1945-1952
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1945-1952 Vice-Chairman, National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics 1945-1962 Trustee, George Washington
University 1946 Honorary D.Sc., University of Wisconsin 1947
Honorary D.Sc., Centre College of Kentucky 1947-1963 Chairman, Daniel
Giraud Elliot Fund Award Committee, National Academy of Sciences 1948
Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Research and Development
1948 Orden de Merito, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Cuba 1949-1976
Member, Board of Directors, Gorgas Memorial Institute for Tropical and
Preventive Medicine 1950 President, Academy of Medicine of Washington,
D. C. 1950 President, X International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala,
Sweden 1951-1955 Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences 1953 Death of Fay Holloway Wetmore, 14 February 1953 married Annie
Beatrice Thielen, 16 December 1953-1978 Research Associate, Smithsonian
Institution 1954 field work, Venezuela 1957 Hubbard Medal,
National Geographic Society 1959 Honorary D.Sc., Ripon College 1959 Brewster Medal, American Ornithologists' Union 1962 Explorers
Club Medal 1963 Treasurer, XVI International Congress of Zoology 1964 Bartsch Award, Audubon Naturalist Society 1965 The Birds of the
Republic of Panama, vol. 1 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pp. 1-483) 1968 The Birds of the Republic of Panama, vol. 2 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol.
150, pt. 2, pp. 1-605) 1969 field work, Netherlands Antilles 1970 Arthur Allen Medal, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology 1972 The
Birds of the Republic of Panama, vol. 3 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pt. 3,
pp. 1-631) 1972 Elliott Coues Award, American Ornithologists' Union
1973 "Alexander Wetmore Bridge" dedicated in Panama 1975-1978
Honorary President, American Ornithologists' Union 1976 Collected
Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore,
Storrs L. Olson, editor (Smiths. Contrib. to Paleobio., no. 27) 1978
death, Glen Echo, Maryland, 7 December 1984 The Birds of the Republic
of Panama, vol. 4 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pt. 4, pp. 1-670) The papers of Alexander Wetmore provide comprehensive documentation of his
professional career and personal life. The collection is especially valuable in
illustrating his research career in systematic ornithology and avian
paleontology; his many collecting trips and field expeditions; his involvement
in professional organizations, scientific societies, and social groups; his
education and the development of his interest in ornithology; his
administrative career at the United States National Museum (USNM) and the
Smithsonian Institution; his family history; and personal matters. Less well
represented in the collection is material concerning his brief tenure as
Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, 1924-1925. Interested
researchers should consult Smithsonian Archives Record Unit 74, National
Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1965, and undated. Wetmore was a
prolific correspondent and nearly a third of this collection is made up of
letters written and received between 1901 and 1977. The correspondence
documents most aspects of his career and is particularly valuable in
illustrating his research on recent and fossil birds. Wetmore exchanged
letters with many of the prominent ornithologists and avian paleontologists of
his day, and the correspondence is an important source of information on the
history of both disciplines during the twentieth century. It is also helpful in
documenting USNM and Smithsonian history from the mid-1920s to the early
1950s. Especially valuable are letters exchanged with USNM curators which
concern field work, research programs, and exhibits. Wetmore corresponded with
many foreign specialists, and several letters from British and European
ornithologists contain descriptions of World War II and its effects on society
and science. Also included are countless letters written by Wetmore giving
information and advice to amateur ornithologists, bird watchers, and
youngsters interested in birds. A large file of correspondence,
reports, fiscal records, publications, and related materials documents
Wetmore's constant involvement in professional activities and national and
international scientific affairs. His seventy-year membership in the American
Ornithologists' Union is thoroughly illustrated. Included are files concerning
Wetmore's work with the AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature, and
his role in the preparation of the fifth edition of the Check-list of North
American Birds. Also included are files concerning Wetmore's work as a
delegate and President of meetings of the International Ornithological
Congress. Records concerning his work as Secretary-General of the Eighth
American Scientific Congress, and as United States Representative to the
Inter-American Committee of Experts on Nature Protection and Wildlife
Preservation provide documentation of initial inter-American cooperation on
conservation issues. Also found are substantial records documenting his
associations with the National Geographic Society; the Gorgas Memorial
Institute for Tropical and Preventive Medicine; the Washington Biologists'
Field Club; the Cosmos Club; and the Explorers Club. Contained in a separate
series are records dealing with his work as Chairman of the National Academy
of Sciences Daniel Giraud Elliot Award Committee. Wetmore's work as a
field ornithologist and scientific expedition member is documented from his
first recorded observation of a Florida pelican in 1894 through his last
collecting trip to Panama in 1966. The majority of records concerning his
field work are found in three series. The first documents Wetmore's work prior
to his appointment to the U.S. Biological Survey in 1910 and includes field
notes, migration records, and lists made during his boyhood in Wisconsin;
similar materials compiled during his college days in Lawrence, Kansas, and on
trips to the western United States; and catalogues of his ornithological and
natural history collections. The second series consists of correspondence,
field notes, diaries, reports, expense records, and related materials
documenting field work carried out for the U. S. Biological Survey and the
Smithsonian Institution (with the exception of trips to Panama). Also included
are records created during trips to professional meetings, trips to study
museum specimens, and other official travel. The third series contains records
concerning his field trips to Panama, 1944, 1946-1966. Also included is a file
of permits used during his field investigations, as well as expense accounts
from his official travel. Photographic documentation of Wetmore's life
and career is a major strength of the collection. Included are voluminous
photographs, albums, lantern slides, 35mm color slides, motion pictures, and
negatives documenting his field work and other official travel. Also included
are portraits of Wetmore; photographs of Wetmore with family, friends, and
colleagues; photographs from his boyhood; photographs of Smithsonian events,
scientific meetings, and social gatherings; and photographs of professional
colleagues. The papers contain a file of collected materials documenting
Wetmore's personal life and family history. The file includes correspondence
with his immediate family and other relatives; various biographical
information; genealogical data on his family; school and college records;
papers and drawings from his early work on birds; congratulatory correspondence
and letters of introduction and recommendation; transcripts of an oral history
interview; and personnel records from his service in the federal government.
Of special interest is Wetmore's "private zoo"--a card catalogue of species
and subspecies named in his honor. A series of daily diaries and appointment
books helps to illustrate his day-to-day activities. Wetmore's
twenty-eight-year administrative career at the USNM and Smithsonian is
partially documented in the collection. Most of the records consist of routine
correspondence inquiring about employment at the USNM. Also included are
various files concerning Smithsonian activities, offices, and administrative
matters. The remainder of the collection primarily consists of materials
relating to his research in ornithology and avian paleontology. Included is a
large group of unpublished manuscripts, speeches, and radio talks prepared by
Wetmore. Also included are numerous letters; specimen lists; notes; published
manuscripts; field records; and publications relating to his research. Of
special interest are original journals, lists, and correspondence from field
work in Haiti by William Louis Abbott, 1916-1928, and Watson M. Perrygo,
1928-1929. The collection also contains a sample of original illustrations
used in his publications on fossil birds; and manuscripts, proofs, drawings,
and other materials from his magnum opus, The Birds of the Republic of
Panama. Also included in the collection are diplomas, certificates, and
awards received by Wetmore, and typescript copies of correspondence between
John Xantus and Spencer F. Baird. Additional records documenting
Wetmore's professional career can be found in the Smithsonian Archives.
Researchers interested in Wetmore's career as Assistant Secretary in charge of
the USNM and Secretary of the Smithsonian should consult Smithsonian Archives
record units 192 and 46. Field reports written during several investigations he
conducted for the U.S. Biological Survey can be found in record unit 7176,
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Field Reports, 1860-1961. Records
dealing with Wetmore's work on the fifth edition of the AOU Check-list of
North American Birds are a part of record unit 7050, American Ornithologists'
Union Collection, 1883-1977. An oral history interview (record unit 9504)
conducted by the Archives in 1974 provides insight to all aspects of Wetmore's
career. Record unit 9516, the Watson M. Perrygo oral history interviews,
include many reflections on Wetmore by his long-time field companion. A
voluminous collection of Wetmore's field catalogues, field notes, lists, and
other specimen-related records are housed in the Division of Birds, National
Museum of Natural History. 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
CHRONOLOGY
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1.
General Correspondence, 1901-1977, and undated, with Related Materials from 1879.
| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
Box 63 of 240
| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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 |
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. |
Box 125 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Exhibits, 1943, and undated | |
| Folder | 2 | Federal employee regulations, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1940-1941 | |
| Folder | 3 | Freer Gallery of Art, 1924, 1926-1928, 1966, 1970-1972, 1975 | |
| Folder | 4 | Miscellaneous memoranda, 1925-1949. Consists mostly of memoranda for the record. | |
| Folder | 5 | National Collection of Fine Arts Commission, 1968, 1970 | |
| Folder | 6 | National Herbarium, 1926, and undated | |
| Folder | 7 | National Museum of Engineering and Industry (proposed), 1926-1930, 1932 | |
| Folder | 8 | National Museum of History (proposed), 1934-1935. News clippings and articles concerning a proposal to create a separate Smithsonian museum devoted to American History. | |
| Folder | 9 | Projects for Latin American Ethnic Studies, undated | |
| Folder | 10 | Rare book consultants, 1972-1973 | |
| Folder | 11 | Regents Committee on Selection of the Secretary, 1951-1952. Records concerning the selection of Wetmore's successor. | |
| Folder | 12 | Repairs, 1938-1940 | |
| Folder | 13 | San Jose Project, 1945-1946 | |
| Folder | 14 | Scientific supplies, 1926-1928, 1938, and undated | |
| Folder | 15 | Smithson Bicentennial Celebration, 1965 | |
| Folder | 16 | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1953, 1955-1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1976. Consists mostly of correspondence concerning arrangements for Wetmore's field work in Panama. Correspondents include Martin Humphrey Moynihan and Adela Gomez. | |
| Folder | 17 | Stamp collection, 1935, 1938 | |
| Folder | 18 | Thefts, 1924, 1926, 1942 | |
| Folder | 19 | Carlos de la Torre Collection of Mollusks, 1941, 1950-1953 | |
| Folder | 20 | USNM Nomenclature Discussion Group, 1946-1949 |
This series consists of collected materials primarily documenting the personal life and family history of Alexander Wetmore. Included is correspondence with his immediate family and other relatives; genealogical information on the Wetmore and Woodworth families; biographical data on Wetmore; records documenting his education from grade school through college; papers and drawings from Wetmore's initial work on birds, including a manuscript of his first published paper "My Experience with a Young Red-Headed Woodpecker"; congratulatory correspondence; letters of introduction and recommendation written by Wetmore; records concerning invitations and awards; and a transcript of an oral history interview of Wetmore conducted by the Smithsonian Archives. Of special interest is Wetmore's "Private Zoo"--a card catalogue of species named in his honor.
Also included is a smaller amount of material concerning Wetmore's professional career which consists mostly of personnel notifications from the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Smithsonian. Of particular importance is a memorandum from Wetmore to Charles D. Walcott (13 March 1925) containing his thoughts on the future of the USNM. This memorandum was the basis for Wetmore's selection as Assistant Secretary.
