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Record Unit 7073

Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927

William Healey Dall Papers, circa 1839-1858, 1862-1927

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General Information About This Collection
Repository:	Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:	Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Title:	William Healey Dall Papers
Dates:	circa 1839-1858, 1862-1927
Quantity:	32.36 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (51 document boxes) (1 half document box) (4 5x8 boxes) (3 oversize folders)
Collection:	Record Unit 7073
Language of Materials:	English
Summary:	These papers provide comprehensive documentation of Dall's personal and scientific activities from 1865 to 1927, including diaries, scrapbooks, field notes, financial accounts, specimen collection notebooks, maps, and incoming and outgoing correspondence created during the Western Union Telegraph Expedition and pertaining to Alaskan towns, topography, mineral resources, flora and fauna of Alaska, and customs of Russian-Americans and Alaskan Indians; Robert Kennicott notes, correspondence, map, information concerning Kennicott's death, and description of the intrigue among members of the Expedition; diaries, correspondence, financial accounts, specimen collection notebooks, and field notes concerning Dall's explorations in Alaska, 1871-1876, 1879-1880, under the United States Coast Survey; material on Dall's explorations on the Pacific Coast and in Florida for the United States Geological Survey; reports to Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard regarding the Alaska-Canada boundary question, 1885, 1888; reports prepared for the Coast Survey, Geological Survey, and the National Museum's Division of Mollusks; correspondence with colleagues, administrators of scientific and educational organizations, editors, publishers, family members, friends, collectors of mollusca, and scientific societies, concerning membership and membership meetings, identification of fossil collections, publications and manuscripts, personal and family problems, student theses, appointment to the Geological Survey, honorary degrees, politics, economics, social conditions in Washington, D.C., and Dall's personal views regarding his professional competency and social status; diaries, 1865-1927; awards; photographs; publications; newspapers and newspaper clippings concerning Alaska; maps; poetry written by Dall's father; genealogy of Dall and his family; and autobiographical material.

Historical Note

Dean of Alaskan explorations and one of the last of the disappearing class of "systematic naturalists," which included Agassiz, Baird, and Audubon, William H. Dall (1845-1927) was born in Boston to Charles Henry Appleton Dall, a Unitarian minister, and Caroline Wells (Healey), a feminist and publicist. Educated in the public school system, Dall did not go on to attend Harvard after graduating from the Boston Latin School. Instead, he pursued his interests in zoology and medicine by studying under the guidance of Agassiz, Augustus A. Gould, and Jeffries Wyman. Dall's special interest in mollusca came about quite accidentally as a result of his reading Gould's Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts. Dall soon left for Chicago to earn his livelihood, and there he met Robert Kennicott and William Stimpson, both members of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, where Dall attended evenings to continue his scientific studies.

When Kennicott was given command of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska in 1865, whose mission was to find a means of establishing a communications system with Europe by way of Alaska, the Bering Straits, and Asia, Dall, aged twenty, was invited along as a member of the group's scientific party. Upon Kennicott's death in 1866, Dall was placed in charge of the Scientific Corps. When the expedition was abruptly terminated by the successful laying of the Atlantic cable, Dall volunteered to stay on an extra year in order to complete the scientific project. In 1871, Dall was appointed to the United States Coast Survey (USCS), under whose auspices he continued his studies on Alaska and the northern Pacific Coast. Dall left the USCS in 1884 to accept the rank of paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a position which he held until 1925.

Having forwarded fossil specimens he had collected as a youth to the Smithsonian Institution, and with the collections of the Alaskan expedition being sent there also, Dall, upon his arrival in Washington, D.C., in 1868, voluntarily began to assemble and describe the collections of mollusca and other organisms stored by the United States National Museum (USNM) while working on his publication regarding Alaska. In 1880, Dall was officially appointed honorary curator at the USNM, Division of Mollusks, a position he held until his death and without remuneration, as he could not be paid for both his work with the USGS and the USNM.

Dall was a prolific writer. Between his earliest writings on the Alaskan expedition in 1865 as a correspondent for the Alta California until his death in 1927, Dall published more than five-hundred scientific short papers. Among his larger works, Dall's Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, 6 volumes (1890-1903), is still considered the most important American publication on cenozoic molluscan paleontology. Dall's other writings include Alaska and its Resources (1870) and his biography, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1915). Among his honorary degrees and awards, Dall was awarded the Gold Medal by the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia (1899), for his work on paleontology; the Honorary Doctor of Science degree, University of Pennsylvania (1904); and the Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, George Washington University (1915).

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Descriptive Entry

This collection contains papers documenting the scientific and personal life of Dall, especially the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska (1865-1868). Included are daily diaries, 1865-1927; Western Union Telegraph Expedition material containing diaries, scrapbooks, field notes, financial accounts, specimen collection notebooks and incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding Alaskan towns, topography, mineral resources, biology and zoology of Alaska, customs of the Russian-Americans and Alaskan Indian natives, along with sketches of the latter, their housing, clothing and utensils; description of the intrigue among the members of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition; Robert Kennicott's field notes; Dall correspondence regarding Kennicott's leadership of the expedition; Dall and others regarding Kennicott's death; diaries, correspondence, financial accounts, specimen collection notebooks and field notes regarding Dall's explorations to Alaska (1871-1876, 1879-1880) under the United States Coast Survey, and his explorations to the Pacific coast and Florida under the United States Geological Survey; reports to Secretary of State, Thomas Francis Bayard, regarding the Alaska-Canada Boundary Question, 1885, 1888; reports for the United States Coast Survey, United States Geological Survey, Division of Cenozoic Paleontology, and United States National Museum, Division of Mollusks, regarding their progress under Dall's leadership; incoming and outgoing correspondence between Dall and his colleagues, administrators of scientific and educational organizations, editors, publishers, family members, friends, private collectors of mollusca, and scientific and social societies regarding membership and membership meetings, identification of fossil collections, publications and manuscripts, personal and family problems, student theses, appointment to the United States Geological Survey, honorary degrees, politics, economics, social conditions in Washington, D.C., and Dall's personal views regarding his own professional competency and social status; awards; photographs of Dall, his friends, and members of his expeditions; publications on mollusca, catalogues of mollusk lists, mollusk plates on Dall's Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, and his unpublished work on Hawaiian Island mollusca; Dall's manuscript biography of Spencer Fullerton Baird; Dall's publications and newspaper articles; poetry written by his father; and material on the genealogy of Dall and his family.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7073, William Healey Dall Papers

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Container List

Series 1

PUBLICATIONS, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, AWARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL.

Box 1

Journal articles other than Dall's, 1873-1926

Box 1 of 56

Dall Publications, "On Climatic Conditions at Nome, Alaska, during the Pliocene, and on a New Species of Pecten from the Nome Goldbearing Gravels, 1907;" "William More Gabb," 1909 (includes Boss, Kenneth J., et. al., The Zoological Taxa of William Healey Dall, 1968)

Box 1 of 56

Newspaper clippings, 1874-1926, including material on John Brooks Henderson, Jr., and Charles Torrey Simpson

Box 1 of 56

Newspaper articles regarding Dall and his mother, Caroline Healey Dall, 1865-1918

A clipping of the poem "The Sea is Thine, and Thou Madest It," by William Healy Dall. The poem was published in Christian Register on December 14, 1899. [Image no. SIA2012-8398]

Box 1 of 56

Photographs of the Wagner Free Institute of Science Medal awarded to Dall, 1899

Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia medal awarded to William Healey Dall for his investigations and writings in paleontology, 1899. [Image nos. SIA2012-8401 and SIA2012-8402]

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Photographs of Captain W. G. Hall, 1874, 1880

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Group photograph of Voringen expedition crew, Spitzbergen, no date

Group portrait of members of the U. S. Coastal Survey was taken as part of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska. Pictured are 5 men standing in back and 4 men sitting in front.

Box 1 of 56

Four Dall Photographs - On expedition, no date

Campsite of United States Coastal Survey, pictured are 4 men sitting in front of 3 tents. William Healey Dall is the third person from the left.

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Plate of Dall, 1915

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Dall, Biographical Memoranda [autobiographical], 1926

Box 1 of 56

Dall, "Memoranda for My Grandchildren" September 1926, includes interesting material on Abraham Lincoln's background gathered by Dall's mother who was asked to write a campaign biography for Lincoln. Material was subsequently burned, pp. 29-31; material regarding Charles Dickens, pp. 49-50; and a "Record of Association with Scientific Societies, degrees conferred, etc.," 1863-1926

Box 1 of 56

Biographical notes and Wall Street Journal obituary, March 30, 1927, manuscript.

Box 1 of 56

Series 2

SCRAPBOOKS, 1839, 1843, 1853, 1855-1856, 1858, 1865-1872, 1865-1867.

Box 2

Scrapbook and typewritten copies of same, 1839, 1843, 1853, 1855-1856, 1858, 1865-1872. Scrapbook containing memorabilia, bound and loose, including correspondence belonging to Dall's mother, Caroline Healey Dall, poems by his father, Charles Henry Appleton Dall, photograph engraving of Robert Kennicott, n.d., abstracts of scientific discoveries by Dall, newspaper clippings and personal correspondence to and from Dall regarding personal and scientific matters to relatives, friends, and colleagues pertaining mostly to the Western Union Telegraph Expedition (W.U.T.E.) to Russian-America, 1865-1868. Material includes the following:

Engraving of Robert Kennicott done by the Western Engraving Co. Chicago, undated. [Image no. SIA2011-1226]

Box 2 of 56

Dall to his mother and sister Sadie regarding his voyage from New York to San Francisco, 3/27/1865 - 4/27/1865;

Kennicott to Madam [Caroline Healey Dall] expressing admiration for Dall, 7/11/1865;

Dall as correspondent for the Alta California newspaper to his editor regarding W.U.T.E. plans, political and commercial arrangement in Alaska and the Russian-American Company, and the social customs of Sitka, 8/19/1865, 9/6/1865;

Dall to his father regarding the ill will and political machinations among W.U.T.E. members and the customs of Russian and Alaskan natives, 9/19/1865;

Dall, "Note on Octopus Punctatus, Gabb," from the proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, 3/5/1866;

Dall, "On a New Subfamily of Fluniatile Mollusca," from the proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, 5/21/1866;

Dall to George C. Walker, President of the Chicago Academy of Sciences regarding the expedition, 6/8/1866;

Dall to unknown, regarding his ambitions and position with the expedition; a self-portrait, 6/15/1866;

Newspaper article regarding a letter from Dall to Jonathan Young Scammon, President of the Board of Trustees, Chicago Academy of Sciences, on the death of Kennicott, 9/26/1866;

Dall to his mother and Lizzie [Elizabeth Merriam] regarding his personal feelings on Kennicott's death, 9/26/1866, 9/29/1866;

Dall to his father regarding his belief that William H. Ennis's actions killed Kennicott, 1/1/1867;

Dall to Spencer F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution, regarding use of his own funds in order to stay another winter in Alaska so as to complete part of the task assigned to the Scientific Corps, the flora and fauna of Alaska, provisions and stores necessary for survival and implements most desired by the natives for trading purposes, 9/28/1867, 8/21/1867;

Dall to his uncle regarding Alaskan terrain and his belief that William Henry Seward received the worst of the deal with Russia over the purchase of Alaska, 8/4/1867;

Review of Dall's Alaska and Its Resources, in the Norton Daily Advertiser, 6/18/1870;

Letters and Articles by Dr. Charles H. A. Dall (copies), 1865-1866, 1867-1868, 1869-1872 (including pre-1865 material);

Engraving of Robert Kennicott, n.d.

