Record Unit 7006

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 concerning 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Folders 1-4 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon, 1951-1963, 1969, 1971. Correspondents include Henry Allen Moe and James F. Mathias.

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.

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.

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 (postponed). This Congress was planned to be convened 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Folders 1-6 National Geographic Society. Committee for Research and Exploration, 1966-1974.

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.

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.

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.

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 reports 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.