Arranged Alphabetically
Box 126 of 240
| Folders | 1-2 | Biographical data, 1914, 1926, 1929-1930, 1935-1952, 1962, 1967, 1969-1971, 1974-1975, and undated. Consists of information provided to biographical dictionaries, professional organizations, clubs, and individuals. | |
| Folder | 3 | Biological Survey, United States, 1910-1914, 1916, 1919-1922, 1924, 1938-1940, and undated. Consists mostly of official personnel notifications. | |
| Folder | 4 | Bookplate, undated | |
| Folder | 5 | College papers, 1905-1910. Consists mostly of compositions written for a rhetoric class. | |
| Folder | 6 | Congratulations and commendations. General, 1953, 1959, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1974-1975. Includes correspondence written on Wetmore's retirement as Smithsonian Secretary, 1952-1953 and letters concerning his selection as recipient of the Arthur A. Allen Medal, 1970. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Acting Secretary, 1944. | |
| Folder | 8 | _________________. Secretary, 1944-1945. | |
| Folder | 9 | _________________. Ninetieth birthday, 1976-1977. | |
| Folder | 10 | Elliott Coues Award, 1972 | |
| Folder | 11 | Early drawings of birds, 1898-1902, 1908 | |
| Folder | 12 | Early papers on birds, 1899, 1906. Includes "My Experience with a Young Red-Headed Woodpecker," 1899; "The Usefulness of our Birds," 1899 (read before the Bird and Arbor Day celebration, North Freedom, Wisconsin, 12 May); and "In the Train of the Chicadee," 1906. |
Box 127 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Family correspondence, 1904, 1908-1913, 1919, 1922-1932, 1956, 1967-1968, 1971, and undated. Incoming and outgoing letters with aunts, uncles and cousins. Of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to Julia Crouch (30 November 1911) which contains a description of his field work in Alaska. | |
| Folder | 2 | Game Warden, 1938, 1941. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's appointment as a United States Deputy Game Warden, 5 May 1938. | |
| Folder | 3 | Genealogy, 1848-1849, 1923-1924, 1929, 1932-1942, 1945, 1948-1950, 1968, 1970-1971, 1976, and undated. Correspondence and other materials relating to the Wetmore and Woodworth families. Of special interest are two letters written by Chauncey Edward Wetmore (24 September 1848 and 18 April 1849) describing a trip to California. | |
| Folder | 4 | George Washington University, 1915-1919, 1924. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's graduate studies. | |
| Folder | 5 | Grade school and high school papers, 1901-1902, 1905. Includes "The Early Explorers in the Mississippi Valley," an essay read on graduation from grade school, North Freedom, Wisconsin, 7 June 1901. | |
| Folder | 6 | Invitations. Concerts, 1933-1942. | |
| Folder | 7 | ___________. Dedication exercises, 1926, 1929, 1938-1940, 1942, 1949, and undated. | |
| Folder | 8 | ___________. Dinners, 1926, 1928, 1935-1952. | |
| Folder | 9 | ___________. Lectures, 1911, 1928-1929, 1933-1945, and undated. | |
| Folder | 10 | ___________. Luncheons, 1936-1949. | |
| Folder | 11 | ___________. Receptions, 1935, 1940, 1944-1945, 1949, and undated. | |
| Folder | 12 | ___________. Miscellaneous, 1927, 1935-1950, and undated. |
Box 128 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Letters of introduction, 1928-1942, 1946-1950 | |
| Folder | 2 | Letters of recommendation, 1927, 1931-1945, 1949-1950, and undated | |
| Folder | 3 | Miscellany, 1907, 1917, 1925-1926, 1961, 1966, 1970, and undated. Includes joking notes sent to Wetmore by his colleagues; reviews of his publications; and a bird census taken at Mt. Vernon, Virginia, in 1917. | |
| Folder | 4 | Oral history interview conducted by the Smithsonian Archives, 18 April and 8 May, 1974 | |
| Folder | 5 | Passports, 1953-1959 | |
| Folder | 6 | "Private Zoo." Card catalogue of species named in Wetmore's honor. | |
| Folder | 7 | Reprints of articles describing species named for Wetmore, 1916, 1918-1919, 1924 | |
| Folder | 8 | "Rules of J. R.'s," circa 1897. Rules and regulations of Wetmore's boyhood club. | |
| Folder | 9 | Security clearance, 1947, 1949, 1951 | |
| Folder | 10 | Smithsonian Institution, 1914-1917, 1920-1921, 1924-1932, 1940-1947, 1950-1953, 1959, 1962-1963, 1966-1969, 1972. Consists primarily of personnel notifications and acknowledgments of specimens collected for the USNM. Of special interest is a memorandum from Wetmore to Charles D. Walcott (13 March 1925) which contains his thoughts on the future of the USNM. | |
| Folder | 11 | University of Kansas, 1911. Includes Wetmore's academic transcript. | |
| Folder | 12 | Wetmore, Beatrice Thielen, 1978-1979. Letters of condolence written to Wetmore's widow upon his death. | |
| Folder | 13 | Wetmore, Fay Holloway, 1924, 1926, and undated | |
| Folder | 14 | Wetmore, Margaret Fenwick Harlan, 1920-1921, 1924-1925, 1927, 1930-1931, and undated | |
| Folder | 15 | Wetmore, Nelson Franklin and Emma Amelia, 1907-1912, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1935. Incoming and outgoing correspondence with Wetmore's parents. Of special interest are letters detailing his field work in Arizona, 1907; Wyoming, 1910; Alaska, 1911; and Porto Rico, 1912. Also included are letters documenting his work as an Assistant at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1909. | |
| Folder | 16 | Wetmore, William G., 1922-1923, 1953, 1959-1960, 1962, 1965, and undated. Incoming and outgoing correspondence with Wetmore's brother. | |
| Folder | 17 | Will, 1969-1973. Correspondence concerning revisions in Wetmore's will. |
This series consists of itemized accounts for expenses incurred by Alexander Wetmore in connection with field work, attendance at scientific meetings, and other official travel for the Smithsonian Institution.
Arranged Chronologically
Box 129 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Expense accounts, 1929, 1937-1938, 1940-1945 | |
| Folder | 2 | Expense accounts, 1946-1958 | |
| Folder | 3 | Expense accounts, 1959-1965 | |
| Folder | 4 | Expense accounts, 1966-1974 |
This series consists of various permits used during field investigations of Alexander Wetmore. Included are scientific collecting permits; entry permits; camping permits; hunting licences; driver's licences; application forms; collecting and hunting regulations; annual reports of collections made by Wetmore and by official collecting parties of the Smithsonian Institution; recommendations for permits; and related correspondence.
Arranged Alphabetically by State, Country, or Type
Box 129 of 240
| Folder | 5 | Alaska, 1911 | |
| Folder | 6 | Arizona, 1919 | |
| Folder | 7 | Arkansas, 1917 | |
| Folder | 8 | California, 1906, 1914, 1929-1932, 1934, 1937-1941, 1948 | |
| Folder | 9 | Colorado, 1909 | |
| Folder | 10 | District of Columbia, 1924-1925, 1938, 1941 | |
| Folder | 11 | Federal, 1918-1928, 1932-1951, 1955-1977 | |
| Folder | 12 | Florida, 1924, 1927-1929, 1933-1934, 1938, 1975 | |
| Folder | 13 | Idaho, 1915 | |
| Folder | 14 | Kansas, 1907, 1911-1912, 1916 | |
| Folder | 15 | Kentucky, 1938 |
Box 130 of 240
| Folders | 1-2 | Maryland, 1913, 1918-1974 | |
| Folder | 3 | Massachusetts, 1929, 1937 | |
| Folder | 4 | Mexico, undated | |
| Folder | 5 | Michigan, 1951-1952 | |
| Folder | 6 | Montana, 1915 | |
| Folder | 7 | North Carolina, 1929, 1933-1942 | |
| Folder | 8 | Oregon, 1918 | |
| Folder | 9 | Pennsylvania, 1931-1938 | |
| Folder | 10 | South Carolina, 1940 | |
| Folder | 11 | Tennessee, 1937 | |
| Folder | 12 | Texas, 1938 | |
| Folder | 13 | Utah, 1914 | |
| Folders | 14-15 | Virginia, 1921-1973 | |
| Folder | 16 | Virginia. Shenandoah National Park, 1936, 1942-1943, 1946-1947, 1954, 1961, 1963-1964, and undated. | |
| Folder | 17 | West Virginia, 1935-1941, 1946-1947 | |
| Folder | 18 | Wisconsin, 1902-1903, 1906, 1922 | |
| Folder | 19 | Wyoming, 1910 |
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Box 131 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Field notes. Florida, 1894-1895. His first recorded natural history observations taken at the age of eight. | |
| Folder | 2 | Field notes. Partial list of birds seen in Wisconsin, 1898. | |
| Folders | 3-10 | Field notes. January 1898 - April 1902. Bird observations made in and around North Freedom, Wisconsin. Notes of June 1901 were kept on a trip to Minnesota. |
Box 132 of 240
| Folders | 1-8 | Field notes, May 1902 - December 1904. Mostly bird observations made in and around North Freedom, Wisconsin. Notes for November 27 - December 1, 1904 were taken at Independence, Kansas. |
Box 133 of 240
| Folders | 1-5 | Field notes, December 1904 - January 1907. Mostly bird observations and collecting data taken at Independence and Lawrence, Kansas. Also includes notes taken at Minco, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), May 1905; and Stockton, California, October 1906 - January 1907. |
Box 134 of 240
| Folders | 1-4 | Field notes, January 1907 - February 1910. Bird observations and collection data recorded at Stockton, California, January - February, 1907; Arizona Territory, February - July 1907; Lawrence, Kansas, July 1907 - May 1908; Canandaigna Lake, New York, July - August 1908; Rockport, Canada, August 1908; and Colorado, April 1909 - February 1910. |
Box 135 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Field notes, October 1911. Probably taken at Lawrence, Kansas. | |
| Folder | 2 | Field notes, February - August 1913. Bird observations made on trips in Washington, D. C., Maryland, and Virginia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Field notes, 1935-1936. Brief notes recorded on several trips to the Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Field notes, undated. Probably taken at North Freedom, Wisconsin, circa 1898-1904. | |
| Folder | 5 | Catalog of Bird Skeletons, circa 1910-1913 | |
| Folder | 6 | Catalog of Egg Collection, circa 1899-1901 | |
| Folder | 7 | Catalog of Stomachs, August 1918 - September 1922, volume III, no. 4295 - no. 4854 | |
| Folder | 8 | Catalog of Plants, January 1919 - April 1921, no. 575 - no. 915 | |
| Folder | 9 | Laboratory notes, entomology, 1905-1906. |
Box 136 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Laboratory notes, entomology, 1906 | |
| Folder | 2 | Laboratory notes, chordate morphology, 1910 | |
| Folder | 3 | Migration records, spring, 1900 | |
| Folder | 4 | Migration records, spring, 1901 | |
| Folder | 5 | Migration records, fall, 1901 | |
| Folder | 6 | Migration records, spring, 1902 | |
| Folder | 7 | Migration records, fall, 1902 | |
| Folder | 8 | Migration records, spring, 1903 | |
| Folder | 9 | Migration records, fall, 1903 | |
| Folder | 10 | Migration records, spring, 1904 | |
| Folder | 11 | Migration records, fall, 1904 | |
| Folder | 12 | Migration records, spring, 1908 | |
| Folder | 13 | Migration records, undated | |
| Folder | 14 | Monthly bird list, July 1900 | |
| Folder | 15 | Monthly bird lists, June 1902 - February 1903 | |
| Folder | 16 | Monthly bird lists, June 1902 - January 1905 | |
| Folder | 17 | Monthly bird lists, February 1904 - January 1905 | |
| Folder | 18 | Miscellaneous notes, circa 1903-1904. Includes botany notes, and various notes and lists relating to Wetmore's bird collection. | |
| Folder | 19 | Miscellaneous notes, circa 1904-1907. Includes data for Christmas bird censuses, and a synopsis of collections made in Kansas, California, and Arizona. | |
| Folder | 20 | Miscellaneous notes, circa 1909-1910. Includes a list of birds mounted for the University of Kansas; a mammal catalog; and lecture notes on anthropology and geology. | |
| Folder | 21 | Miscellaneous notes, circa 1909, 1915, and undated. Includes bird lists for Minco, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and Independence, Kansas, and lecture notes on economics. | |
| Folder | 22 | Miscellaneous notes, undated. Partial synopsis of bird records, Sauk County, Wisconsin. |
This series provides comprehensive documentation of Alexander Wetmore's extensive field work and travel during his service in the federal government. Included are records documenting field trips undertaken for the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Smithsonian Institution; his attendance at scientific conferences and professional meetings, especially of the American Ornithologists' Union and the International Ornithological Congress; inspection trips for the National Geographic Society; and study trips to foreign and domestic museums.