Scrapbook, 1865-1867, includes newspaper clippings, Western Union Telegraph Company expedition to Russian-America, progress reports and financial statements, and correspondence between Dall and Western Union Company representatives, friends and colleagues. Material includes the following:

Box 2 of 56

Newspaper clippings regarding California Academy of Natural Sciences meetings, Mining and Scientific Press, 1866;

Robert Edward Carter Stearns remarks on the death of Robert Kennicott, 10/15/1866;

Kennicott's appointment of Dall to direct Scientific operations while absent, 7/13/1865;

Letter appointing Dall acting surgeon of the flagship, 8/9/1865;

Spencer F. Baird to Dall, regarding scientific matters, specimen collections, and Kennicott's troubles, 1866, 1/7/1866;

Dall to Robert C. Walker, regarding the expedition's scientific projects, 6/8/1866;

Dall to G. H. Mumford, Director of the Western Union Telegraph Company, on the operations of the expedition, 7/1/1866.

Series 3

MEMORANDA, DEPARTMENT OF MOLLUSKS, 1880-1887. INCOMING AND OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, BOUND, 1866-1926.

Box 3

Bound volume, mostly incoming, 1871-1872, contains progress reports and financial statements pertaining to the United States Coast Survey expedition to the Aleutian Islands, along with correspondence to and from Dall, mostly regarding the expedition. Material includes the following:

Box 3 of 56

James Craig Watson, Professor at the Ann Arbor Observatory, regarding the recommendation of an astronomer, 4/15/1871;

John Daniel Runkle, President of M.I.T., on the recommendation of an astronomer, 4/22/1871;

Spencer F. Baird, regarding the gathering of scientific data on the fisheries along the Pacific Coast, 6/16/1871;

United States Coast Survey instructions, c. 1871;

Pay of officers and mess of the Navy attached to the U.S.C.S. vessels as issued on 11/30/1866;

Estimate of expenses of the hydrographic party on the coast of Alaska, c. 1871;

Joseph Henry, regarding the reprinting of a circular and good wishes for Dall's success on his expedition, 7/15/1871;

Notes by Dall on how to "Find the Velocities and Directions of the Under Currents," n.d.;

Salary of the Humboldt crew members, 8/28/1871;

Wages of the members on the expedition, 1871-1872;

Printed account of the losses incurred by the Chicago Academy of Sciences building due to fire, 10/30/1871;

Meteorological abstract, 1871-1872;

Estimation for fiscal year ending 6/1873;

Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent U.S.C.S., on the satisfactory job of his expedition, 6/19/1872.

Box 4

Bound volume, mostly incoming, 1872-1874. Material includes the following:

Box 4 of 56

Benjamin Peirce, regarding the survey of an intended site for the Pacific cable extending from the Aleutian Islands to Japan, 2/10/1873;

Expenditure estimates for the fiscal year ending 6/1874;

George Davidson, United States Coast Survey, in charge of the Pacific coast, regarding expedition instruction for 1873, 3/3/1873;

Record of Commerce in Alaska, 1867-1873;

Dall to Jean Louis Agassiz, regarding geological information pertaining to Alaska and specimens gathered on the expedition, 3/27/1873;

Dall to Spencer F. Baird regarding his collection of fossils, 3/27/1873;

Joseph Henry, regarding Congressional appropriations to the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S.C.S., 4/2/1873;

Julius Erasmus Hilgard, assistant in charge of office, U.S.C.S., on personal matters regarding Henry W. Elliott, Henry, and Agassiz, 12/14/1873;

C. P. Patterson, former Assistant Superintendent and Hydrographic Inspector, U.S.C.S., regarding expedition duties for 1874, 3/1874;

Davidson's handwritten map giving his astronomical position at Sitka, written 1869;

Patterson, regarding future appropriations for Alaskan explorations, 9/5/1874.

Outgoing correspondence I, letterpress, 1866-1867, 1870-1871 (indexed), includes correspondence to administrators, colleagues and relatives relating mostly to the Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1866-1867), and the United States Coast Survey Expedition to Alaska (1870-1871). Material includes the following:

Box 4 of 56

To Robert Edward Carter Stearns regarding Dall's own scientific progress on the expedition as well as a detailed report on expedition politics, 7/28/1866;

To Spencer F. Baird over the ineptitude of various expedition members and the political intrigue among them, 9/18/1866;

To the Editor of the New York Tribune on the various features of Alaska, 8/1/1867. This article can be found in a newspaper clipping located in the scrapbook in Box 2.

To J. Gywn Jeffreys, London, regarding mollusk species, 5/21/1871;

To Baird regarding the possibilities of his researching the Pacific Ocean fisheries, 6/30 (?)/1871.

Outgoing correspondence II, letterpress, 1871-1873 (indexed), regarding the United States Coast Survey expedition to Alaska. Material includes the following:

Box 4 of 56

Notes on the North Pacific currents made on the voyage from San Francisco to Alaska, 9/1871;

Hydrographic Notes on Captain's Bay and Vicinity, n.d.;

Dall's specifications for a new vessel to be used during the 1873 explorations;

To Spencer F. Baird regarding his health and his specimen collections, 1/13/1873, 1/20/1873;

To C. Field, Western China and Japan Telegraph Company, Washington, D.C., regarding the undesirability of having the Island of Attu as the mid-point for the Pacific Cable, 2/19/1873;

Twenty-page report on the 1873 expedition, n.d.;

To Baird supporting one Captain Bryant and opposing Henry W. Elliott in the latter's attempt to have Bryant dismissed, 11/14/1873;

To the Secretary of War in regard to the tearing down of government buildings by the sergeant in charge of St. Paul's on Kodiak Island, who then resold the lumber to private parties, 11/14/1873;

To Henry regarding the natural history collection taken during the expedition, 11/28/1873.

Box 5

Outgoing correspondence, letterpress, 3 volumes, 1891-1926. (Second volume indexed.) Includes correspondence to relatives, friends, colleagues, administrators of scientific organizations, publishers, professors, lawyers, medical doctors, banks and trust companies, regarding personal and family matters, financial problems, powers of attorney, administrative reports, magazine subscriptions, journal articles, monographs, genealogy, scientific organization membership candidacies, mollusk collections, and student theses. Material includes the following:

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To Rev. Father A. Orban, Catholic University, regarding the environmental role in the theory of selection, 6/12/1891;

To John Wesley Powell, director of the United States Geological Survey, a report on the Division of Cenozoic Paleontology, U.S.G.S., 6/15/1891, 6/15/1894;

To George Brown Goode, assistant secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, a report on the operations of the Department of Mollusks and Cenozoic Fossils, 6/30/1891; includes Dall's publications in Appendix B;

To Charles D. Walcott, chief paleontologist of the U.S.C.S., a report on the Division of Cenozoic Invertebrate Paleontology, 7/1/1892, 6/30/1893, 5/11/1895;

To Walcott, a summary of the operations of the Division of Invertebrate Cenozoic Paleontology, 1884-1892, 10/20/1892;

To sister Sarah regarding family problems relating to his mother, 6/4/1897;

To the New England Trust Company, Boston, regarding trusteeship over his father's estate, 6/9/1897;

To Charles Lowell, Boston, regarding the family trust fund, 6/21/1897;

To Rev. William Duncan, Metlakatla, Alaska, regarding possible congressional action to withdraw a good portion of Annette Island as an Alaskan reservation and throw it open to prospectors, 1/25/1898;

To the Secretary of the Washington Academy of Sciences asking that his name be dropped from its membership roll, 6/2/1898;

To George E. Billings, San Francisco, regarding the suit by Rolofsen against Captain Hall's property, 11/10/1898;

To William T. Brigham, director of the B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in regard to visiting the Hawaiian Islands and identifying mollusca of the area, 3/25/1899;

To White and Company regarding family genealogy, Dall's accomplishments and important publications, 4/3/1899;

To Eugene Waldemar Hilgard, University of California, Berkeley, regarding the accomplishments of Pritchett, in charge of the U.S.C.S., 4/10/1899;

To Edgar A. Smith, British Museum, London, in regard to the Boer War and American reactions to it, 1/30/1900;

To H. A. Pilsbry, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, regarding mollusk identifications, the transferring of collections, missing and/or stolen collections and Charles Torrey Simpson's manuscript, 6/18/1901;

To Richard Rathbun, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, regarding the growth of the Division of Mollusks since he had taken over, Dall's advancement for purchasing a private collection, the need for a working library, and Dall's willingness to turn his personal library over to the museum which he lists in general terms, 7/5/1902;

To Arnold Hague, U.S.G.S., regarding Alexander Agassiz's request to edit Jeffries Wyman's memoir of Augustus A. Gould, 11/19/1902, 11/22/1902;

To the United States Civil Service Commission regarding questions to be asked on the special examination for appointment as aid to the director of Mollusks, U. S. National Museum, 1/26/1903;

To Grove Karl Gilbert regarding criticism over manuscripts and its bearing on Powell's effectiveness as a leader, 5/1/1903;

To Edward Anthony Spitzka regarding Major Powell, 5/20/1903;

To Samuel Tobias Wagner, regarding his appointment as honorary professor to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, 9/19/1903;

To Edward J. Nolan, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, regarding his criticism of a manuscript on mollusks, 3/8/1904;

To his son Marcus regarding the family, 7/26/1904;

To N. M. Butler, President of Columbia University, regarding the background and abilities of William T. Brigham, 2/7/1905;

To his son Charles Whitney regarding some of the problems of receiving family inheritances, 3/20/1907;

To Charles Schuchert, Sheffield Scientific School, concerning his preoccupation with writing a book on the North Pacific marine faunas and his inability to undertake a general survey, 5/29/1908;

To John G. Brady, New York City, about the circumstances regarding his full name and the development of his present signature, 11/23/1909;

To the Superintendent of the Anacostia line of street cars concerning the behavior of their conductors, 1/18/1910;

To Franz Boas, Columbia University, concerning rumors in regard to Boas' integrity, 1/22/1910;

To C. F. Newcombe, Victoria, British Columbia, regarding the question of Kendrick's explorations of the Pacific Northwest and historical evidence for same, 10/17/1910;

To John W. Linzee, Boston, on the genealogy of his family, 4/5/1911.