The records include correspondence, field notes, field diaries, expense records, reports, itineraries, photographs and photographic data, newsclippings, reference materials, maps, publications, and memorabilia.
Records concerning Wetmore's Panama field work are found in series 9. Researchers interested in his field work and other travel should also consult series 1, general correspondence, and series 13, photographic materials.
Arranged Chronologically
Box 137 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Wyoming, 1910. To gather data on economic status and geographical distribution of birds and mammals. Included is an expense book, a post card from Merritt Cary, 5 June 1910, and a map. | |
| Folder | 2 | Alaska, 1911. With Arthur Cleveland Bent to gather data on the economic status and geographic distribution of birds and mammals. Included is correspondence, an expense book, maps, reports on the investigations, and photographs. | |
| Folder | 3 | Porto Rico, 1911-1912. To investigate the economic status of birds and mammals in cooperation with the Porto Rico Department of Agriculture. Correspondence. | |
| Folder | 4 | _________________. Field diaries, 13 December 1911 - 15 September 1912. Four volumes. | |
| Folder | 5 | _________________. Expense books and addresses. | |
| Folder | 6 | Utah and California, 1914. To investigate the nature and origin of duck disease and feeding habits of waterfowl. Includes correspondence, 1914-1915, and expense books. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Field diaries, 15 July - 10 December, 1914. Two volumes. | |
| Folder | 8 | Utah and Montana, 1914-1915. To continue investigations into the nature and origin of duck mortality. Correspondence, expense books, receipts, and bank statements. |
Box 138 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Utah and Montana, 1914-1915. Field diaries, 8 July 1914 - 24 October 1915. Two volumes. | |
| Folder | 2 | Utah, 1916. To continue investigations in relation to disease and mortality among wild ducks. Correspondence and receipts. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________. Expense books and bank statements. | |
| Folder | 4 | __________. Field diaries, 8 May - 26 October 1916. | |
| Folder | 5 | Utah and Montana, 1914-1916. Maps and blue prints. | |
| Folder | 6 | North Carolina, 1917. To investigate damage to farm crops by birds and devise methods of control. Includes a field diary, 4-10 June 1917, correspondence, an expense book, and a report on the investigation. | |
| Folder | 7 | Arkansas and Texas, 1917-1918. To investigate damage done by birds to rice crops. Includes a field diary, 12 December 1917 - 6 January 1918, correspondence, and a report on the investigation. | |
| Folder | 8 | Western United States, 1918. To obtain information on breeding waterfowl and the economic value of bats. Field diaries, 18 May - 26 September 1918. |
Box 139 of 240
| Folders | 1-2 | Western United States, 1918. Correspondence, field reports, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 3 | _________________. Expense books. | |
| Folder | 4 | Florida, 1919. To obtain information on the feeding habits of pelicans; lead poisoning of swans and other species of birds; and reported damage to sugar cane crops by rodents. Includes a field diary, 16 January - 4 March 1919, correspondence, reports, expense book, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 5 | Arizona, 1919. To investigate the economic status of the thick-billed parrot, doves, and other birds. Includes a field diary, 20 May - 24 July 1919, correspondence, reports, expense books, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 6 | Maryland and Virginia, 1920. To conduct a waterfowl census of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Includes correspondence and expense books. | |
| Folder | 7 | South America, 1920-1921. To investigate the distribution of life zones of North American migrant birds in southern South America. On this trip, Wetmore was designated a temporary disbursing agent for the Department of Treasury. Includes correspondence concerning his work for the Department of Treasury and other fiscal matters, receipts, bank statements, canceled checks, and expense books. |
Box 140 of 240
| Folders | 1-2 | South America, 1920-1921. Includes correspondence (in English and Spanish), photographic data, newsclippings, memorabilia, and reference materials. Of special interest is a letter from Edward William Nelson (22 November 1920) concerning an offer to Wetmore to join the Third Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. | |
| Folder | 3 | _________________. Field diaries, dates uncertain. | |
| Folder | 4 | _________________. Reports, photographs, and miscellaneous notes. | |
| Folder | 5 | _________________. Timetables. | |
| Folder | 6 | _________________. Maps and star charts. Includes map of Wetmore's collecting localities. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Newsclippings. |
Box 141 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Georgia, 1921. To testify for government prosecution of violators of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Includes correspondence, diary, expense books, court rulings, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 2 | South Carolina, 1922. To investigate the possible use of Buzzard Island as a federal bird reservation. Includes field notes, 18-19 July 1922, correspondence, reports, maps, and an expense book. | |
| Folder | 3 | Minnesota and North Dakota, 1922. To investigate the possibility of creating a game refuge on Island Lake, Minnesota, and collect specimens of Canada Geese and obtain information on their distribution and occurrence in North Dakota. Includes field notes, circa 25 August - 25 September 1922, correspondence, reports, and an expense book. | |
| Folder | 4 | Pennsylvania, 1922. To investigate the condition of quail introduced from northeastern Mexico. Includes field notes, 31 October - 4 November 1922, reports, correspondence, reference materials, and an expense book. | |
| Folder | 5 | Maryland, 1922. To investigate the condition of quail introduced from northeastern Mexico. Includes field notes, 12-17 November 1922, reports, correspondence, and an expense book. | |
| Folders | 6-7 | Hawaii, 1923 (Tanager Expedition). To examine and secure information on the islands in the Hawaii bird reservation. Correspondence, 1923- 1925, 1931, 1937, and undated. Includes itineraries, personnel rosters, bird data, reports, and related materials. | |
| Folder | 8 | _________________. Fiscal records, including correspondence, bank statements, canceled checks, expense books, receipts, and vouchers. |
Box 142 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Hawaii, 1923 (Tanager Expedition). Maps. | |
| Folder | 2 | _________________. Memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 3 | _________________. Photographs and photographic data. Includes photographs taken by Wetmore and other expedition members. | |
| Folder | 4 | _________________. Field notes, circa 10 April- 20 August 1923. | |
| Folder | 5 | _________________. Journal, 10 March - 21 August. Typescript copy. | |
| Folder | 6 | _________________. Article, "Lava Rock and Coral Sand." Published in part in the National Geographic magazine. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Journal of Donald Ryder Dickey, 24 March - 28 April 1923. Typescript copy. | |
| Folders | 8-9 | _________________. Reference materials. | |
| Folder | 10 | _________________. Newsclippings. |
Box 143 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Massachusetts, 1923. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Cambridge. Includes correspondence and a report. | |
| Folder | 2 | Pennsylvania, 1924. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Pittsburgh. Includes correspondence and a report. | |
| Folder | 3 | Haiti and Dominican Republic, 1927. To make natural history collections for the USNM. Includes field notes, circa 23 March - 3 June 1927, correspondence, expense records, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 4 | Western United States, 1928. To examine bird collections in western museums. Consists of a letter of instruction from Charles G. Abbot, 10 April 1928. | |
| Folder | 5 | Europe, 1930. To collect specimens of birds for the USNM in Spain, and attend the VII International Ornithological Congress in Amsterdam. Correspondence, itineraries, and expense records. | |
| Folder | 6 | ____________. Field notes, circa 3 May - 21 June, 1930, passport, collected business cards, memorabilia, and maps. | |
| Folder | 7 | ____________. Photographs of Spain. | |
| Folder | 8 | Haiti, 1931. To collect natural history specimens for the USNM. Accompanied by Frederick C. Lincoln. Field notes, circa 12 March - 1 June, 1931; correspondence with John Enos Graf, Charles Wallace Richmond, and others; expense records; and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 9 | Western United States, 1932. To conduct field research and collect natural history specimens, particularly in Arizona. Correspondence with John Enos Graf and others; notes; expense records; and memorabilia. |
Box 144 of 240
| Folder | 1 | England, 1934. To attend VIII International Ornithological Congress at Oxford. Correspondence, field and travel notes, expense records, programs, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 2 | _____________. Tourist guides, timetables, and maps. | |
| Folder | 3 | Guatemala, 1936. To conduct ornithological investigations and collect specimens for the USNM. Correspondence, 1936-1937. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, William Wilson Popenoe, and Thomas Barbour. | |
| Folder | 4 | _______________. Travel notes, expense records, photographs, reference materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 5 | _______________. Maps and city plans. | |
| Folder | 6 | Virginia, 1937. To collect bird specimens on Mount Rogers for the USNM. Accompanied by Joseph James Murray. Correspondence, especially with Murray; expense records; and a report on the winter wren in Virginia. | |
| Folder | 7 | Venezuela, 1937. To collect bird specimens for the USNM. Correspondence with John Enos Graf, Charles G. Abbot, William Wilson Popenoe, and others; expense records; travel notes; memorabilia; and photographs of Wetmore, Popenoe, Henri Pittier, and Ventura Barnes, Jr. | |
| Folder | 8 | France, 1938. To attend IX International Ornithological Congress and meeting of the International Committee for Bird Preservation in Rouen. Correspondence, programs, travel and field notes, expense records, maps, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Jean Theodore Delacour. |
Box 145 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Mexico, 1939. To collect bird specimens for the USNM. Correspondence, expense records, permits, film notes, memorabilia, and reference materials. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, and Matthew Williams Stirling. Of special interest is correspondence with Stirling concerning his anthropological field work at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz. | |
| Folder | 2 | Costa Rica, 1940. To collect bird specimens for the USNM, and examine the biological laboratory on Barro Colorado Island and an archaeological site in Guatemala. Correspondence, expense records, field notes, photographs and photographic records, and reference materials. Correspondents include Charles G. Abbot, John Enos Graf, Frank M. Setzler, and Louise M. Pearson. | |
| Folder | 3 | _________________. Maps, tourist guides, and timetables. | |
| Folder | 4 | Colombia, 1941. To collect bird specimens for the USNM. Accompanied by Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. Correspondence, film notes, reference materials, and a field report. Correspondents include Carriker, Ventura Barnes, Jr., Armando Dugand, F. Carlos Lehmann V., William H. Phelps, William Wilson Popenoe, and James Zetek. | |
| Folder | 5 | _____________. Expense records. | |
| Folder | 6 | California, 1948. To attend the executive committee meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Correspondence, itinerary, memorabilia, and a photograph. | |
| Folder | 7 | Nebraska, 1948. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union at Omaha. Correspondence and itinerary. Correspondents include Olin Sewell Pettingill, Jr., and Frederick C. Lincoln. | |
| Folder | 8 | Sweden, 1950. To attend the X International Ornithological Congress at Uppsala. Correspondence, travel and film notes, expense records, maps, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 9 | Michigan, 1951. To observe the Kirtland Warbler. Correspondence, travel notes, and a map. Correspondents include Josselyn Van Tyne. |
Box 146 of 240
| Folder | 1 | California, 1952. To attend the executive committee meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Correspondence, expense records, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 2 | Venezuela, 1952. To attend the Third General Assembly of the International Union for the Protection of Nature held in Caracas. Correspondence, programs, list of participants, speeches, and reports. Correspondents include James H. Kempton and William H. Phelps, Jr. | |
| Folder | 3 | _______________. Expense records, travel and film notes, photographs, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | _______________. Newsclippings. | |
| Folder | 5 | California, 1953. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Los Angeles. Correspondence, expense records, programs, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 6 | Venezuela, 1954. To take part in a ornithological expedition sponsored by William H. Phelps. Correspondence, travel notes, expense records, itineraries, provisions lists, maps, reports, and reference materials. Correspondents include James H. Kempton, William H. Phelps, Jr., and Helena M. Weiss. | |
| Folder | 7 | _______________. Newsclippings. | |
| Folder | 8 | Europe, 1954. To attend the XI International Ornithological Congress in Basel, Switzerland, and conduct research in Vienna and London. Correspondence, expense records, programs, and newsclippings. | |
| Folder | 9 | ____________. Travel and film notes, memorabilia, and maps. | |
| Folder | 10 | Wisconsin, 1954. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Madison. Correspondence, expense records, travel notes, programs, abstracts of papers, and memorabilia. |
Box 147 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Massachusetts, 1955. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Boston. Correspondence, expense records, reports, and meeting records. | |
| Folder | 2 | Nebraska and South Dakota, 1955. To attend Twentieth Anniversary Observance of the World Record Stratosphere Flight as a representative of the National Geographic Society. Correspondence, itineraries, newsclippings, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Colorado, 1956. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Denver and Boulder. Correspondence, expense records, travel notes, and meeting records. | |
| Folder | 4 | Illinois, 1957. To address the Centennial Meeting of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Correspondence, expense records, reference materials, and his speech, "The Standing of the Natural Sciences in the Atomic Age." | |
| Folder | 5 | Africa, 1957. To attend the Pan-Africa Ornithological Congress in Livingstone, Rhodesia. Correspondence, expense records, itineraries, meeting records, and a group photograph of the Congress. | |
| Folder | 6 | ____________. Maps and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 7 | New Jersey, 1957. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Cape May. Correspondence, expense records, travel notes, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 8 | Finland and England, 1958. To attend the XII International Ornithological Congress in Helsinki and the XV International Congress of Zoology in London. Correspondence, travel notes, meeting materials, maps, and memorabilia. |
Box 148 of 240
| Folder | 1 | New York, 1958. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in New York City. Programs and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 2 | Jamaica, 1959. Official travel for the National Geographic Society. Itinerary, travel and film notes, receipts, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Saskatchewan, 1959. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Regina and visit in North Freedom, Wisconsin, on return. Correspondence, expense records, film notes, itineraries, meeting materials, reports, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Michigan, 1960. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Ann Arbor. Correspondence, receipts, reports, meeting materials, newsclippings, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 5 | Virginia, 1961. To attend the Virginia Society of Ornithology meeting in Abingdon. Program, receipts, map, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 6 | Colorado, 1961. To inspect the National Geographic Society's Wetherill Mesa Archaeological Project, Mesa Verde National Park. Correspondence, itinerary, program, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 7 | Utah, 1962. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Salt Lake City. Correspondence, reports, meeting materials, receipts, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 8 | Florida, 1963. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Gainesville. Correspondence, expense records, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 9 | Colorado, 1964. To inspect the National Geographic Society's Wetherill Mesa Archaeological Project, Mesa Verde National Park. Correspondence, agendas, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 10 | Kansas, 1964. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Lawrence. Correspondence, reports, receipts, meeting materials, and memorabilia. |
Box 149 of 240
| Folder | 1 | England, 1964. To study the bird collections at the British Museum (Natural History). Correspondence, travel notes, receipts, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 2 | East Africa and Monaco, 1965. To participate in an inspection tour of projects supported by the National Geographic Society, including projects conducted by Louis S. B. Leakey and Jacques Cousteau. Correspondence, reports, itineraries, travel notes, expense records, agendas, newsclippings, and photographs. | |
| Folder | 3 | ________________________. Maps and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Ohio, 1965. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Columbus. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 5 | Illinois, 1966. To attend a meeting of the National Geographic Society's Board of Trustees in Chicago and study the bird collections at the Chicago Natural History Museum. Correspondence, itinerary, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 6 | England, 1966. To attend the XIV International Ornithological Congress at Oxford and study birds at the British Museum (Natural History). Correspondence and meeting materials. | |
| Folder | 7 | _____________. Travel notes, maps, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 8 | Minnesota, 1966. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Duluth. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. Of special interest is a copy of pileated woodpecker observations by Fred Kent Truslow. |
Box 150 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Florida, 1967. To review National Geographic Society research projects at the Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami. Correspondence, itinerary, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 2 | California, 1967. To inspect the National Geographic Society - San Bernadino County Museum sponsored archaeological excavation at Calico Hill led by Louis S. B. Leakey. Correspondence, itinerary, reports, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Virginia, 1967. To attend the meeting of the Virginia Ornithological Society in Richmond. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Ontario, 1967. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Toronto. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 5 | Connecticut, 1967. To attend the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in New Haven. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 6 | Virginia, 1968. To attend the Virginia Society of Ornithology meeting in Charlottesville. Correspondence and meeting materials. | |
| Folder | 7 | Alaska, 1968. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Fairbanks. Correspondence, expense records, itinerary, meeting materials, and a newsclipping which includes a photograph of Wetmore celebrating his eighty-second birthday. | |
| Folder | 8 | Netherlands Antilles, 1969. To study bird populations on the island of Bonaire. Correspondence, reports, newsclippings, permits, travel notes, expense records, memorabilia, and photographs and photographic records. | |
| Folder | 9 | Virginia, 1969. To attend the joint meeting of the Virginia Society of Ornithology and the Wilson Ornithological Society in Williamsburg. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. |
Box 151 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Turkey, Cyprus, and England, 1969. To review archaeological research projects sponsored by the National Geographic Society in Turkey and Cyprus and to study the bird collections at the British Museum (Natural History). Correspondence, itineraries, reports, travel notes, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 2 | _________________. Reference materials and maps. | |
| Folder | 3 | Arkansas, 1969. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Fayetteville. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Pennsylvania, 1970. To attend a dinner honoring Leonard Carmichael as recipient of the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geological Society of Philadelphia. Correspondence, expense records, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 5 | Illinois, 1970. To attend a meeting of the National Geographic Society's Board of Trustees and to study the bird collections at the Field Museum of Natural History. Correspondence, receipts, and meeting materials. | |
| Folder | 6 | Netherlands and England, 1970. To attend the XV International Ornithological Congress at the Hague and study the bird collections at the British Museum (Natural History). Correspondence; meeting materials; notes on birds studied; expense records; travel records; photographs of Wetmore, Guy Mountfort, A. Landsborough Thompson, and Erwin Stresseman; and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Abstracts of papers given at XV International Ornithological Congress. |
Box 152 of 240
| Folder | 1 | New York, 1970. To visit the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, with the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society. Correspondence, itineraries, and reference materials. | |
| Folder | 2 | New York, 1970. To accept the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Arthur A. Allen Award in Ithaca. Correspondence, biographical notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Ernst Mayr and Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. | |
| Folder | 3 | Virginia, 1971. To attend the Virginia Society of Ornithology meeting in Staunton. Correspondence, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 4 | Washington, 1971. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Seattle. Correspondence and meeting materials. | |
| Folder | 5 | Virginia, 1972. To attend the Virginia Society of Ornithology meeting in Fredericksburg. Correspondence, meeting materials, and a handwritten draft of his paper, "Ancient Records from the Coastal Area." | |
| Folder | 6 | North Dakota, 1972. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Grand Forks. Correspondence, travel notes, expense records, meeting materials, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Abstracts of papers given at the 1972 AOU meeting. | |
| Folder | 8 | Massachusetts, 1973. To attend the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Provincetown and study the bird collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Correspondence, itineraries, and meeting materials. | |
| Folder | 9 | _________________. Memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 10 | Virginia, 1974. To attend the Virginia Society of Ornithology meeting in Virginia Beach. Correspondence, checklist of birds, receipts, and meeting materials. |
This series contains records documenting Alexander Wetmore's field work in Panama in 1944 and from 1946 to 1966. Wetmore made a detailed and exhaustive survey of Panama's birds, covering the entire isthmus with his explorations. The culmination of this extensive work was the publication of The Birds of the Republic of Panama.
The records include correspondence, field reports, itineraries, photographs and photographic data, expense records, permits, notes, newsclippings, reference materials, and memorabilia. The correspondence, which is mostly with Smithsonian officials and staff, not only documents Wetmore's work, but also provides useful information on day-to-day activities at the Institution during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Letters written by John Enos Graf are of particular importance.
Researchers should also see series 13 for photographs relating to Wetmore's field explorations in Panama.