Most of the correspondence between 1911-1914 is in regard to Dall's mother's finances, her emotional and physical capabilities, her will, and her estate. Also included are the following Dall letters:

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To his wife regarding personal problems over their respective responsibilities in the house, 3/12/1913;

To The Science Press regarding his mother's wish as stated in her will, that her book, The College, the Market and the Court, be published in a memorial edition, 4/16/1913;

To Herbert A. Gill, Washington, D.C., regarding whether he should attempt Baird's memoir as entrusted by Lucy Baird in her will, 10/27/1913;

To George F. Edmunds, Pasadena, in regard to writing a chapter of appreciation for the Baird memoir, 11/13/1913;

To the home secretary, National Academy of Sciences, regarding its growth, endowments for a building, and equipment for research purposes, meetings and the publication of a scientific journal, 12/11/1913;

To the editor, Cornell University, regarding publication control and Dall's withdrawal of his report on the silex bed fauna, 2/9/1914;

To William Trelease, University of Illinois, Urbana, regarding the scientific leadership in Washington in general and in comparison with the Smithsonian Institution, 2/20/1914;

To W. I. Swanton, Washington, D.C., regarding tax reforms, Henry George Sr. and Jr., and the fallibility of any system founded on pure theory, 2/20/1914;

To Chester W. Washburne, Eugene, Oregon, regarding the incompetence of various paleontologists and conchologists, 4/2/1914;

To Carlotta Joaquina Maury, South Africa, regarding W. H. Turton's mollusk collection, also, the Democratic Administration's handling of Mexican affairs, 6/18/1914;

To Gill regarding the progress and trials of the Baird mss., 6/24/1914;

To the Executive Officer, Public Utilities Commission, Washington, D.C., regarding the Commission's hearings on the public streetcars, 10/14/1914;

To John Casper Branner, Stanford University, regarding minute observations on the knowledge and speaking capabilities of Boas, J. Walter Fewkes, Ales Hrdlicka, C. Hart Merriam, William Henry Holmes, Charles Fletcher Lummis;

To J. B. Lippincott & Co. regarding publication of the Baird mss., 11/5/1914;

To Mrs. Moncure Robinson, Paoli, Pennsylvania, about interesting items regarding Baird's family, Baird's wife, and the photographs Dall has found and needs, 11/16/1914;

To Y. Hirase, Kyoto, Japan, regarding the European war and congratulations over Japan's success in taking away Germany's territory in China, 1/7/1915;

To Francis N. Balch, Boston, regarding the consolidation of the Divisions of Invertebrates with Mollusks enabling Paul Bartsch to be appointed full curator; also, the working harmony between himself and Bartsch, 1/9/1915;

To Charles Hedley, Australian Museum, Sydney, regarding American sympathies toward the Allies and economic conditions due to the European War, 3/22/1915;

To Tom Iredale, British Museum of Natural History, London, regarding Iredale's criticism of Bartsch's South African paper, 12/2/1916;

W. H. Ochsner, San Francisco, to Dall, telegram, regarding Galapagos material and Mrs. Oldroyd's identifications and her need to hold on to a portion of the collection, 6/17/1916;

To A. G. Mayer, Princeton, regarding William Stimpson, his family and work, 12/27/1916;

To Charles Edward Munroe, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, George Washington University, regarding students' theses, 4/27/1917;

To Fred Baker, California, regarding his work and the manuscripts of Hirase and Bartsch, 5/8/1917;

To President Woodrow Wilson recommending that George Kennan serve on the proposed commission of Americans to be sent to Russia to confer, advise and extend American sympathy and support to the new government, 5/11/1917;

To B. W. Evermann, Director of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, regarding his difficulties with Ochsner, 12/20/1917;

To John F. G. Stokes, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, about determining the value of a collection, 10/16/1918;

To Hector Alliot, Director, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, regarding publication of a pamphlet covering half a century of collections and notes made by Dall on the Gastropod Mollusca of the Northwest Coast from the Arctic Sea to San Diego, 11/27/1918;

To Evermann regarding his mss. and the changes in the spelling of Alaskan names by the Geographic Board, 5/13/1919;

To Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator of Biology, U.S.N.M., regarding publication of the "Summary of the Shell Bearing Mollusks From San Diego to the Polar Sea," 12/29/1919;

To David White, Chief Geologist in the U.S.G.S., on the retirement bill and Dall's future status, 5/26/1920;

To George Otis Smith, Director of the U.S.G.S., regarding his philosophy on life and work, 6/4/1920;

To Arthur MacDonald, The Congressional, regarding the consolidation of Government Service under the Smithsonian Institution and political appointments within scientific agencies, 10/6/1921;

To Mrs. R. L. Nichols, New York City, regarding the brutality of white agents from Hutchinson, Kohl, & Company, later called the Alaskan Commercial (A.C.) Company, in Alaska, towards the natives who would not trade with them, 11/2/1921, 4/17/1924;

To Oswald Garrison Villard, regarding the unfairness of the latter's publication [The Nation], 2/4/1922;

To G. Dallas Hanna, California Academy of Natural Sciences, in regard to withdrawing his collaboration on the Galapagos landshells, 4/4/1922;

To G. Otis Smith, U.S.G.S., regarding an extension of Dall's termination date, 4/28/1922;

To John Swift Holbrook, Providence, Rhode Island, regarding Dall's lineage and his surname's Gaelic meaning, 11/22/1922, 11/27/1922;

To H. E. Gregory, Yale University, regarding identification of mollusks in relation to a publication, 1/7/1924;

To Irving Fisher, Yale University, regarding the League of Nations, 2/16/1925;

To the editor of Forum regarding the duties of Government, 4/2/1925;

To P. H. Lombard, Brookline, Massachusetts, regarding genealogy, 11/6/1925, 11/27/1925;

To J. C. Merriam, Carnegie Institution, regarding publication of his monograph on the marine mollusca of the Hawaiian Islands, 3/16/1926.

Series 4

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1865-1927. INCOMING AND OCCASIONAL OUTGOING. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY THEREUNDER.

This series consists of correspondence received from and occasionally written to publishers, administrators of scientific organizations, colleagues, lawyers, scientific societies, and private collectors of mollusca concerning receipts for gifts of publications, requests for monographs and journal articles, organizational dues, scientific and social society meetings, appointments to scientific societies, provisions needed for expeditions, monthly reports for the United States National Museum, Division of Mollusks, and the United States Geological Survey, United States Coast Survey material, Alaskan politics and the treatment of Alaskan natives by agents of fur companies, translation of Russian names and vocabulary, nomenclature and requests for identification of mollusk collections, purchase of mollusk collections, lists of collections shipped out and mollusk collections needed by the United States National Museum, Western Union Telegraph Expedition reports, surveys, field notes, maps, politics, and family and personal matters.

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Folder 1 Abbot - American Biological Publishing Co.

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Includes Charles Conrad Abbott

Arthur Adams

Jane Alexander

Henry Turemon Allen

Benjamin Alvard

Folder 2 American Geological Society - The Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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Includes American Ornithologists Union

American Society of Naturalists

Alexander C. Anderson

Appalachian Mountain Club

Folder 3 Atkinson - Ayer

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Includes Louis Evans Atkinson

Benjamin W. Austin

William P. Avery

Folder 4 Cleveland Abbe. 1881-1912.

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Folder 5 Charles G. Abbot. 1919-1927.

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Folder 6 Academy of Natural Sciences-Philadelphia. 1869-1926.

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Folder 7 Charles Christopher Adams. 1913.

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Folder 8 Cyrus Adler. 1893-1897, 1914-1917.

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Folders 9-10 Alexander Agassiz. 1871-1891. (2 folders)

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Folder 11 Jean Louis Agassiz. 1870-1871.

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Folder 12 Truman Heminway Aldrich. 1885-1889, 1903.

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Folder 13 Joel Asaph Allen. 1870-1875.

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Folder 14 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1918-1927.

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Folder 15 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1874-1927.

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Folder 16 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Zoological Nomenclature. 1877.

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Folder 17 The American Association of Museums. 1924-1925.

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Folder 18 American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. 1900-1926.

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Folder 19 American Society of Naturalists. 1886-c. 1927.

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Folder 20 C. F. Ancey. 1885-1892.

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Folder 21 Edmund A. Andrews. 1869.

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Folder 22 D. Appleton and Company. 1882-1915.

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Folder 23 Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1870-1876.

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Folder 24 William D. Averell. 1886-1889.

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Folder 25 Ba

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Includes W. H. Ball

Adolph Bastian

Folder 26 Be

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Includes E. R. Beadle

L. A. Beaumont

P. Bedson

B. Beedham

Alfred Bell

Bernice P. Bishop Museum

Emil Bessels

Folder 27 Bi

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Includes George E. Billings

John Shaw Billings

Folder 28 Bl - Bo

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Includes Clarence John Blake

Franz Boas

Boehmer

James P. Bogart

E. C. Bolles

Henry Carrington Bolton

Henry Boursin

Folder 29 Br

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Includes Bremen, Geographic Society of

N. Brewer

William H. Brewer

Y. Brock

Horace Brown

S. C. Brown

H. C. Browne

Guiseppe Brugnone

Folder 30 Bu

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Includes Charles S. Bulkley

Bureau of Education, Alaska

Katherine Jeanette Bush

Amos W. Butler

James L. Butler

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Folder 1 Sylvanus Bailey. 1875-1887.

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Folder 2 Lucy H. Baird. 1872-1904.

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Folder 3 Mary H. C. Baird. 1871-1878.

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Folders 4-9 Spencer F. Baird. 1866-1887. (6 folders)

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Folder 10 Baird Memorial Celebration. 1923.

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Folder 11 Fred Baker. 1900-1901, 1924-1926.

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Folders 12-15 Marcus Baker, 1874-1897; and Marian Strong Baker, 1904-1905. (4 folders)

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Folder 16 M. D. Ball. 1879-1886.

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Folder 17 Harlan Hogue Ballard. N. D., 1887.

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Folder 18 Elizabeth Barkan. 1875-1876.

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Folder 19 Paul Bartsch. 1923, 1926.

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Folder 20 George Herman Baur. 1891-1892.

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Folder 21 Thomas Francis Bayard. 1885.

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Box 8

Folder 1 Tarleton Hoffman Bean. 1877-1886.

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Folder 2 Lester Anthony Beardslee. 1881-1883.

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Folder 3 Charles Emerson Beecher. 1885-1887, 1906.

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Folder 4 E. Behm. 1881-1882.

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Folder 5 George Eugene Belknap. 1873-1875.

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Folder 6 Charles A. Bell. 1884-1885.

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Folder 7 Robert Bell. 1879-1887.

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Folder 8 Bernhard Bendel. 1874-1876.

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Folder 9 Marcus Benjamin. 1886, 1927.

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Folder 10 Rudolph Bergh. 1876-1905.

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Folder 11 Albert Smith Bickmore. 1869-1882.

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Folder 12 E. Billings. 1871.

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Folder 13 William Greene Binney. 1870-1890.

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Folder 14 Biological Abstracts. 1926-1927.

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Folder 15 Thomas Bland. 1870-1875, 1882.

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Folder 16 H. J. Bockelman. 1926-1927.

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Folder 17 William T. Brigham. 1899, 1922-1923.

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Folder 18 British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1878-1921.

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Folder 19 William Keith Brooks. c. 1877-1882.

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Folder 20 Charles Bryant. 1870-1897.

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Folder 21 Jesse Y. Burk. 1904.

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Folder 22 Frank Burns. 1884-1886.

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Folder 23 Ca - Ce

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Includes W. Cable

Robert Campbell

Colbert A. Canfield

Rupert M. L. Carpenter

W. L. Carpenter

Warren Carter

L. B. Case

Cassell and Company, Publishers

Folder 24 Ch

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Includes T. C. Chamberlin

M. Chapins

Miller Christy

Folder 25 Cl

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Includes E. H. Clark

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Hyde Clarke

John Mason Clarke

R. P. Clarke

Folder 26 Co

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Includes Collins

Charles Elmer Connor

(Major) C. Conway

A. H. Cooke

Richard Corwin

E. T. Cox

Folder 27 Cr - Cu

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Includes Edward Crane

William Otis Crosby

H. Cuming

Frank Hamilton Cushing

Folder 28 California Academy of Sciences. 1899, 1926.

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Folder 29 W. W. Calkins. 1876-1886.

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Folder 30 R. Ellsworth Call. 1881-1889.

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Folder 31 Douglas Houghton Campbell. 1912.

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Box 9

Folder 1 Philip Pearsall Carpenter. 1861, 1869-1876.

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Folder 2 Russell Lant Carpenter. 1875-1881.

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Folder 3 J. McKeen Cattell. 1926.

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Folder 4 Leander Trowbridge Chamberlin. 1894-1906.

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Folder 5 Marine J. Chase. 1887.

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Folder 6 Chicago Academy of Sciences. 1869, 1878.

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Folder 7 Russell H. Chittenden. 1907-1912.

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Folder 8 George H. Clapp. 1926.

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Folder 9 Samuel F. Clark. 1875-1887.

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Folder 10 William B. Clarke. N. D., 1889-1908.

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Folder 11 Theodore D. A. Cockerell. 1905.

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Folder 12 B. A. Colonna. 1885-1886.

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Folder 13 Edwin Grant Conklin. 1912-1914.

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Folder 14 James Graham Cooper. 1866-1889.

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Folder 15 Edward Drinker Cope. 1866-1889.

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Folder 16 Cosmos Club. 1887-1926.

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Folder 17 Elliott Coues. 1870, 1886.

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Folder 18 Agnes Crane. 1885-1899.

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Folder 19 H. Crosse. 1879-1882.

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Folder 20 Joseph B. Crowe. 1885.

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Folder 21 Joseph A. Cushman. c. 1911, 1914.

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Folder 22 Da - Dw

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Includes A. Dall

E. P. Daly

Daniellsen

Dannehower

Davenport Academy of Sciences

George Davidson

William Morris Davis

A. Dean

Sherman F. Denton

Oliver A. Derby

Harry E. Dore

William Downie

A. Drummond

J. F. Dwight

Folder 23 E. W. Dahlgren. 1889.

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Folder 24 Caroline Healey Dall. 1844, 1880-1889.

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Folder 25 Charles Whitney Dall. 1934.

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Folder 26 William H. Dall. 1871-1925.

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Folder 27 William H. Dall, Trip to Europe. 1878.

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Folder 28 William H. Dall, Trip to Honolulu. 1899.

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Folder 29 Robert Damon. 1875-1880.

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Folder 30 E. S. Dana. 1922.

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Folder 31 James Dwight Dana. 1866-1889.

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Folder 32 R. D. Darbishire. 1878-1879.

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Folders 33-35 Thomas Davidson. 1870-1885. (3 folders)

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Folder 36 J. Bernard Davis. 1877-1878.

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Folder 37 George M. Dawson. 1875-1889.

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Folder 38 John William Dawson. 1875-1887.

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Folder 39 E. DeBoury. 1886-1887.

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Box 10

Folder 1 De Folin. 1887

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Folder 2 F. S. Dellenbaugh. 1900.

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Folder 3 Emile Deville. 1883-1885.

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Folder 4 Emile Deyrolle. 1897-1899.

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Folder 5 Theodore F. Dwight. 1877-1887.

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Folder 6 W. D. Dybowsky. N. D., 1878.

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Folder 7 Ea - Eu

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Includes Arthur Mead Edwards

John Emery

William H. Ennis

Birgithe Esmark

G. W. Eustis

Folder 8 William Henry Edwards. 1877.

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Folder 9 Elfering. 1878.

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Folder 10 Henry W. Elliott. 1865-1874.

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Folder 11 James H. Emerton. c. 1883.

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Folder 12 English High School (Boston). 1896-1921.

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Folder 13 George Homer Eustis. 1877-1925.

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Folder 14 Willis E. Everette. 1884-1886.

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Folder 15 Barton Warren Evermann. 1919-1926.

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Folder 16 F

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Includes D. W. Ferguson

Robert Fletcher

Lyman Spalding Foster

Samuel Rhoads Franklin

Augustus W. Franks

Charles B. Fuller

Folder 17 J. Walter Fewkes. 1884-1890.

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Folder 18 Otto Finsch. 1873-1876.

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Folder 19 G. Fischer. 1883-1889.

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Folder 20 William J. Fisher. 1875-1880.

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Folder 21 Sandford Fleming. 1878-1879.

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Folder 22 Alice Cunningham Fletcher. 1884-1887.

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Folder 23 A. E. Foote. 1885-1895.

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Folder 24 John Ford. 1889.

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Folder 25 Edward Foreman. 1882, 1885.

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Folder 26 R. Friedlander and Son. 1878-1894, 1906.

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Folder 27 Herman Friele. 1876-1883.

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Folder 28 Arthur L. Frothingham. 1885-1889.

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Folder 29 Hugh Fulton. 1893-1897, 1927.

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Folder 30 G

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Includes J. L. Gardner

Geographic Society of Bremen (under B)

Geological Society of London

Daniel Coit Gilman

Louis Agassiz Gould

J. C. Gordon

Louis Pope Gratacap

Arthur F. Gray

Grayor

A. S. Green

Bernard Richardson Green

H. E. Gregory

Grunow

Folder 31 William More Gabb. 1869, 1873.

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Folder 32 William Francis Ganong, 1889-1890.

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Folder 33 A. Garrett. 1870-1875.

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Folder 34 Wendell Phillips Garrison. 1875-1906.

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Folder 35 Albert Samuel Gatschet. 1879-1886.

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Folder 36 Randolph Iltyd Geare. 1885.

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Folder 37 A. J. Geile. 1926.

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Folder 38 George Washington University. 1915-1926.

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Folder 39 William E. George. 1884.

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Folder 40 G. Gerland. 1878, 1884.

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Folder 41 George Gibbs. 1867-1873.

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Folder 42 Grove Karl Gilbert. 1884-1902.

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Folder 43 Joseph B. Gilder. 1889.

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Folder 44 Theodore Nicholas Gill. 1871-1873.

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Folder 45 W. A. Glassford. 1890.

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Box 11

Folder 1 George Brown Goode. 1876-1891.

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Folder 2 H. H. Goodell. 1886.

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Folder 3 Augustus Addison Gould. 1864.

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Folder 4 Julia N. Gould. 1905.

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Folder 5 Asa Gray. 1873.

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Folder 6 Isaiah Greegor. 1885-1891.

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Folder 7 Adolphus Washington Greeley. 1886-1891.

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Folder 8 Samuel S. Greeley. 1887-1889.

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Folder 9 Anatonio De Gregorio. 1883-1891.

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Folder 10 John Walter Gregory. 1889.

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Folder 11 Gilbert Grosvenor. 1903-1926.

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Folder 12 Arnold Henry Guyot. 1876, 1889.

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Folder 13 Ha

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Includes Ernest Heinrich Haeckel

N. A. Hagen

Albany Hancock

W. G. Harford

O. Harger

C. F. Harte

David G. Haskins, Jr.

F. W. Hatton

Folder 14 He - Hi

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Includes G. Hellman

J. G. Henderson

John B. Henderson, Jr.

Hester (?) F. Henshall

James Alexander Henshall

J. H. Hickcox

W. D. Hill

Folder 15 Ho - Hu

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Includes Edward Singleton Holden

William Holden

George W. Holstein

L. D. Howard

Hutchinson, Kohl and Company

Folder 16 Alfred Cort Haddon. 1883-1886.

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Folder 17 Arnold Hague. 1887-1914.

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Folder 18 Asaph Hall. 1872-1877.

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Folder 19 James Hall. 1877.

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Folder 20 W. G. Hall. 1875, 1883, 1898.

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Folder 21 Otto Halla. 1920.

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Folder 22 Charles Hallock. N. D., 1886.

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Folder 23 Elizabeth Hammond. c. 1884-1906. Also see Elizabeth Noyes.

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Folder 24 Sylvanus Hanley. 1869-1876.

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Folder 25 J. Max Hark. 1884-1886.

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Folder 26 Mark Walrod Harrington. 1873-1901.

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Folder 27 W. D. Hartman. 1876-1889.

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Folder 28 Horatius B. Hastings. 1891.

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Folder 29 Angelo Heilprin. 1881-1890.

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Folder 30 Henry Hemphill. 1875-1903.

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Folder 31 Janius Henderson. 1926

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Folder 32 Joseph Henry. 1871-1877.

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Folder 33 E. B. Herendeen. 1881-1905.

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Folder 34 E. P. Herendeen. 1875-1886.

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Folder 35 L. N. Herendeen. 1877.

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Folder 36 I. Herzenstein. 1875-1891.

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Folder 37 D. P. Heynemann. 1884-1885.

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Folder 38 Joaquin G. Hidalgo. 1890-1891.

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Folder 39 E. W. Hilgard. 1890-1891.

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Folder 40 Julius Erasmus Hilgard. 1870-1885.

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Folder 41 Robert Thomas Hill. 1888-1890.

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Folder 42 Y. Hirase. 1905-1922.

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Folder 43 Charles Henry Hitchcock. N. D., 1871-1903.

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Box 12

Folder 1 John Sherzer Hittell. 1887.

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Folder 2 John C. Hodge. 1891.

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Folder 3 Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges. 1885-1888.

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Folder 4 William Henry Holmes. 1905, 1926.

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Folder 5 Agapius Honcharenko. 1873-1880.

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Folder 6 C. L. Hooper. c. 1882-1884.

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Folder 7 William E. Hoyle. 1889-1907.

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Folder 8 J. W. Huff. 1877.

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Folder 9 Charles Henry Hull. 1889.

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Folder 10 Alpheus Hyatt. 1869-1900.

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Folder 11 I

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Includes George P. Ihrie

Folder 12 Herman Von Ihering. 1879.

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Folder 13 Ernest Ingersoll. 1879-1882.

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Folder 14. Tom Iredale. 1926.

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Folder 15 J

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Includes H. A. Jackson

U. P. James

Theodore Jewell

E. Jewett

J. Winter Jones

Folder 16 James Jackson. 1881-1886.

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Folder 17 Robert T. Jackson. 1889-1914.

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Folder 18 Shelden Jackson. 1878-1887.

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Folder 19 H. B. James. 1879.

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Folder 20 Howell Jeffreys. 1885-1887.

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Folder 21 J. Gwyn Jeffreys. 1870-1877.

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Folders 22-23 Papers relating to Jeffreys' Collection. 1882-1885. (2 folders)

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Folder 24 C. B. Jennings. 1875, 1905.

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Folder 25 Lawrence C. Johnson. 1885.

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Folder 26 J. M. Jones. 1879.

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Folder 27 David Starr Jordan. c. 1877-1882.

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Folder 28 K

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Includes Jared Potter Kirtland

B. Klecak

Ludwig Knudsen

J. Kohn

Kolemann

J. Kopernicki

Charles Kraus

F. Krauss

Folder 29 W. Seton Karr. N. D., 1885-1887.

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Folder 30 Josiah Keep. 1881-1882.

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Folder 31 Maurice E. Kenealy. 1887.

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Folder 32 George Kennan. N. D., 1879-1881.

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Folder 33 Mary S. Kennicott. 1865-1866.

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Folder 34 Robert Kennicott. 1865.

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Folder 35 J. H. Kidder. 1887.

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Folder 36 Edward A. Kilian. 1877.

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Box 13

Folder 1 Clarence King. N. D., 1871.

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Folder 2 J. Sterling Kingsley. 1877-1902.

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Folder 3 Albert M. Knight. N. D., 1877.

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Folder 4 J. M. Knott. 1885.

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Folder 5 J. W. Kobelt. 1876-1889.

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Folder 6 H. T. Koshiba. N. D., 1905.

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Folder 7 Arthur Krause. N. D., 1883-1885.

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Folder 8 L

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Includes W. Leche

Wilbur F. Litch

The Literary Society of Washington

Sven Ludwig Loven

Folder 9 Fannie Langford. 1867-1876.

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Folder 10 Edwin Ray Lankester. N. D., 1884.

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Folder 11 F. R. Latchford. 1883-1887, 1926.

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Folder 12 George Newbold Lawrence. 1870-1886.

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Folder 13 Frances and Isaac Lea. 1869-1889.

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Folder 14 John Leckenby. 1876.