Arranged Chronologically
Box 153 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Panama, 1944. To inspect the experimental work of the Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army, on San Jose Island and make natural history collections for the USNM. Assisted by Joseph P. E. Morrison. Correspondence, expense records, permits, and vaccination certificates. Correspondents include Morrison, John Enos Graf, Harry W. Dorsey, Louise M. Pearson, and Frank M. Setzler. | |
| Folder | 2 | ____________. Reference materials, addresses of contacts, passport photographs, newsclippings, and memorabilia. | |
| Folder | 3 | Panama, 1946. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, inspect the San Jose Project of 1944, and collect bird specimens in Darien. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, photographs and photographic notes, expense records, travel notes, reference materials, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf and Louise M. Pearson. | |
| Folder | 4 | Panama, 1947. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, inspect the San Jose Project of 1944, and collect bird specimens in Darien. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, expense records, travel notes, newsclippings, and film notes. Correspondents include John Enos Graf. Of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to H. R. Harmon (12 June 1947) which contains a report on the expedition. | |
| Folder | 5 | Panama, 1948. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Herrera and Los Santos. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, newsclippings, expense records, film notes, travel notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, and James Zetek. Of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to Willis H. Hale (6 May 1948) which contains a report on the expedition. | |
| Folder | 6 | Panama, 1949. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Chepo and other parts of Panama. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, reference materials, expense records, travel notes, and film notes. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, James Zetek, Ratibor Hartmann, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and Karl P. Curtis. Of special interest is correspondence with the Stirlings concerning their archaeological field work in Panama, and a letter from Wetmore to Willis H. Hale (8 June 1949) which contains a report on the expedition. | |
| Folder | 7 | Panama, 1950. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Chiman and along Rio Maje in Darien. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, reference materials, expense records, travel notes, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Herbert C. Clark, Karl P. Curtis, Charles Lewis Gazin, and Ratibor Hartmann. |
Box 154 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Panama, 1951. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Cerro Campana and other points in Panama. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, permits, newsclippings, expense records, travel notes, itinerary, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Ratibor Hartmann, John L. Keddy, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek. Of special interest is correspondence from the Stirlings documenting archaeological field work in Panama. | |
| Folder | 2 | Panama, 1952. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens along the Rio Indio and on Taboga Island. Correspondence, expense records, newsclippings, reference materials, travel notes, film notes, itinerary, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Eugene Eisenmann, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek. | |
| Folder | 3 | Panama, 1953. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and the Museo Nacional and collect bird specimens in Sona, Veraguas. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, permits, photographs and photographic notes, expense records, itinerary, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, Margaret Wetmore Harlan, James Zetek, Eugene Eisenmann, and Karl P. Curtis. | |
| Folder | 4 | Panama, 1954. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens in Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. The Netherlands Antilles and Venezuela were also visited. Correspondence, newsclippings, reference materials, permits, itinerary, film notes, travel notes, expense records, field report, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Watson M. Perrygo, James Zetek, and Adela Gomez. | |
| Folder | 5 | Panama, 1955. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and to collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, permits, newsclippings, film notes, travel notes, expense records, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, A. Remington Kellogg, and James Zetek. | |
| Folder | 6 | Panama, 1956. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and on Isla Coiba. Correspondence, film notes, travel notes, newsclippings, expense records, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, A. Remington Kellogg, James Zetek, and Margaret Wetmore Harlan. | |
| Folder | 7 | Panama, 1957. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, the Museo Nacional, and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory; and to collect bird specimens in the Tonosi Valley, Los Santos, San Blas Islands, and the Azuero Peninsula. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, newsclippings, reference materials, travel notes, film notes, expense records, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Herbert Friedmann, Herbert Girton Deignan, Henry Allen Moe, and Margaret Harlan Wetmore. |
Box 155 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Panama, 1958. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone, Bocas del Toro, Cocle, La Jagua, and on Isla Escudo de Veraguas. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, reference materials, expense records, travel notes, photographs and photographic records, field report, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Herbert Friedmann and Louise M. Pearson. | |
| Folder | 2 | Panama, 1959. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and Darien. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, expense records, newsclippings, travel notes, film notes, field report, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Herbert Friedmann and Charles O. Handley, Jr. Of special interest are Handley's letters documenting his field work in Panama. | |
| Folder | 3 | Panama, 1960. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and on various Pacific islands. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, newsclippings, expense records, film notes, travel notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Carl Milton Johnson and Pedro Galindo. | |
| Folder | 4 | Panama, 1961. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and Darien. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, newsclippings, expense records, travel notes, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Adela Gomez and Richard H. Stewart. | |
| Folder | 5 | Panama, 1962. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and the Bay of Panama. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, permits, newsclippings, itinerary, expense records, travel notes, photographs and photographic records, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Richard H. Stewart. | |
| Folder | 6 | Panama, 1963. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect birds in the Canal Zone, Cocle, Darien, the San Blas Islands, and the islands off the coast of Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, permits, travel notes, film notes, field report, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Harvey R. Bullis, Jr. | |
| Folder | 7 | Panama, 1964. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and collect bird specimens in El Real and on Cerro Mali. Correspondence, newsclippings, permits, maps, film notes, travel notes, expense records, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Pedro Galindo, Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. | |
| Folder | 8 | Panama, 1965. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and to collect bird specimens on Isla Cebaco and other points in Panama. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, newsclippings, photographs and photographic data, travel notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. | |
| Folder | 9 | Panama, 1966. To visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, and collect bird specimens in the Canal Zone and Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore. Correspondence, newsclippings, travel notes, photographs and photographic data, permits, and memorabilia. |
This series consists of handwritten manuscripts, typed copies, page proofs, drawings, notes, and correspondence relating to Alexander Wetmore's The Birds of the Republic of Panama, parts 1-3.
Box 156 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 1. Page proofs, title to p. 175. | |
| Folder | 2 | __________________. Part 1. Page proofs, pp. 176-300. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________________. Part 1. Page proofs, pp. 301-483. | |
| Folder | 4 | __________________. Part 1. Abstract in Spanish by J. F. Lopez. Includes correspondence, 1969. | |
| Folder | 5 | __________________. Part 1. Corrigenda. | |
| Folder | 6 | __________________. Part 2. Contract, 1968. | |
| Folder | 7 | __________________. Part 2. Introduction. | |
| Folders | 8-9 | __________________. Part 2. Columbidae. |
Box 157 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Columbidae. | |
| Folder | 2 | __________________. Part 2. Psittacidae. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________________. Part 2. Cuculidae. | |
| Folder | 4 | __________________. Part 2. Stringidae. | |
| Folder | 5 | __________________. Part 2. Tytonidae. | |
| Folder | 6 | __________________. Part 2. Steatornithidea. | |
| Folder | 7 | __________________. Part 2. Nyctibiidae. | |
| Folder | 8 | __________________. Part 2. Caprimulgidae. |
Box 158 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Apodidae. | |
| Folders | 2-6 | __________________. Part 2. Trochilidae. | |
| Folder | 7 | __________________. Part 2. Trogonidae. |
Box 159 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Alcedinidae. | |
| Folder | 2 | __________________. Part 2. Momotidae. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________________. Part 2. Galbulidae. | |
| Folder | 4 | __________________. Part 2. Bucconidae. | |
| Folder | 5 | __________________. Part 2. Capitonidae. | |
| Folder | 6 | __________________. Part 2. Ramphastidae. | |
| Folder | 7 | __________________. Part 2. Picidae. | |
| Folder | 8 | __________________. Part 3. Introduction. | |
| Folder | 9 | __________________. Part 3. Dendrocolaptidae. | |
| Folders | 10-11 | __________________. Part 3. Furnariidae. |
Box 160 of 240
| Folders | 1-4 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 3. Formicariidae. | |
| Folder | 5 | __________________. Part 3. Rhinocryptidae. | |
| Folders | 6-7 | __________________. Part 3. Cotingidae. | |
| Folder | 8 | __________________. Part 3. Pipridae. |
Box 161 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 3. Tyrannidae. | |
| Folder | 2 | __________________. Part 3. Oxyruncidae. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________________. Spanish translation, 1969-1971. | |
| Folders | 4-9 | __________________. Miscellaneous notes and data. | |
| Folder | 10 | Drawing of Pharomachrus mocino costaricensis. Published in Birds of the Republic of Panama, part 2. |
This series consists of a sample of the original illustrations used in many of Alexander Wetmore's papers on fossil birds. Most of the illustrations were executed by Sydney C. Prentice, to whom Wetmore dedicated a new species of rail in 1944. Also included are a few photographs of fossil bird bones.
Arranged Alphabetically
Box 162 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Ara antocrhones. Figures 8-12, "Ancient Records of Birds from the Island of St. Croix with Observations on Extinct and Living Birds of Puerto Rico," 1937. | |
| Folder | 2 | Aramides cajanea. Figures 14-16, "The Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida," 1931. | |
| Folder | 3 | Badistornis aramus. Figures 7-10, "Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States," 1940. | |
| Folder | 4 | Bathornis celeripes. Figures 1-3 and 6-14, "Bird Remains from the Oligocene Deposits of Torrington, Wyoming," 1933. | |
| Folder | 5 | Bathornis cursor. Figures 15-19, "Bird Remains from the Oligocene Deposits of Torrington, Wyoming," 1933. | |
| Folder | 6 | Bathornis geographicus. Figures 5-9, "Two New Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of South Dakota," 1942. | |
| Folder | 7 | Bathornis veredus. Figures 19-24 and 70, "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado," 1927. | |
| Folder | 8 | Buteo antecursor. Figures 1-5, "Bird Remains from the Oligocene Deposits of Torrington, Wyoming," 1933. | |
| Folder | 9 | Buteo typhoius. Figures 58-61, "Avian Fossils from the Miocene and Pliocene of Nebraska," 1923. | |
| Folder | 10 | Calohierax quodratus. Figures 1-3, "Bird Remains from Cave Deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas," 1937. | |
| Folder | 11 | Chen pressa. Figures 5-8, "Pliocene Bird Remains from Idaho," 1933. | |
| Folder | 12 | Colymbus oligocaenus. Figures 6-7, "A Record of the Fossil Grebe Colymbus parvus, from the Pliocene of California, with Remarks on Other American Fossils of This Family," 1937. | |
| Folder | 13 | Colymbus parvus. Figures 1-5 and 14-15, "A Record of the Fossil Grebe, Colymbus parvus, from the Pliocene of California, with Remarks on Other American Fossils of This Family," 1937. Includes handwritten notes. | |
| Folder | 14 | Compsothlypid. Figures 6-9, "Fossil Birds from the Tertiary Deposits of Florida," 1943. | |
| Folder | 15 | Cyrtonyx cooki. Figures 1-3, "A Fossil Quail from Nebraska," 1934. | |
| Folder | 16 | Diomedea anglica. Figures 12-17, "Fossil Birds from the Tertiary Deposits of Florida," 1943. | |
| Folder | 17 | Eocrex primus. Figures 21-25, "Two Primitive Rails from the Eocene of Colorado and Wyoming," 1931. | |
| Folder | 18 | Eogrus aeola. Figures 1, 3-5, "Fossil Birds from Mongolia and China," 1934. | |
| Folder | 19 | Eonessa anaticula. Figures 1-5, "A Fossil Duck from the Eocene of Utah," 1938. | |
| Folder | 20 | Falco ramenta. Figure 14, "Two New Species of Hawks from the Miocene of Nebraska," 1936. | |
| Folder | 21 | Gavia concinna. Figures 1-4, "Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States," 1940. | |
| Folder | 22 | Gavia paleodytes. Figures 10-11, "Fossil Birds from the Tertiary Deposits of Florida," 1943. | |
| Folder | 23 | Gaviella pusilla. Figures 5-6, "Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States," 1940. | |
| Folder | 24 | Geranoides jepseni. Figures 1-3, "Fossil Bird Remains from the Eocene of Wyoming," 1933. | |
| Folder | 25 | Gnotornis aramiellus. Figures 1-4, "Two New Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of South Dakota," 1942. | |
| Folder | 26 | Grus grus. Figure not numbered, "Avian Remains from the Pleistocene of Central Java," 1940. | |
| Folder | 27 | Grus nannodes. Figures 1-3, "A Fossil Crane from the Pliocene of Kansas," 1930. | |
| Folder | 28 | Gymnogyps californianus. Figures 4-5 and plate IV, "The Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida," 1931. | |
| Folder | 29 | Leptotila titan. Figure not numbered, "Avian Remains from the Pleistocene of Central Java," 1940. | |
| Folder | 30 | Micocepphus mcclungi. Figures 11-14, "Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States," 1940. | |
| Folder | 31 | Minerva saurodosis. Figures 1-2, "A Fossil Owl from the Bridger Eocene," 1922. | |
| Folder | 32 | Moris vagabundus. Figure 4, "Fossil Bird Re mains from the Temblor Formation near Bakers field, California," 1930. | |
| Folder | 33 | Neocathartes grallator. Figures 1-26, "A New Terrestrial Vulture from the Upper Eocene Deposits of Wyoming," 1944. | |
| Folder | 34 | Neophrontops vetustus. Figure not numbered, "Two More Fossil Hawks from the Miocene of Nebraska," 1943. | |
| Folder | 35 | Nesotrochis debooyi. Figures 1-7, "Bones of Birds Collected by Theodoor de Booy from Kitchen Midden Deposits in the Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix," 1918. | |
| Folder | 36 | Ortalis tantala. Figures 10-14, "A Fossil Gallinaceous Bird from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska," 1933. | |
| Folder | 37 | Palaealectoris incertus. Figures 1-3, "Two Fossil Birds from the Miocene of Nebraska," 1930. | |
| Folder | 38 | Palaeastur atavus. Figure not numbered, "Two More Fossil Hawks from the Miocene of Nebraska," 1943. | |
| Folder | 39 | Palaeoborus howardae. Figure 13, "Two New Species of Hawks from the Miocene of Nebraska," 1936. | |
| Folder | 40 | Palaeocrex fax. Figures 15-18, "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado," 1927. | |
| Folder | 41 | Palaeogyps prodromus. Figures 7-14, "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado," 1927. | |
| Folder | 42 | Palaeonossax senectus. Figure 7, "A Fossil Guan from the Oligocene of South Dakota," 1956. | |
| Folder | 43 | Palaeoplancus sternbergi. Figures 1-19, "An Oligocene Eagle from Wyoming," 1933. | |
| Folder | 44 | Palaeorallus troxelli. Figures 26-29, "Two Primitive Rails from the Eocene of Colorado and Wyoming," 1931. | |
| Folder | 45 | Pelecanus halieus. Figures 1-2, "Pliocene Bird Remains from Idaho," 1933. | |
| Folder | 46 | Phalacrocorax auritus. Figures 3-4, "Pliocene Bird Remains from Idaho," 1933. | |
| Folder | 47 | Phasmagyps patritus. Figures 1-6, "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado," 1927. | |
| Folder | 48 | Podilymbus magnus. Figures 8-13, "A record of the Fossil Grebe Colymbus parvus, from the Pliocene of California, with Remarks on Other American Fossils of This Family," 1937. | |
| Folder | 49 | Presbychen abarus. Figures 5-7, "Fossil Bird Remains from the Temblor Formation near Bakersfield, California," 1930. | |
| Folder | 50 | Protostrix leptosteus, Figures 1-5, "The Systematic Position of Bubo leptosteus Marsh," 1937. | |
| Folder | 51 | Protostrix lydekkeri. Figures A-E, "The Status of Minerva antique, Aquila ferox, and Aquila lydekkeri as Fossil Birds," 1933. | |
| Folder | 52 | Protostrix mimica. Figures 4-5, "Another Fossil Owl from the Eocene of Wyoming," 1938. | |
| Folder | 53 | Puffinus inceptor. Figures 1-3, "Fossil Bird Remains from the Temblor Formation near Bakersfield, California," 1930. | |
| Folder | 54 | Querquedula floridana. Figures 2-3, "The Avi fauna of the Pleistocene in Florida," 1931. | |
| Folder | 55 | Rhegminoris calobates. Figures 1-5, "Fossil Birds from the Tertiary Deposits of Florida," 1943. | |
| Folder | 56 | Sula avita. Figures 2-3, "A Miocene Booby and Other Records from the Calvert Formation of Maryland," 1938. | |
| Folder | 57 | Telecrex grangeri. Figure 6, "Fossil Birds from Mongolia and China," 1934. | |
| Folder | 58 | Teratornis merriami. Figures 6-12 and plates 51-52, "The Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida," 1931. | |
| Folder | 59 | Titanohierax gloveralleni. Figures 4-9, "Bird Remains from Cave Deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas," 1937. | |
| Folder | 60 | Tyto pollens. Figures 10-16, "Bird Remains from Cave Deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas," 1937. |
This series consists of desk diaries and appointment books kept by Alexander Wetmore from 1917 to 1956, not inclusive. The volumes for 1917, 1919-1920, 1923, 1926-1930, and 1953-1956 contain brief accounts of daily activities, research interests, field work, and social events. The volumes for the years 1932-1950 are primarily appointment books kept by Wetmore's secretary.
Arranged Chronologically
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| Folders | 1-7 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1917, 1919-1920, 1923, 1926-1928 |
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| Folders | 1-6 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1929-1930, 1932-1934. Two volumes exist for 1929. |
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| Folders | 1-5 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1935-1939 |
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| Folders | 1-5 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1940-1944 |
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| Folders | 1-5 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1945-1949 |
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| Folders | 1-5 | Desk diaries and appointment books, 1950, 1953-1956 |
This series provides extensive photographic documentation of all aspects of Wetmore's professional career. Included are voluminous photographs taken by Wetmore on field trips and scientific expeditions; photographs documenting his attendance at scientific meetings, official functions, and social gatherings; photographs from his boyhood in North Freedom, Wisconsin; photographs of events in which he participated during his Smithsonian career; portraits of Wetmore; photographs of Wetmore with family, friends, and colleagues; and photographs of professional colleagues collected by Wetmore.
Many of the photographs are found in albums maintained by Wetmore from 1901 to 1969. The albums are organized in two categories--"field work and travel" and "miscellaneous." Albums in the first category contain photographs of Wetmore in the field, expedition colleagues, field operations, and native people, fauna, flora, and physiography of regions visited. Also included are photographs taken by Wetmore at meetings of the International Ornithological Congress in Europe. The "miscellaneous" albums are more personal in nature, but also depict field work and travel, especially to attend meetings of the American Ornithologists' Union. They also provide many photographs of annual outings of the Washington Biologists' Field Club.
Other photographic media represented in the series include lantern slides, 35mm color slides, motion pictures (including a National Geographic Society film on Barro Colorado Island), and negatives.
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Photograph Albums--Field Work and Travel
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Photographs--Alexander Wetmore
| Folders | 1-2 | Alexander Wetmore. Portraits, 1936, 1943-1944, 1947, 1966, 1970, and undated. | |
| Folder | 3 | _________________. In taxidermy shop, University of Kansas, circa 1907. | |
| Folder | 4 | _________________. Field work, 1910, 1918, 1923, 1926, 1932, 1944, 1950, and undated. | |
| Folder | 5 | _________________. Social occasions, 1944, 1970. | |
| Folder | 6 | _________________. At Ripon College to receive Honorary Doctor of Science degree, 6 June 1959. | |
| Folder | 7 | _________________. Working in the Division of Birds, 1969, and undated. | |
| Folder | 8 | _________________. Birding, undated. | |
| Folder | 9 | _________________. With Beatrice Thielen Wetmore, 1959. | |
| Folder | 10 | _________________. With Beatrice Thielen Wetmore and Carl Milton Johnson, undated. | |
| Folder | 11 | _________________. With Stewart Anderson, 1944. | |
| Folder | 12 | _________________. With Lyman J. Briggs and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 1956. | |
| Folder | 13 | _________________. With Herbert Friedmann, Herbert Girton Deignan, Jane Love, and Samuel A. Arny, 1951. | |
| Folder | 14 | _________________. With William D. Hassett, 1951. | |
| Folder | 15 | _________________. With Carl Milton Johnson, undated. | |
| Folder | 16 | _________________. With Harley M. Kilgore, 1952. | |
| Folder | 17 | _________________. With Ernest Middlemiss, 1957. | |
| Folder | 18 | _________________. With Joseph P. E. Morrison, 1944. | |
| Folder | 19 | _________________. With George R. Myers, 1944. | |
| Folder | 20 | _________________. With Jose Manuel Ortega, 1950. | |
| Folder | 21 | _________________. With Harold S. Palmer, 1923. | |
| Folder | 22 | _________________. With William H. Phelps, Jr., and S. Dillon Ripley, 1952. | |
| Folder | 23 | _________________. With Charles E. Reno, 1923. | |
| Folder | 24 | _________________. With Sievart Allen Rohwer, 1928. | |
| Folder | 25 | _________________. With Smithsonian staff, 1932. | |
| Folder | 26 | _________________. With George E. Watson, undated. |
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Photographs--Individuals
| Folder | 1 | Abbott, William Louis, undated | |
| Folder | 2 | Aldrich, J. A., undated | |
| Folder | 3 | Altsheler, Brent I., 1936 | |
| Folder | 4 | Anderson, Stewart, 1944 | |
| Folder | 5 | Arkens, C. E., 1871, 1915, 1925 | |
| Folder | 6 | Baird, Spencer F., undated | |
| Folder | 7 | Bannermann, David A., 1934 | |
| Folder | 8 | Barbour, Thomas, 1936 | |
| Folder | 9 | Bartsch, Paul, undated | |
| Folder | 10 | Beal, Foster Ellenborough Lascelles, 1916 | |
| Folder | 11 | Beckham, Charles Wickliffe, 1884 | |
| Folder | 12 | Bent, Arthur Cleveland, undated | |
| Folder | 13 | Blackburne, William H. (with William M. Mann), undated | |
| Folder | 14 | Boving, Adam Giede, 1940. |
Broeckhuysen, G. J. See under E. Middlemiss.
| Folder | 15 | Brooks, Allan C., undated | |
| Folder | 16 | Bunker, Charles Dean, 1948 | |
| Folder | 17 | Buxton, Eugenia, undated | |
| Folder | 18 | Cammerer, Arno B., 1939 | |
| Folder | 19 | Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, Jr., 1942 | |
| Folder | 20 | Chapman, Frank Michler, 1929 | |
| Folder | 21 | Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, undated | |
| Folder | 22 | Deane, Ruthven, undated | |
| Folder | 23 | Deignan, Herbert Girton, 1948 | |
| Folder | 24 | Delacour, Jean Theodore (with A. Ezra), 1938 | |
| Folder | 25 | Drake, Claude H., 1956 |
Ezra, Alfred. See under Jean Delacour.
| Folder | 26 | Fisher, Franklin L., 1943 | |
| Folder | 27 | Fleming, James Henry, 1930 | |
| Folder | 28 | Graf, John Enos, undated | |
| Folder | 29 | Grinnell, Joseph, 1930 | |
| Folder | 30 | Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1938 | |
| Folder | 31 | Harlan, John G., Jr., 1945 | |
| Folder | 32 | Hollister, Ned, undated | |
| Folder | 33 | Hough, Walter (with Neil M. Judd), 1935 | |
| Folder | 34 | Howard, Leland Ossian, undated | |
| Folder | 35 | Hudson, William Henry, 1868 | |
| Folder | 36 | Humphrey, William Jackson, undated |
Judd, Neil M. See under Walter Hough.
| Folder | 37 | Kalmbach, Edwin R., 1941 | |
| Folder | 38 | Kellogg, Vernon L., undated | |
| Folder | 39 | Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1921 | |
| Folder | 40 | Mann, William M. (with Lucile Quarry Mann), undated. See also under William H. Blackburne. | |
| Folder | 41 | Mathews, Gregory Macalister, undated | |
| Folder | 42 | McAtee, Waldo Lee, 1927 | |
| Folder | 43 | Merrill, George P., undated | |
| Folder | 44 | Middlemiss, Ernest (with J. W. Broeckhuysen), 1957 | |
| Folder | 45 | Miller, Loye Holmes (with E. Stresemann), 1962 | |
| Folder | 46 | Morales, A., 1943 | |
| Folder | 47 | Morrison, Joseph P. E., undated | |
| Folder | 48 | Pearl, Raymond, undated | |
| Folder | 49 | Phelps, William H., undated | |
| Folder | 50 | Preble, Edward Alexander, 1923 | |
| Folder | 51 | Ridgway, John L. (with Mrs. Robert Ridgway), 1884 | |
| Folder | 52 | Ridgway, Robert, 1884, and undated |
Ridgway, Mrs. Robert. See under J. L. Ridgway.
| Folder | 53 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1883 | |
| Folder | 54 | Rowe, Leo S., 1936 | |
| Folder | 55 | Ruthven, Alexander Grant, undated | |
| Folder | 56 | Sage, John Hall, undated | |
| Folder | 57 | Schorger, Arlie William, 1946. Photograph of Schorger receiving honorary Doctor of Science degree on behalf of Wetmore from the University of Wisconsin. | |
| Folder | 58 | Schwarz, Eugene Amandus, undated | |
| Folder | 59 | Scollick, Joseph William, circa 1920 | |
| Folder | 60 | Snodgrass, Robert Evans, undated | |
| Folder | 61 | Sprunt, Alexander, Jr., undated | |
| Folder | 62 | Stejneger, Leonhard, 1884, 1937 |
Stresemann, Erwin. See under L. H. Miller.