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Folder 15 John Lawrence LeConte. 1877.

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Folder 16 Lee and Shepard, Publishers. 1869-1870.

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Folder 17 Charles Leege. 1876.

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Folder 18 Albert E. Lewis. 1875-1876.

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Folder 19 James Lewis. 1875-1879.

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Folder 20 William Libbey, Jr. 1886-1887.

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Folder 21 Josua Lindahl. 1878.

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Folder 22 M. Lindemann. 1873-1889.

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Folder 23 Gustaf Lindstrom. 1875-1889.

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Folder 24 Joseph Albert Lintner. 1880.

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Folder 25 W. N. Lockington. 1878-1879.

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Folder 26 Samuel Lockwood. 1883.

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Folder 27 The London Times. 1899-1902.

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Folder 28 E. A. Lovendal. 1873-1879.

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Folder 29 Joseph Lovering. 1870-1872.

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Folder 30 Frederick F. Low. 1882-1883.

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Folder 31 U. Lutken. N. D., 1875-1879.

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Folder 32 Theodore Lyman. 1879-1880.

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Folder 33 John A. Lynch. 1874.

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Folder 34 Ma

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Includes John J. McClean

J. C. McCormick

William John McGee

Gabriel Edward Manigault

A. A. March

Daniel Strobel Martin

Henry Newell Martin

J. Wood Mason

Otis Tufton Mason

Folder 35 Me - Mi

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Includes F. Meinert

Men of Mark in America

Lewis Meredith

John Merirale

(General) Meyer

Folder 36 Mo - Mu

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Includes T. H. Morgan

Jefferson Franklin Moser

John Murdoch

Museum at Bergen

Folder 37 William J. Mclntyre. 1876.

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Folder 38 J. Playfair McMurrick. 1886, 1889.

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Folder 39 George Maier. 1887-1903. Also see Mayer and Maier.

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Folder 40 The Malacological Society of London. 1893-1926.

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Folder 41 (Baron) Maltzan. 1875-1876.

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Folder 42 Jules Marcou. 1883.

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Folder 43 J. L. Marshall. 1876-1879.

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Folder 44 William B. Marshall. 1926.

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Folder 45 E. Martens. 1875-1889.

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Folder 46 Carlotta Joaquina Maury. 1920-1926.

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Folder 47 William G. Mazyck. 1877-1907.

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Folder 48 Thomas Meehan. 1883.

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Folder 49 Fielding Bradford Meek. 1869-1876.

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Box 14

Folder 1 C. Hart Merriam. 1886-1926.

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Folder 2 Elizabeth Merriam. 1869, 1875-1878.

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Folder 3 Mayer and Maier. 1905.

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Folder 4 Otto Meyer. 1885-1887.

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Folder 5 S. A. Miller. 1877.

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Folder 6 James W. Milner. 1875-1880.

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Folder 7 Sarah A. Milner. 1879-1880.

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Folder 8 Charles Sedgwick Minot. 1884-1885.

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Folder 9 John H. Mitchell. 1876.

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Folder 10 Monteresoto. 1884-1889.

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Folder 11 John B. Moore. 1887-1889.

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Folder 12 O. A. Morch. N. D., 1875-1877.

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Folder 13 William Gouverneur Morris. 1879-1883.

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Folder 14 Edward Sylvester Morse. 1870-1889.

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Folder 15 Na - Nu

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Includes Nadaillae

C. F. Newcomb

New England Trust Company

(Mrs.) R. L. Nichols

O. Nordquist

John J. Northrop (missing)

Nuttall

Folder 16 National Academy of Sciences. 1897-1927.

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Folder 17 National Geographic Society. 1897.

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Folder 18 National Research Council. 1926.

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Folder 19 J. C. Neal. 1885.

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Folder 20 Edward William Nelson. 1882-1883.

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Folder 21 John Strong Newberry. 1869, 1877.

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Folder 22 Raymond Lee Newcomb. 1883.

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Folder 23 W. Newcomb. 1874, 1887.

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Folder 24 William Wells Newell. 1887.

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Folder 25 Henry E. Nichols. 1881-1886.

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Folder 26 Edward J. Nolan. 1876-1881.

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Folder 27 Nils Adolph Erik Nordenskiold. 1882-1886.

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Folder 28 A. M. Norman. 1878-1889.

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Folder 29 Edward Norton. 1877.

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Folder 30 Edward E. Norton. 1885-1906.

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Folder 31 Amos Noyes. 1870.

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Folder 32 Elizabeth Noyes. 1877-1880. Also see Elizabeth Hammond.

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Folder 33 William M. Noyes. 1875-1906.

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Folder 34 O

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Includes Washington H. Ochsner

J. E. Olson

J. Clark Osterhaut

George Alexander Otis

Folder 35 Ellen M. O'Connor. 1877-1883.

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Folder 36 Daniel Oehlert. N. D., 1879-1887.

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Folder 37 Jan Olaffson. 1874-1875.

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Folder 38 Ida S. Oldroyd. 1897-1927.

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Folder 39 Charles R. Orcutt. N. D., 1884-1885.

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Folder 40 Henry Leslie Osborn. 1879-1891.

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Folder 41 Carl Robert Osten-Sacken. 1869-1879.

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Folder 42 Agnes Pauline Otis. 1878.

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Folder 43 L. C. Owen. 1881-1884.

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Folder 44 Pa - Pu

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Includes Ephriam Petersen

Barnet Phillips

W. Pielte

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

Raphael Pumpelly

Folder 45 Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr. 1869-1903.

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Folder 46 Edward Palmer. 1872.

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Folder 47 (General) O. H. Palmer. 1868-1869.

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Folder 48 Edward Parrish. 1870.

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Folder 49 Stephen D. Peet. 1876-1877.

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Folder 50 Cyrus Newlin Peirce. 1884-1885.

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Box 15

Folder 1 Paul Pelseneer. 1886-1887.

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Folder 2 A. Petermann. 1869-1873.

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Folder 3 Ivan Petroff. 1879-1881.

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Folder 4 Melville Philips. 1885.

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Folder 5 Philosophical Society of Washington. N. D., 1875-1927.

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Folder 6 James Constantine Pilling. 1883-1889.

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Folder 7 J. W. Pilling. 1882, 1898.

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Folder 8 Henry A. Pilsbry. 1886-1887.

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Folder 9 Henry A. Pilsbry. N. D., 1888-1889, 1926

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Folder 10 Alphonse (?) Pinart. N. D., 1871-1886.

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Folder 11 Ludwig Plate. 1889.

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Folder 12 Charles H. Pope. 1881-1882.

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Folder 13 E. J. Post. 1892-1924.

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Folder 14 Louis Francois de Pourtales. 1870-1879.

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Folder 15 John Wesley Powell. 1875-1885, 1888

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Folder 16 Temple Prime. N. D., 1870-1884.

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Folder 17 Frederic Ward Putnam. 1871-1887.

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Folder 18 G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1884-1885.

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Folder 19 Q

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Folder 20 John Duncan Quackenbos. 1886-1887.

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Folder 21 Bernard Quaritch. 1874-1892.

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Folder 22 Ra - Ri

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Includes John H. Redfield

J. W. Redway

Joseph Haven Cowles Richards

Folder 23 Ro - Ry

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Includes V. Robillard

J. C. Rock

John Rogers

John A. Ryder

E. C. Rye

Folder 24 Richard Rathbun. 1881-1902.

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Folder 25 R. Ratzel. 1882-1883.

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Folder 26 Paul Reibisrh (?). 1894.

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Folder 27 William J. Rhees. 1880-1881. Concerning George Tsaroff.

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Folder 28 William North Rice. 1887-1904.

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Folder 29 W. W. Rice. 1887.

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Folder 30 Charles Valentine Riley. 1877-1883.

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Folder 31 H. Rink. 1877-1886.

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Folder 32 S. Rink. 1903-1905.

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Folder 33 S. Raymond Roberts. 1881-1882.

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Folder 34 Herman Rolle. c. 1893-1904.

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Folder 35 George Rolleston and M. F. Rolleston. N. D., 1882.

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Folder 36 Joseph Trimble Rothrock. 1869, 1878.

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Folder 37 Israel C. Russell. 1890-1891.

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Folder 38 William H. Rush. 1886-1897.

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Folder 39 Sa - Se

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Includes William Edwin Safford

F. G. Sanborn

Edward Schwartze

Margaret Scott

P. L. Selater

DeWitt J. Seligman

G. Semper

Folder 40 Sh - Sw

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Includes Benjamin Silliman

William B. Sloan

W. C. Stavely

Japetus Smith Steenstrup

Joseph Beal Steere

Steindachner

W. Laconte Stevens

John James Stevenson

Stoliczka

E. V. Stone

Minnie L. Stone

A. B. Stout

Swan

Folder 41 C. O. Sars. 1875-1876.

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Folder 42 A. H. Sayce. 1878-1879.

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Box 16

Folder 1 C. M. Scammon. 1869-1873.

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Folder 2 Hans Schlesch. 1922-1923.

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Folder 3 Waldo L. Schmitt. 1926.

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Folder 4 Oskar Schneider. 1887.

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Folder 5 Charles Schuchert. 1886-1920.

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Folder 6 Paul Schumacher. 1875-1876.

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Folder 7 E. R. Scidmore. 1884.

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Folder 8 Science. 1882-1886.

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Folder 9 Samuel H. Scudder. 1869-1897.

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Folder 10 DeWitt J. Seligman. 1886.

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Folder 11 Guiseppe Sequenza. 1881-1889.

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Folder 12 Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. 1869-1890.

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Folder 13 C. Davies Sherborn. 1924-1925.

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Folder 14 Bohumil Shimek. 1889.

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Folder 15 Robert Wilson Shufeldt. 1883-1884.

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Folder 16 Charles Torrey Simpson. 1885-1889.

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Folder 17 J. A. Singley. 1887-c. 1890.

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Folder 18 Edgar A. Smith. 1876-1891.

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Folder 19 E. Everett Smith. 1869-1870.

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Folder 20 Eugene A. Smith. 1889-1903.

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Folder 21 George Otis Smith. 1922.

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Folder 22 Sanderson Smith. N. D., 1879-1889.

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Folder 23 Sidney Irving Smith. N. D., 1876-1886.

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Folder 24 P. A. Snell. 1885.

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Folder 25 Societe De Geographie (Paris). 1884.

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Folder 26 G. B. Sowerby; Sowerby and Fulton. 1893-1902.

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Folder 27 J. W. Spencer. N. D., 1887.

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Folder 28 Florence P. Spofford. 1906.

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Folder 29 Mary R. Stearns. c. 1887.

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Folders 30-32 Robert Edward Carter Stearns, N. D., 1870-1900. (3 folders)

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Folder 33 Leonhard Stejneger. 1884, 1916.

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Folder 34 Victor Sterke. 1885-1889.

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Folder 35 James H. Stevenson. 1889.

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Folder 36 William Stimpson. 1866-1871.

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Folder 37 Henry Suter. 1894.

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Folder 38 Ta - Ti

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Includes Francis Augustus Teall

John H. Thomson

F. M. Thorn

Folder 39 To - Tu

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Includes Troschel

L. Trouvelot

J. A. Turner

Lucien M. Turner

Folder 40 C. H. Taylor. 1875-1877.

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Box 17

Folder 1 George W. Taylor. 1889-1891.

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Folder 2 John W. Taylor. 1875, 1886.

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Folder 3 W. Theobald. N. D., 1866-1869.

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Folder 4 L. B. Tillinghast. 1886-1890.

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Folder 5 J. L. Tilton. 1889.

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Folder 6 H. L. Todd. 1876-1877.

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Folder 7 John Torrey. 1866-1870.

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Folder 8 William Trelease. 1900-1924.

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Folder 9 Frederick William True. 1884-1898.

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Folder 10 George Washington Tryon. 1870-1886.

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Folder 11 George Tsaroff. 1873-1880.

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Folder 12 John Mason Tyler. 1880-1891.

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Folder 13 U

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Includes United States Naval Observatory

Warren Upham

Folder 14 Philip Reese Uhler. 1869, 1879.

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Folder 15 Henry Ulke. 1872-1874.

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Folder 16 Edward Oscar Ulrich. 1886-1889.

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Folder 17 United States Geological Survey. N. D., 1891-1926.

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Folder 18 United States Geological Survey, Personnel Notes. 1925-1927.

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Folder 19 V

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Includes J. W. Velis

T. A. Verkruzen

Oswald Garrison Villard

Folder 20 A. Vathelet. 1889.

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Folder 21 T. A. Verkruzen. N. D., 1877-1885.

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Folder 22 Addison Emery Verrill. 1871-1926.

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Folder 23 Thomas N. Vincent, N. D., 1891.

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Folder 24 Wa - Wh

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Includes Charles W. Walker

E. S. Warner

James Craig Watson

Sereno Watson

Ernest Heinrich Weber

H. E. Webster

W. W. Webster

Carl A. Westerlund

A. G. Wetherby

J. J. Wheeler

Folder 25 Wi - Wy

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Includes W. Hull Wickham

H. Wickmann

Burt Green Wilder

Joseph Willcox

Henry Shaler Williams

William Crawford Winlock

Justin Winsor

N. Wood

W. H. Wood

J. Wood-Mason

Wendell P. Woodring

R. S. Woodward

Amos Henry Warthen

Eleanor T. Wragg

Ramsay Wright

A. Wykander

Folder 26 Charles Wagner. 1873.

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Folder 27 Wagner Free Institute of Science. 1903-1905.

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Folder 28 Charles D. Walcott. 1877-1925.

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Folder 29 Bryant Walker. 1889.

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Folder 30 Ward's Natural Science Establishment. 1897.

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Folder 31 W. S. Washburn. 1878.

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Folder 32 J. E. Watkins. 1900.

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Folder 33 Robert Boog Watson. 1878-1901.

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Folder 34 Fred W. Weaver. 1887.

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Folder 35 A. G. Weatherby. 1877-1886.

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Folder 36 George W. Webster. 1889.

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Folders 37-38 William Wesley and Son. 1875-1893. (2 folders)

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Box 18

Folders 1-2 William Wesley and Son. 1894-1907. (2 folders)

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Folder 3 W. S. West. 1870-1875.

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Folder 4 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Includes report from Alexander C. Anderson on the country between the Fraser River and Stuart Lake, 1865.

Western Union Telegraph Expedition : includes report from Alexander C. Anderson on the country between the Fraser River and Stuart Lake, 1865.

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Folder 5 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Includes report from James L. Butler to Major C. Conway on the Upper Fraser, May 1, 1866.

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Folder 6 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Papers from William H. Dall to Robert Kennicott including:

Western Union Telegraph Expedition, Papers from William H. Dall to Robert Kennicott.

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Copy of order from Charles S. Bulkley;

Order from Dall to Captain of steamer regarding specimen collections;

Stores;

Directions for Collecting;

Dall letter to scientific friends;

Copy of Spencer F. Baird telegram to Bulkley on Stimpson and the destruction of the Chicago Academy of Sciences;

Copy of Dall letter to George Walker, President of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, on the expedition;

Dall letter to Kennicott;

Copy of Dall memorandum to G. H. Mumford, Director of Western Union Telegraph Expedition;

Copy of Dall letter on death of Kennicott.

Folder 7 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. William Downie report to Charles S. Bulkley on the country between the Fraser and Strickeen rivers.

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Folder 8 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. William H. Ennis report to Bulkley on the season's work, 1865-1866.

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Folder 9 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. William H. Ennis (copy) to Charles S. Bulkley on the death of Robert Kennicott, June 30, 1866.

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Folder 10 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. William H. Ennis to Robert Kennicott on Norton Bay explorations, 1865.

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Folder 11 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Robert Kennicott to Charles S. Bulkley on the ascent of the Yukon, 1865.

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Folder 12 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Robert Kennicott letters to William H. Ennis, 1865-1866 (13 letters).

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Folder 13 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Robert Kennicott letter to William H. Ennis on the country between Nulato and Norton Bay, 1866; also Kennicott notes on the country between Nulato and west of Koyukuk River.

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Folder 14 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Joseph Henry letter of introduction for Robert Kennicott in regard to surveying the natural history of Russian America, March 17, 1865; Dall correspondence to Bulkley; to George C. Walker; George R. Adams to Dall; Charles S. Bulkley to Spencer F. Baird; Dall to Baird; Denison to Kennicott; William H. Ennis orders to Dyer and Cotter; Robert Kennicott to trader at Fort Yukon; Robert Kennicott field notes and diary; Bendeleben to William H. Ennis.

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Folder 15 Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Account of Dall's expenses and Charles S. Bulkley memo that Dall should not be paid for work prior to April 1867 having not obeyed orders from Ennis; Copy of Joseph Henry letter to O. H. Palmer; Contract between Dall and the Western Union Telegraph Company, 1865; Copy of F. E. Ketchum letter to Charles S. Bulkley; Robert Edurd Corten Stearns to Dall, 1867; William H. Ennis to Dall; Copy of letter Dall to Bulkley; Dall to O. H. Palmer, including copy of draft corrected by Joseph Henry; Dall to George S. Wright.

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Folder 16 W. W. Westgate. c. 1886, 1889.

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Folder 17 Alexander Wetmore. 1926-1927.

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Folder 18 Charles Abiathar White. 1884-1897.

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Folder 19 David White. 1920.

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Folder 20 Joseph Frederick Whiteaves. 1875-1887.

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Folder 21 Robert Parr Whitfield. 1870-1889.

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Folder 22 J. D. Whitney. 1871-1881.

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Folder 23 Fred Whymper. 1869-1870.

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Folder 24 Joseph Willcox. 1887-1907.

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Folder 25 N. Burton Williamson. 1890, 1900.

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Folder 26 Samuel Wendell Williston. 1886.

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Folder 27 Daniel Wilson. 1870-1889.

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Folder 28 John Wilson and Son. 1886-1889.

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Folder 29 Francis Winslow. 1879.

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Folder 30 G. E. Woodberry. 1884.

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Folder 31 A. Woodward. 1885.

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Folder 32 B. B. Woodward. 1889-1924.

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Folder 33 Henry D. Woolfe. 1884-1886.

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Folder 34 Berlin H. Wright. 1883-1893.

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Folder 35 S. Hart Wright. 1886, 1889.

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Folder 36 Jeffries Wyman. 1869, 1872.

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Folder 37 Y

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Includes M. Yarnell

Henry Cresy Yarrow

William T. Youmans

Folder 38 S. Hall Young. 1878.

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Folder 39 Zoological Society of France. 1881.

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Folder 40 Unidentified Correspondence.

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The following is an example of the correspondence located in Series 4. Material below is listed in chronological order.

Mary S. Kennicott regarding her fears over the Alaskan exploration and for Robert Kennicott's safety, 1865-1866;

Henry M. Bannister regarding Robert Kennicott's disposition, 1/9/1866;

Dall to General O. H. Palmer regarding his monetary conflict with William H. Ennis, 12/20/1865;

Letters from Elizabeth Merriam, 1869- ;

Memorandum regarding Dall's plans for his U.S.C.S. expedition, [c. 1871];

Letter of introduction from Hutchinson, Kohl and Co. for Dall's 1871 expedition to Alaska, 8/25/1871;

Dall to [Theodore Nicholas?] Gill regarding the U.S.C.S. expedition, 10/24/1871;

Dall's adoption papers for George Tsaroff, November 1872;

Spencer F. Baird regarding Dall's estimated height of Mount Saint Elias and Baird's feelings toward Henry W. Elliott, 10/11/1874;

Receipt for instruments used in the U.S.C.S. expeditions, 1874;

Photograph of Fannie Langhorn and her friends, c. 1875;

Manuscript from Bernhard Bendel on the handling of native Alaskans by the United States fur trading companies, 9/2/1875;

E. P. Herendeen on his expedition to Alaska, 9/10/1875;

Wendell Phillips Garrison in regard to printing Dall's letter in The Nation, 12/1/1877;

W. S. Washburn, J. B. Lippincott & Company, regarding the pronunciation of Alaskan names, 1/7/1878, 1/19/1878;

Commissioner, Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, regarding the establishment of schools in Alaska and its effect on tribal relations, 1/9/1878;

Josua Lindahl seeking scientific information which would aid a Swedish expedition investigating the Northeast Passage, 2/11/1878, 2/14/1878;

William Lloyd Garrison, letters of introduction for Dall, 4/1878;

Joseph Henry, letter of introduction for Dall, 5/1/1878;

J. A. Turner to Mrs. Caroline Healey Dall regarding Joseph Henry's death, 5/17/1878;

Marcus Baker regarding a labor riot in Washington, D.C., 7/29/1878;

Athenaeum (England) invitation to stay for one month, 8/6/1878; William Gouverneur Morris regarding Alaskan politics, 1879--;

Ivan Petroff regarding Alaskan politics, 1879--;

H. B. James, Chief of Customs, Treasury Department, requesting suggestions to a prepared bill dealing with the governmental organization of Alaska, 12/1/1879;

Proposed Alaskan bill prepared by the Office of the Secretary, "A Bill Authorizing the Appointment of Justices of the Peace and Constables in the Territory of Alaska, and for Other Purposes," enclosed in H. B. James' letter, 12/3/1879;

Constitution of the Biological Society of Washington, 3/16/1881;

E. P. Herendeen regarding an estimation of the number of walrus killed in Alaska each year, 3/24/1881;

A form letter asking Dall to contribute to the Republican Congressional Committee (see comment on the back side), 5/15/1882;

Marcus Baker, an interesting letter regarding Baker's feelings of friendship toward Dall, 2/9/1883;

Dall's appointment to the U.S. Geological Survey as a paleontologist, 8/11/1884;

Notification of Dall's election as Vice-President, Section H, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science;

Julius Erasmus Hilgard, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, regarding Dall's resignation from the Survey, 9/15/1884;

Dall's inventory of material turned over to Marcus Baker as instructed by Hilgard, 9/30/1884;

Attached Memorandum by Robert C. Campbell on the Yukon River, 11/16/1884;

Wendell Phillips Garrison, editor of The Nation, on the politics of James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland, 11/8/1884;

Melville Philips to The Nation in reply to editorial comments on his book, In the Lena Delta, 1/21/1885;

U.S.G.S. instructing Dall on his expedition to Florida, 3/31/1885;

Dall to George Brown Goode on materials needed for the Department of Mollusks, 1885-1886, 4/28/1885;

Dall to Thomas Francis Bayard, "Memorandum on the Alaskan Boundary as defined by the Russo-British Treaty of February 28/16, 1825," 5/4/1885;

John Wesley Powell regarding fiscal allotment for the Cenozoic Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, 6/20/1885;

Spencer F. Baird regarding improprieties of the U. S. Coast Survey, as Baird might inadvertently be doing the same thing, 7/4/1885, 7/8/1885;

Dall to Goode regarding the investigation of the U. S. Coast Survey and the means for purchasing private collections, 8/8/1885;