| Folder | 63 | Stone, Witmer, undated | |
| Folder | 64 | Swales, Bradshaw Hall, undated | |
| Folder | 65 | Tothill, John, undated | |
| Folder | 66 | von Ihering, Herman, 1919 | |
| Folder | 67 | Walcott, Charles D., undated | |
| Folder | 68 | Wheeler, William Morton, undated | |
| Folder | 69 | Zetek, James, circa 1955, and undated | |
| Folder | 70 | Unidentified individual, undated | |
| Folder | 71 | Unidentified historical photographs, undated |
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Photographs--Groups, Events, and Places
| Folder | 1 | Abbot, Charles G. Birthday Celebration, 1942. | |
| Folder | 2 | Acacia Fraternity, University of Kansas, 1910-1911 | |
| Folder | 3 | American Ornithologists' Union Check-list Committee, 18 October 1948 | |
| Folder | 4 | Baird Ornithological Club, 108th meeting, 14 January 1948 | |
| Folder | 5 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad presentation of the "Royal Blue" model to the USNM, 22-23 March 1937 | |
| Folder | 6 | Brazilian Technical Mission, 18 December 1944 | |
| Folder | 7 | Bureau of Biological Survey staff, July 1933 | |
| Folder | 8 | Chilean Technical Commission, January 1946 | |
| Folder | 9 | Cleveland Zoo. Dedication of Bird House, 19 October 1950. | |
| Folder | 10 | Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 75th Anniversary Celebration, 29 September 1950. | |
| Folder | 11 | Cosmos Club Anniversary dinner, 16 November 1964 | |
| Folder | 12 | Explorers' Club dinner, 19 January 1946 | |
| Folder | 13 | Explorers' Club dinner, 2 November 1962 | |
| Folder | 14 | George Washington University. Presentation of the Alumni Award of Achievement, 30 May 1945. | |
| Folder | 15 | Globe-Wernicke Company presentation of first vertical letter file to the USNM, undated | |
| Folder | 16 | Gorgas Memorial Institute presentation to Lister Hill, 1961 | |
| Folder | 17 | International Ornithological Committee, Ithaca, New York, 22 June 1962 | |
| Folder | 18 | XIII International Ornithological Congress, Ithaca, New York, June 1962 | |
| Folder | 19 | XIV International Ornithological Congress, Ox ford, 26 June 1966 | |
| Folder | 20 | XV International Ornithological Congress, Amsterdam, 3 September 1970 | |
| Folder | 21 | Mann, William M. Luncheon in honor of, 29 October 1956. | |
| Folder | 22 | National Academy of Sciences meeting with President Eisenhower, circa 1950s | |
| Folder | 23 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1946, 1948, 1950 | |
| Folder | 24 | National Geographic Society "La Venta Head" Exhibit, 5 October 1943 | |
| Folder | 25 | National Geographic Society luncheon for General H. H. Arnold, 13 February 1946 | |
| Folder | 26 | National Geographic Society Research Committee, 30 June 1964 | |
| Folder | 27 | Presentation of the Pitcairn Autogiro to the USNM, 22 July 1931 | |
| Folder | 28 | Presentation of the X-1 airplane to the Smithsonian Institution, 26 August 1950 | |
| Folder | 29 | Reception honoring Wetmore's 25th anniversary at the Smithsonian Institution, 10 April 1950 | |
| Folder | 30 | Smithsonian Institution - Scientific Monthly salon, 27 October 1947 | |
| Folder | 31 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, November 1971 | |
| Folder | 32 | Stanavo Lockheed Vega presentation to the USNM, 5 February 1931 | |
| Folder | 33 | Smithsonian Award Ceremony, 22 January 1951 | |
| Folder | 34 | Smithsonian Bird Gallery, 1885 | |
| Folder | 35 | Smithsonian Building, 1938 | |
| Folder | 36 | Stinson Air Mail Pickup model presentation to the USNM, 12 August 1952 | |
| Folder | 37 | "Third Monday Group" dinner in honor of Wetmore's 88th birthday, 17 June 1974 | |
| Folder | 38 | Warner Brothers presentation of the first equipment for commercial projection of sound motion pictures to the USNM, 24 July 1946 | |
| Folder | 39 | Unidentified group. Possibly at the International Congress of Zoology, Budapest, 1927. |
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Photographs--Oversize
| Folder | 1 | American Ornithologists' Union. Founders and officers, 1883. | |
| Folder | 2 | American Society of Mammalogists, 1925 | |
| Folder | 3 | Bush, Vannevar, 1945 (drawing) | |
| Folder | 4 | Cosmos Club. Past presidents, 1947. | |
| Folder | 5 | Explorers' Club dinners and events, undated | |
| Folder | 6 | Guajoia Expedition, 1941 | |
| Folder | 7 | National Geographic Society, Board of Trustees, meetings and events, 1946, 1954-1955, 1974 | |
| Folders | 8-10 | Pan American Union meetings, 1933-1946 | |
| Folder | 11 | Selous, F. C., 1904 | |
| Folder | 12 | Smithsonian Institution staff members, 1932 | |
| Folder | 13 | Tanager Expedition, 1923. Officers and crew. | |
| Folder | 14 | Torre, Carlos de la Y de la Huerta, 1941 | |
| Folder | 15 | Vinson, Fred M., undated | |
| Folder | 16 | Wetmore, Alexander. Grade school graduating class, North Freedom, Wisconsin, undated. | |
| Folder | 17 | _____________. Portrait by Albert Murray, 1959. | |
| Folder | 18 | _____________. Presentation of the Arthur A. Allen Award, 17 October 1970. | |
| Folder | 19 | _____________. Examining birds, circa 1960. | |
| Folder | 20 | Wetmore Glacier, undated | |
| Loose | Wetmore, Alexander. Photomechanical printing block, circa 1940s. |
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Lantern Slides--Field Work
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Lantern Slides--Miscellaneous
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| Folder | 1 | Plates copied from Rabie's "Water Colors of the Birds of Haiti" |
35 mm color slides
| Folders | 2-3 | Panama, 1944 | |
| Folder | 4 | Plummers Island, Maryland, 1944 | |
| Folder | 5 | Africa, 1957 | |
| Folder | 6 | Shenandoah National Park (Virginia), 1957 | |
| Folder | 7 | Panama, 1951, 1958 | |
| Folders | 8-11 | Panama, 1958 | |
| Folder | 12 | Wetmore's office in the National Museum of Natural History, 1977 |
Motion Pictures [Originals Moved to Box 238]
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Negatives
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This series documents Alexander Wetmore's service as Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences' Daniel Giraud Elliot Fund Award Committee from 1947 to 1963. The records primarily consist of correspondence with committee members concerning the nomination and selection of candidates for the award. Also included are files created by Wetmore's predecessor, William King Gregory.
Arranged Chronologically
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| Folders | 1-3 | Elliot Fund Award Committee. Files of William King Gregory as Chairman, 1929-1947. | |
| Folders | 4-5 | __________________. Files of Alexander Wetmore as Chairman, 1947-1952. |
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| Folders | 1-6 | Elliot Fund Award Committee. Files of Alexander Wetmore as Chairman, 1953-1963. Of special interest is a copy of Arthur Cleveland Bent's acceptance speech on receiving the award. The speech contains information concerning Bent's "Life Histories of North American Birds." |
This series consists primarily of field records; specimen lists; published materials; maps; manuscripts of published and unpublished papers; notes; and related materials created and collected by Alexander Wetmore that document his research on recent and fossil birds. Also included are smaller amounts of correspondence, photographs, and drawings.
Of particular interest is a large file of unpublished manuscripts, speeches, and radio talks; a journal, correspondence, specimen lists, and notes documenting William Louis Abbott's field work in Haiti, 1916-1928; a journal kept by Watson M. Perrygo on a field expedition to Haiti in 1928-1929; diaries and photographs concerning the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930; and correspondence concerning Wetmore's study of avian fossils discovered by Louis S. B. Leakey.
Arranged Alphabetically
Box 227 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Aepyornis, 1967. Concerns the publication of Wetmore's paper, "Re-creating Madagascar's Giant Extinct Bird," National Geographic, 30 June 1967. Includes manuscript, page proof, color slides, sketches, and notes. | |
| Folder | 2 | Airline Accident, 1962-1963. Concerns Wetmore's investigation of the remains of a whistling swan involved in the crash of United Airlines flight 297 on November 23, 1962. | |
| Folder | 3 | Anous stolidus, 1949. Notes and lists. | |
| Folder | 4 | Araucana fowl, 1927, 1948, 1953-1954. Includes correspondence of Louis Sopata and Ottmar Wilhelm, articles, and newspaper clippings concerning domestic fowl. | |
| Folder | 5 | Argentina and Paraguay. Specimen lists, 1920. | |
| Folder | 6 | Barn owls, 1971-1974. Correspondence and news paper clippings concerning the reintroduction of barn owls in the towers of the Smithsonian Building. | |
| Folder | 7 | Batty, Joseph H., c. 1949-1956. Examination of collected data regarding birds in Panama. (Accession 07-077) | |
| Folder | 8 | Bermuda fossil birds, 1956-1960. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's work identifying fossil bird bones collected in Bermuda. Correspondents include William H. Sutcliffe, Jr., and David Wingate. | |
| Folder | 9 | Bikini Atoll. Specimen lists and photographs of birds, 1946-1947. | |
| Folder | 10 | Bird banding records, 1915-1916. Consists mostly of records kept during Wetmore's field research in Utah, 1915-1916. Includes manuscript of "Migration Records from Wild Ducks and other Birds Banded in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah," U. S. Dept. Agric., Dept. Bull. no. 1145, May 10, 1923. | |
| Folder | 11 | Cuba, 1900, 1932-1934, 1937, 1940, 1945-1950, 1970, and undated. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts of manuscripts, reprints, and related materials mostly concerning the birds of Cuba. Correspondents include Thomas Barbour. |
Box 228 of 240
| Folders | 1-2 | Diagnostic classification. Specimen lists and notes used in Wetmore's, "A Systematic Classification for the Birds of the World." Originally published in 1930, with five revisions. | |
| Folder | 3 | Dovekie. Manuscript, "The Generic Name for the Dovekie or Little Auk," by Wetmore and George E. Watson, 1968. | |
| Folder | 4 | Fiji. Specimen lists, 1923-1924, and undated. | |
| Folder | 5 | Florida fossil birds, circa 1927-1931, and undated. Includes specimen lists; notes; photographs; plates from his "Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida," Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 85, no. 2, 13 April 1931; and a speech, "The Bird-Life of Ancient Florida," given before the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 23 October 1930. | |
| Folder | 6 | North American Fossil Birds, 1933 (Accession 05-045) | |
| Folder | 7 | Fossil bird eggs. Photographs, undated. | |
| Folder | 8 | Fossil feathers. Photographs, undated. | |
| Folder | 9 | Georgia fossil birds, 1965-1967. Notes, specimen lists, and a manuscript, "Pleistocene Aves from Ladds, Georgia," Bull. Georgia Acad. Sci., vol. 25, no. 3, June 1967. | |
| Folder | 10 | Guajira (Colombia). Correspondence, 1941-1942, 1945, 1949. | |
| Folder | 11 | _________________. Specimen lists and notes, 1941-1943, and undated. | |
| Folder | 12 | _________________. Published materials. | |
| Folder | 13 | _________________. Maps. |
Box 229 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Haiti. Journal of William Louis Abbott, circa 1918-1919. | |