Personal letters from Edward E. Norton, 11/23/1885, 11/30/1885;

Joseph Willcox informing Dall of the death of Isaac Lea, 12/9/1886;

Cosmos Club letter stating Dall's election as a member to that organization, 5/2/1887;

Dall to W. W. Rice, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, on the possibility of his teaching there, 5/30/1887;

George Brown Goode regarding the uniformity of annual reports submitted by the Division of Mollusks and Cenozoic Invertebrates to the U.S. National Museum, 7/1/1890;

Correspondence with Alexander Agassiz and Georg Herman Baur regarding the exploration of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer, Albatross, 1891-1892. This includes (2) maps, February, 1871;

U.S. Geological Survey 1891 fiscal allotment for Division of Cenozoic Paleontology, 1/12/1891;

Charles D. Walcott on the temperament of Dall's report to be used as part of the U.S.G.S. Director's Twelfth Annual Report, 4/4/1891;

Notification of Dall's appointment as a member of the permanent force of the U.S.G.S. at a reduction in salary, 8/8/1892;

Cyrus Adler, Librarian, U.S. National Museum, upon receiving the donation of Dall's 101st scientific publication, 7/12/1893;

A list of the living members of the California Academy of Natural Sciences in 1895 (having joined between 1853 and 1865), 1895;

National Geographic Society By-Laws and Amendments, as of 11/19/1897, enclosed with letter dated 11/23/1897;

Geological Society of London upon Dall's election as one of the Society's foreign correspondents, 5/24/1898;

George E. Billings regarding the claims made by A. C. Rulofson on the late Captain W. G. Hall's estate, 11/4/1898;

William T. Brigham, Director of the Bernice Panahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, asking Dall if he can come to the museum to examine its collections which will be catalogued for publication, 3/8/1899;

Joseph Willcox, for the Wagner Free Institute of Science, regarding the Institute's gold medal award to be presented to Dall, 4/5/1899, 4/24/1899;

American Social Science Association invitation to Dall to become a member in recognition of his distinction as a naturalist, 11/22/1899;

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography regarding the insertion of Dall's biography in the Cyclopedia, 11/28/1899;

Director of the Mint asking Dall to estimate the production of gold and silver in Alaska in 1899, 1/11/1900;

F. S. Dellenbaugh regarding the purchasing of a punchbowl for Edward H. Harriman as a token of gratitude for the 1899 expedition, 3/5/1900; 3/7/1900; 3/31/1900; 5/10/1900;

The London Times, thanking Dall for his articles on Alaska for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6/7/1901;

G. W. Eustis regarding the memorial of Dall's son, 2/16/1902;

Louis Agassiz Gould regarding biographical information pertaining to his father, Augustus Addison Gould, 7/23/1903;

Philosophical Society of Washington regarding Dall's election as a member to its executive committee for 1904, 1/12/1904;

University of Pennsylvania regarding its decision to confer upon Dall an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, 1/20/1904;

Literary Society of Washington, D.C. regarding Dall's election as a member to that society, 1/26/1904;

Men of Mark in America in regard to using Dall's biography in their publication and the following quotation of his, "Do the work next [sic] you, and do it with all your might. Nothing is too trifling to do well, and no knowledge ultimately useless," 8/8/1904;

Literary Society of Washington, in regard to Dall's election as a member of its Executive Committee, 12/31/1905;

The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia's celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, 4/17/1906;

Boston Society of Natural History notifying Dall of his election as a Corresponding Member to that society, 4/26/1906;

Wendell Phillips Garrison regarding his resignation from editorial control, 6/28/1906;

Russell H. Chittenden, Director of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, inquiring if Dall would accept a position as Lecturer for the Silliman Foundation for 1910, 5/26/1908; Cyrus Adler regarding subscription of funds for a portrait of the late Samuel P. Langley to be presented to the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, l/19/1914;

George Washington University in regard to Dall's receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, 6/3/1915;

Dall to Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator, Department of Biology, regarding the history of T. C. Chamberlain's legacy to the Smithsonian Institution for the benefit of the Isaac Lea collection, 10/24/1916;

National Geographic Society regarding Dall's election as the first Jane M. Smith life member of the Society, 1/6/1917;

G. W. Eustis regarding the health and death of Edward E. Norton, 6/14/1917;

Material regarding mandatory retirement and an extension of Dall's position with the U. S. Geological Survey, June-July, 1920;

Otto Halla regarding prospecting along the Solomon River, Alaska, including photographs, maps, blueprints and charts, November 26-27, 1920 and 12/6/1920;

Oswald Garrison Villard, editor, The Nation, regarding Dall's discontinued subscription to the magazine as a result of an article by H. L. Mencken, 2/3/1922;

Material regarding an extension of Dall's service with the U.S.G.S., 4/22/1922, 6/10/1922;

William T. Brigham regarding his work and the decaying value of the Bernice Panahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 8/1/1922;

Committee on the Spencer F. Baird Memorial celebration, c. 1923;

American Association for the Advancement of Science in regard to giving Dall an Emeritus life membership, 4/15/1924 ;

The American Association of Museums' invitation and acceptance of Dall as a member of its society, April 1924;

Material pertaining to Dall's continuance in the U. S: Geological Survey, April-November, 1924;

Retirement of Dall from the U.S.G.S., May, 1925;

Dall to his son Charles Whitney regarding his retirement from the U.S.G.S., and future economical arrangements, 6/30/1925;

Cosmos Club finances, 5/6/1926;

H. E. Wheeler, Secretary of the Southern Conference of the American Association of Museums to Dall's son Charles Whitney, regarding a research question on Dr. Gates, whom Dall knew, 12/14/1934.

Series 5

REGISTERS OF LETTERS RECEIVED AND WRITTEN, 1865-1878, 1882-1927.

Box 19

This material also includes for the periods:

Folder 1 (1) 1868-1871, financial accounts.

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(2) 1872-1875, a visiting list.

Folder 2 (3) 1875-1878, address listings.

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All others chronological order.

Series 6

DIARIES, 1865-1927 AND UNDATED.

These diaries include narratives of Dall's Western Union Telegraph Expedition, sketches of Alaskan natives, scientific notes of other expeditions, cash accounts, addresses, day by day weather conditions, people seen, places gone to and amount of work completed during each day.

Box 20

Years 1865-1869

Diary, 1865.

Diary, 1865-1867.

Diary, 1866 - May 25, 1867.

Diary, July 14 - November 30, 1867.

Diary, December 1, 1867 - August 4, 1868.

Diary, August 1868 - July 1869.

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Box 20A

Years 1869-1879

Diary, 1872.

Diary, 1873.

Diary, 1873-1874.

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Box 21

Years 1879-1894 and undated

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Box 21A

Years 1895-1904

Years 1895-1904.

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Box 22

Years 1906-1918

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Box 22A

Years 1918-1927

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Series 7

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION NOTEBOOKS, 1865-1868 (INCLUDES GRAMMAR BOOKS AND HISTORICAL NOTES ON ALASKA). ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

This series, made up of 14 notebooks and a manuscript copy taken from the notebooks written in 1865-1866, contains material gathered from the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, mostly by Dall, with one notebook containing field notes by Henry M. Bannister regarding Ounga Island, Coal Harbor, Nicaragua, San Francisco Bay and Sitka, Alaska, 1865. Some notebooks were compiled in part from preceding diaries (6 above).

Dall's notebooks include a chronological summary of previous Alaskan expeditions, a general history of Alaska and chapter headings probably in preparation for Dall's publication on Alaska. Other notes include daily activity, weather conditions, animals caught for food or for collection purposes, descriptions of Alaskan animal life along with the flora and fauna of Alaska, its terrain, topographical observations, and location of coal deposits as well as other mineral resources. Within the notes there are lists of people Dall should write to, names of those on the expedition, and some poetry. A good portion of the notes contain descriptions of the Alaskan Indian natives, histories of the various tribes, their languages, social and religious customs, ceremonial dances, translations of Indian names, and an Alaskan Indian language and grammar book written by Dall. In conjunction with these observations there are sketches of Indian men, women, and children, Indian huts and dance houses, clothing, pipes, boots, and tattoos. Included are sketches of mollusks, the town of Nulato, Alaskan rivers and terrain, the first telegraph poles to be established in the Yukon at Nulato on January l, 1867, and descriptions and drawings of an eclipse which occurred in March 1867. There is also a Russian alphabet and grammar book written by Dall, and a copy of a collection catalogue, 1866-1867 (no. 2).

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Folders 1-8 Notebooks

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Box 23A

Folders 9-14 Notebooks

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Series 8

NOTEBOOKS, 1871-1882. UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY NOTEBOOKS, NATURAL HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTEBOOKS. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

This series of 16 notebooks includes 14 notebooks containing a various assortment of material taken from Dall's expeditions to Alaska under the auspices of the United States Coast Survey (1871-1880). This Alaskan material contains field notes, current and tidal observations, log notes regarding barometer readings and thermometer readings of the ocean. There are lists of birds, Aleutian whale names and sketches of whales along with lists of specimens of birds collected and field notes regarding strata. Four notebooks on magnetic bearings taken on board the Humboldt (1871-1874), one notebook containing the same information taken on board the Yukon (1874), and two notebooks containing weather and bearing readings on board the Yukon (1880), appear to be copies taken from other original material. The two notebooks not containing material taken under the U.S.C.S. are: (l) Natural History Short Notes and References to Papers, 1875; (2) List of Dall's publications and communications to the press, circa 1882.

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Folders 1-4 Humbolt

Field Notes while onboard the schooner, Humboldt, 1872.

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Folder 5 Yukon

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Folder 6 Yukon 1880

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Folders 7-9 Field Notes

Notes, 1871, W.H. Dall, USCS.

Field Book No. 1, Notes 4c, 1871.

Field notes, 1880. (1 of 2)

Field notes, 1880. (2 of 2)

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Box 24A

Folders 10-13 Field Notes

Field notes, 1871-1872.

Field notes - 1873 notebook No. 1.

Field notes, 1873.

Field notes, 1880.

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Folder 14 Natural History

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Folder 15 List of Publications

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Series 9

NOTEBOOKS, 1887-1910. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND NATURAL HISTORY NOTEBOOKS INCLUDING NOTEBOOKS WITHOUT DATES. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

Box 25

The following material consists mostly of field notes taken from Dall's explorations to Florida, the Pacific Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. The entire material is as follows:

Field Notes from Dall's expedition to Tampa, Florida, 1887.

Field Notes from explorations in Oregon and California, 1890, including Astoria, Eugene, Port Orford, California Valley gravels, Livermore Valley, Redding and Susanville.

Monterey to San Diego, California, Coast Tertiary, 1892.

Alaska Coal Fields, Bogosloff Volcano, Corral Hollow, California, 1895.

Southern Oregon, Coos Bay, University of California, 1897.

Oahu and Vicinity Tertiary, 1899.

Crescent City, California, Eureka, and Eel River Rio, 1901.

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Notes from the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 1887;

Field Notes from Dall's expedition to Tampa, Florida, 1887;

Field Notes from explorations in Oregon and California, 1890, including Astoria, Eugene, Port Orford, California Valley gravels, Livermore Valley, Redding and Susanville;

Monterey to San Diego, California, Coast Tertiary, 1892;

Alaska Coal Fields, Bogosloff Volcano, Corral Hollow, California, 1895. A diary consisting of daily occurrences, geological formations, weather conditions and mineral deposits;

Southern Oregon, Coos Bay, University of California, 1897. A geological study of these areas;

Oahu and Vicinity Tertiary, 1899. A marine and geological study of the area;

Notebook containing data on mollusks, 1900;

Crescent City, California, Eureka, and Eel River Rio, 1901. A geological, fossil and shell study of the area;

Notebook on San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, 1910. Lists of mollusks;

Lists of publications on geology, conchology, metallurgy, chemistry, insects, no date;

Four pocket notebooks on mollusca, identification of mollusks and geology, no date.