| Folder | 2 | _____. Correspondence between William Louis Abbott and Charles Wallace Richmond concerning Abbott's field work, 1916-1922. Originals and copies. | |
| Folder | 3 | _____. Specimen lists and notes of William Louis Abbott on Haitian flora and fauna, circa 1916-1928. Originals and copies. | |
| Folder | 4 | _____. Correspondence, 1929-1930, 1966. Correspondents include Glover Morrill Allen, Arthur J. Poole, and Emery Clarence Leonard. | |
| Folder | 5 | _____. Specimen lists and notes, 1927, 1929, and undated. | |
| Folder | 6 | _____. Maps. | |
| Folder | 7 | _____. Journal of Watson M. Perrygo, 1928-1929. | |
| Folder | 8 | _____. Photographs, 1927, and undated. Consists mostly of photographs from Wetmore's 1927 expedition to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. | |
| Folder | 9 | _____. Plates from "Additional Notes on the Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic," by Wetmore and Frederick C. Lincoln, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 82, Art. 25, 4 Dec 1933. | |
| Folder | 10 | _____. Published materials. | |
| Folder | 11 | Haitian cave specimen drawings, undated | |
| Folder | 12 | Hawaiian bird reservations. Maps and charts, undated. |
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| Folder | 1 | Hawaiian bird reservations. Publications. | |
| Folder | 2 | Insecticides, 1929, 1932 | |
| Folder | 3 | Irrisor. Notes and drawings, 1923-1924. | |
| Folder | 4 | Ivory-bill woodpecker, 1968. Correspondence with George Heinzman concerning his discovery of Ivory-bill woodpecker feathers in Florida. | |
| Folder | 5 | Jamaica. Publications. | |
| Folder | 6 | Johnston Island, 1931, 1964, 1969, and undated. Includes a manuscript, "A Scientific Survey of Johnston Island." Apparently unpublished. | |
| Folder | 7 | Land birds of the Washington region, circa 1930s. Lists, notes, maps, published materials, and a manuscript (apparently unpublished). | |
| Folder | 8 | Lee Creek Project, 1973, 1975-1976, and undated. Includes a typescript copy of "A Preliminary Survey of a Late Miocene Marine Avifauna from Lee Creek, North Carolina," by Wetmore and Storrs L. Olson. | |
| Folder | 9 | Manuscripts, 1927, 1967-1968, 1971-1972. Correspondence with journals and publishers concerning the publication of Wetmore's articles and reviews. | |
| Folder | 10 | Maryland bird records, 1931, 1937, 1968 | |
| Folder | 11 | The Migration of Birds, 1924-1930, 1934-1935, 1937, 1939. Correspondence concerning a series of lectures presented by Wetmore at the Lowell Institute, 1925, and their subsequent publication by the Harvard University Press. | |
| Folder | 12 | ________________, 1926. Page proof and figures, pp. 1-102. |
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| Folder | 1 | The Migration of Birds, 1926. Page proof and figures, pp. 103-217. | |
| Folder | 2 | Migration of birds. Notes on a new theory, 1917. | |
| Folder | 3 | Migration of birds in South America. Notes, undated. | |
| Folder | 4 | Migratory bird cases, 1919-1924, 1928-1929, 1946, and undated. Mostly concerns Wetmore's work identifying birds taken in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. | |
| Folder | 5 | Montserrat, West Indies. Specimen lists and notes, 1924, and undated. | |
| Folder | 6 | Notes and specimen lists from Biological Survey research, 1912-1924 | |
| Folder | 7 | Olduvai avian fossil material, 1962-1963, 1967-1968, 1976. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's study of avian fossils excavated by Louis S. B. Leakey. Correspondents include Leakey, Mary D. Leakey, and William Pierce Brodkorb. | |
| Folder | 8 | Pacific Islands. Specimen lists and publications, 1972, and undated. | |
| Folder | 9 | Panama, 1953-1954, 1964, 1973, and undated | |
| Folder | 10 | Paracutin Volcano, 1943-1945. Reports on and photographs of the eruption of the Mexican volcano. | |
| Folder | 11 | Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, 1930. Diaries of Watson M. Perrygo and Lee H. Parish (copy). | |
| Folder | 12 | _________________. Photographs. | |
| Folder | 13 | _________________. Plates from "Birds Collected in Cuba and Haiti by the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition of 1930," Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 81, art. 2, 22 July 1932. |
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| Folder | 1 | Pinchot South Seas Expedition, 1929. Notes and photographs. | |
| Folder | 2 | Plummers Island, Maryland. Check-list of birds, 1967. | |
| Folder | 3 | Popular manual of bird study. Notes, undated. | |
| Folder | 4 | Puerto Rico. Correspondence, 1912-1913, 1921-1924, 1939-1940. Correspondents include Ludlow Griscom and Frederick A. Potts. | |
| Folder | 5 | ___________. Manuscript, "Puerto Rico," circa 1940. Apparently unpublished. | |
| Folder | 6 | ___________. Maps. | |
| Folder | 7 | ___________. Notebook, "Notes on Porto Rican Birds," undated (probably 1911-1912). | |
| Folder | 8 | ___________. Publications. | |
| Folder | 9 | ___________. Specimen lists and notes, circa 1911-1912, and undated. | |
| Folder | 10 | Rallidae. Specimen lists, notes, and drawings, undated. | |
| Folder | 11 | Rhynchopsitta. Notes and drawings, 1918, and undated. | |
| Folder | 12 | Smithsonian Scientific Series. Photographs used in Warm-Blooded Vertebrates, pt. 1, "Birds," 1931. Most of the photographs are from Wetmore's field work in Argentina, 1920. | |
| Folder | 13 | Snowy Owls, 1926-1927. Correspondence concerning a large migration of snowy owls to the Mid-Atlantic region during the winter of 1926-1927. |
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| Folder | 1 | Spain. Manuscript, "Through the Cantabrian Mountains of Northern Spain," 1931. Apparently intended for publication in National Geographic. | |
| Folder | 2 | _____. Publications. | |
| Folder | 3 | Spanish lessons, 1940, and undated | |
| Folder | 4 | Symposium, "The Panama Biota: Some Observations Prior to a Sea-Level Canal," 4 March 1971, National Museum of Natural History. Includes a copy of Wetmore's paper on the birds of Panama. | |
| Folder | 5 | Trogonidae. Notes and drawings, 1917-1918, and undated. | |
| Folders | 6-7 | Unpublished manuscripts, speeches, and radio talks, 1922, 1926-1928, 1934-1942, 1945-1957, 1962, 1967, 1972 |
Box 234 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Unpublished manuscripts, speeches, and radio talks, undated | |
| Folder | 2 | Utah. Notes, specimen lists, and publications, undated. | |
| Folders | 3-5 | ____. Report on the birds of Utah, circa 1916. Apparently unpublished. | |
| Folder | 6 | Veracruz. Manuscript, in Spanish, "Observaciones sobre la Ornitologia de la zona sur de Veracruz, Mexico"; notes; maps; photographs; copies of field notes and collecting data of Edward William Nelson and Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr.; and published materials, circa 1940, and undated. | |
| Folder | 7 | Virginia bird records, 1933-1938, 1967-1968, and undated |
Arranged Alphabetically
Box 235 of 240
| Folder | 1 | Acacia Fraternity. Membership, circa 1910. | |
| Folder | 2 | American Association for the Advancement of Science. Membership, 26 April 1917. | |
| Folder | 3 | __________________. Fellow, 24 April 1927. | |
| Folder | 4 | __________________. Fifty Year Member, 2 November 1967. | |
| Folder | 5 | American Society of Mammalogists. Life membership, 13 September 1928. | |
| Folder | 6 | Anteaters Association. Membership, 1 November 1951. | |
| Folder | 7 | Aububon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States. Paul Bartsch Award, 1 October 1964. | |
| Folder | 8 | Biological Society of Washington. Life membership, 31 March 1932. | |
| Folder | 9 | Bird Fanciers Association of New York. Honorary membership, 9 June 1944. | |
| Folder | 10 | California Academy of Sciences. Honorary membership, 17 January 1946. | |
| Folder | 11 | Cooper Ornithological Society. Honorary member ship, 1956. | |
| Folder | 12 | Domain of Neptunus Rex, 10 June 1920 | |
| Folder | 13 | Explorers Club. Membership, 15 December 1927. | |
| Folder | 14 | George Washington University, Omicron Delta Kappa. Membership, 4 May 1950. | |
| Folder | 15 | __________________. Alumni Achievement Award, 13 May 1945. | |
| Folder | 16 | George Washington University. Alumni Service Award, 9 May 1962. | |
| Folder | 17 | _________________. Alumni Association life membership, undated. | |
| Folder | 18 | Herpetologists League. Honorary Fellow, 14 November 1946. | |
| Folder | 19 | National Geographic Society. Membership, 18 January 1927. | |
| Folder | 20 | National Speleological Society. Fellow, 20 June 1967. | |
| Folder | 21 | New York Academy of Sciences. Membership, 5 February 1940. | |
| Folder | 22 | Research Corporation. Certificate of Gratitude, 10 February 1953. | |
| Folder | 23 | Ripon College. Honorary Doctor of Science degree, 6 June 1959. | |
| Folder | 24 | Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. Fellow, 3 May 1945. | |
| Folder | 25 | Smithsonian Institution. Forty years of service, 9 July 1963. | |
| Folder | 26 | Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural Felipe Poey. Honorary membership, 1938. | |
| Folder | 27 | Sociedade Protectora dos Animaes de Santos e Sao Vicente, 4 October 1926 | |
| Folder | 28 | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Honorary life membership, 31 October 1961. | |
| Folder | 29 | United States Department of State. Certificate of membership, Organizing Committee for the Inter-American Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources, Denver, September 1948. | |
| Folder | 30 | __________________. Certificate of membership, United States delegation to the X International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, Sweden, June 1950. | |
| Folder | 31 | U.S.S. Valley Forge. Honorary crewman, undated. | |
| Folder | 32 | University of Kansas. Certificate of Graduation, 18 January 1912. | |
| Folder | 33 | _________________. Life membership, 31 May 1935. | |
| Folder | 34 | _________________. Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, 9 June 1941. | |
| Folder | 35 | _________________. Gold Medal Club, undated. | |
| Folder | 36 | University of Wisconsin. Honorary Doctor of Science degree, 25 May 1946. | |
| Folder | 37 | Washington Academy of Sciences. Membership, 25 March 1918. | |
| Folder | 38 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. Honorary membership, 1946. | |
| Folder | 39 | "Wright Flyer." Original fabric from the Wright Flyer and a certificate of authenticity, undated. | |
| Folder | 40 | Zoological Society of London. Corresponding membership, 1927. |
Box 236 of 240
Oversize
This series consists of typescript copies of correspondence written by John Xantus to Spencer F. Baird detailing his collecting activities in Lower California, 1857-1861. The typescripts were prepared by Wetmore's secretary, Louise M. Pearson in the late 1930s.
The original Xantus letters can be found in the Smithsonian Archives, Record Unit 7212.
Box 237 of 240
| Folder | 1 | February 1857 - April 1858 | |
| Folder | 2 | April 1858 - February 1859 | |
| Folder | 3 | March 1859 - December 1860 | |
| Folder | 4 | January 1861 - October 1878 |
Most of these materials were added to this collection after processing and are filed in the following boxes.
Box 238 of 240
Original motion pictures removed from Box 210.
Box 239 of 240
Box 240 of 240
Contact us at osiaref@si.edu
Revised: April 27, 2007