Series 10

CATALOGUES OF SPECIMENS TAKEN ON EXPEDITIONS, 1865-1880. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

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Catalogue of collections in natural history made in the North Pacific and sent to the Smithsonian Institution through Captain C. M. Scammon, U.S.R.M., 1865;

Specimens sent from San Francisco by Hubbard, 1865, in three boxes to the Smithsonian.

Western Union Telegraph List of Collections sent to the Smithsonian Institution by W. H. Dall, 1865.

Catalogue of Collections for 1866-1867, W.U.T.E.

Account of Outfit of the Scientific Corps of the W.U.T.E. and Catalogue of Specimens, 1867-1868.

Catalogue of collections, 1868.

Catalogue of collections, 1871-1872.

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Specimens sent from San Francisco by Hubbard, 1865, in three boxes to the Smithsonian;

Western Union Telegraph List of Collections sent to the Smithsonian Institution by W. H. Dall, 1865;

List of collections sent to the Smithsonian Institution from San Francisco by W. H. Dall, c. 1865;

Collections in natural history, c. 1866;

Copy of Catalogue of Collections for 1866-1867, No. 1, Western Union Telegraph Expedition, Dall;

Copy of Catalogue of Collections for 1867, No. 3, W.U.T.E. continued;

Collections taken on the W.U.T.E., 1865-1866;

Catalogue of Collections for 1866-1867, W.U.T.E.;

Invoice of collections received from the Bering Strait Telegraph expedition, arrived February 12, 1867;

Account of Outfit of the Scientific Corps of the W.U.T.E. and Catalogue of Specimens, 1867-1868;

Catalogue of Collections, 1868;

Catalogue of Collections, 1871-1872;

Catalogue of Collections, 1873;

Catalogue of Collections, 1874;

Catalogue of Collections, 1880.

Series 11

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS, 1867-1911. ARRANGED MOSTLY CHRONOLOGICALLY.

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Some items have been removed to oversize storage.

Notebook on Account with the Russian American Company, 1867-1868;

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Accounting notebook, 1872-1874;

Small accounting notebooks, 1888; 1892-1898; c. 1895;

Account with artists for drawings for official publications, 1902-1911.

Remainder of finances (Boxes 27-30) were incurred during the United States Coast Survey expeditions to Alaska, 1871-1876, 1879-1880, and are arranged mostly in chronological order. These include:

Shipping articles, recruitment and pay, 1871-1874;

Bills Paid, 1871-1872;

Messbills, 1871;

Bailey's Bills, 1872;

Quarter accounts, 1871-1872.

Box 28

Some items have been removed to oversize storage.

Regulations regarding proposals for building a vessel for the United States Coast Survey, 11/12/1872;

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Agreement between Isaac Hull and Dall for building a vessel, 11/20/1872;

Shipbuilders agreement, specifications, and inventories of the schooners Humboldt, S. H. Merrill and Yukon, 1873;

Bills, 1872-1873;

Bills (coin) on vessel, 1873;

Checks on Sub-Treasury Gold, 1873;

Mess bills, 1873;

Quarter accounts, 1873;

Checking account record, 1873.

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Some items have been removed to oversize storage.

Quarter accounts, 1873 to June 30, 1874;

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Bills, December 1873-1874;

Messbills, 1874;

Vouchers, 1874-March 1876;

Inventory of-the U.S.C.S. schooner Yukon, March 13, 1879.

Box 30

Some items have been removed to oversize storage.

Bills paid and vouchers made out for them, 1880;

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Navy payroll and regulations regarding use of naval forms, 1880;

Naval receipts, 1880;

Men's due bills for pay and advance paid, 1880;

Repairs, April-May 1880; Party expenses, 1880.

Series 12

EXPEDITION MATERIAL AND REPORTS, 1861-1925. ARRANGED MOSTLY CHRONOLOGICALLY.

Box 31

Alaskan maps and sketches of Alaskan natives, 1861-1867, includes:

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Russian map of Alaska and Northeast Asia, 1861;

Northwestern America showing the territory ceded by Russia to the U.S. compiled by the U.S. Coast and Survey Office, 1867 [removed to Oversize];

(5) original map drawings, c. 1866;

(1) Kennicott map c. 1866;

Sketches of Alaskan natives and their housing, c. 1866;

Notes on bearings of Alaskan towns and topography, c. 1866.

Dall plates on mollusks taken during the Western Union Telegraph Company expedition, 1866;

Colored diagram of a mollusk found in the north Pacific Ocean, July 23, 1866. [Image no. SIA2012-7918]

Colored diagram of a mollusk found in the north Pacific Ocean, August 2, 1866. [Image no. SIA2012-7915]

Colored diagram of a mollusk found in the north Pacific Ocean, August 2, 1866. [Image no. SIA2012-7916]

Colored diagram of an Atlanta Scammoni mollusk, c. 1866 [Image no. SIA2012-7917]

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Dall, Memorandum to the Secretary of the Treasury on McIntyre's report regarding Alaska, 1/28/1870;

Statement of Dall in reference to the Fur Seal of Alaska made to the Secretary of the Treasury, 2/25/1870;

Plan of Dall for the U.S. Coast Survey in Alaska, to Secretary of the Treasury, George S. Boutwell, 3/1870;

United States Coast Survey Monthly Progress Report of the Hydrographical Party, 1871-1874;

United States Coast Survey Journal of the Hydrographical Party, 1871-1874, 1880;

United States Coast Survey report of 1871-1872, Dall's copy, includes views and sketches taken from notes, bearings, and current observations;

U.S.C.S. report of 1873, includes Report, general notes on the season's work, abstract and comparison of positions and declinations, heights of mountains, abstract of deep sea and other soundings, abstract of astronomical observations and magnetics, abstract of meteorology current observations, plats Ns, sketches;

U.S.C.S. report of 1874, includes summary of observations, summary of arrivals and departures, abstract of meteorology, notes on sea temperatures, current observations, catalogue of collections, N plats, list of charts.

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Some items have been removed to oversize storage.

Report of William J. Fisher, Naturalist, U.S.S. Tuscarora Deep Sea Sounding Expedition, 1873-1874;

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(10) maps of Alaska based on different exploration teams under the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Army, 1898;

Albatross expedition records, 1887-1904, including stations, dredging reports, specimens.

Alaskan Boundary Question papers, 1888, includes:

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Correspondence with John B. Moore, Third Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State;

Thomas Francis Bayard, Secretary of State;

George M. Dawson, Geological and Natural History Survey, Canada, to Sir Charles Tupper, British Plenipotentiary at the Fisheries Conference;

George V. N. Lothrop, U.S. Legation to St. Petersburg, to Bayard;

maps;

"Memorandum on the Alaskan Boundary," report, Dall to Bayard;

"Treaty concerning the cession of the Russian possessions in North America by His Majesty The Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America," March 30, 1867.

Alaskan Coal Report Papers, 1895-1896, includes:

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"Sketch of the Geology of Alaskan Territory, with a map showing the most recent information in regard to the Distribution of the Strata," mss., n.d.;

"Report on a Collection of Fossil Plants Made in Alaska during the Summer of 1895," mss;

"Preliminary Report on Mesozoic Fossils from Alaska Collected by Dall and Becker in 1895," mss.;

maps and correspondence.

Regulations of the United States Geological Survey, Charles P. Walcott, Director, 1903;

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Instructions Relating to the Work of the United States Geological Survey, 1903;

Monthly Report Cards, U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Branch, 1909-1925.

Series 13

NOTES, MOLLUSK LISTS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND CORRESPONDENCE, 1862-C. 1923.

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Alaskan Notes and Alaskan and North American Maps, 1741-1789;

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various shell listings, 1789-1910.

Notes on Pacific Coast Mollusca, 1861-1895, includes:

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Correspondence from Henry Hemphill;

Notes on Hemphill's shells;

Charles R. Orcutt shell lists;

mollusk list, Alaskan cruise, 1888, 1889.

Dall's notes and sketches from d'Orbigney's Voyages, 1826-1833, 12/30/1862;

Dall, "Beach and shore shells of Monterey, California; collected in person with notes on geographical distribution, synonymy and habits," June 7, 1866.

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Notes on James Graham Cooper's shells, not Chitons, 1863-1867;

Descriptions of Three species of Mollusca supposed to be New from the Lake Superior Iron Region, 1864;

Dall, "Beach and shore shells of Monterey, California; collected in person with notes on geographical distribution, synonymy and habits," 6/7/1866;

list of Dall's shells, identified by P. P. Carpenter, 1870;

list of seal skin sales, 1870-1876;

Crania collected by Dall, c. 1871;

Arctic collections, 1875;

correspondence to Spencer F. Baird regarding oysters, 1875-1877;

various shell lists and correspondence pertaining to same, c. 1876-1919;

James Lewis' "Check List of the Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America Compiled for the Smithsonian Institution," with Dall's review, 2/29/1876.

Chiton material sent to Henry A. Pilsbry, c. 1876, includes the following folders:

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Chitons in collections: London, Haines, Newcomb, et. a1.;

Herman Ihering mss., "Contributions to the Anatomy of the Chiton," c. 1878;

Proofs, "Contributions Towards a Monograph of the Chitonidae," no author, c. 1873;

Manuscript portions of Carpenter's two volumes, no title, 1879.

Comparisons at the British Museum, 1878.

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The Oyster; Section of Report of the U.S. Fish Commission for 1880, including illustrations of oyster beds;

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Memoranda in regard to registration of specimens made by Joseph B. Crowe, December 1885.

Mollusk notes, Western America and Pacific Coast, 1890s-1913 including:

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James Graham Cooper's drawings of Californian shells;

Cooper, "Catalogue of the Land and Fresh-Water Mollusca of Lower California."

Correspondence with W. G. Binney regarding Galapagos shells; including drawings of shells, 1891.

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Paleontology, Pacific Coast Notes, Fossil Lists, and photographs, 1892-1909, including:

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Tertiary fossils collected by J. S. Diller;

Homer Hamlin's fossil lists;

Ralph Arnold, "Geology of the Coast of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington," c. 1904;

Ralph Arnold photographs.

Paleontology, Pacific Coast, Cooper mss., references to California Tertiary Fossils, c. 1893;

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Paleontology, Pacific Coast, Oregon notes and maps, c. 1896;

Paleontology, Pacific Coast, Homer Hamlin abstract on Geologic Notes taken in the Salinas Valley as of December 11, 1903, includes photographs;

D. A. Cockerell on Colorado Mollusca, 1897;

Haliotes, c. 1900;

Dall, Volutoid Series, mss. for Volume II on the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, Wagner Institute of Science, 1890;

William Jackson Humphreys, "Holes in the Air," c. 1912;

Frits Johansen correspondence and collections taken from his Arctic and Canadian expedition, 1915-1917;

Suggestions of Addenda and Correction to the U.S. National Bulletin 112, "Summary of the Marine Shellbearing Mollusks of the Northwest Coast of America, From San Diego, California to the Polar Sea," c. 1920;

Dall, "Two New Argentine Shells," mss., c. 1923;

Dall's notes regarding the molecular structure of organic and inorganic materials, n.d.

Two maps removed to Oversize.

Series 14

MOLLUSK LISTS AND MANUSCRIPTS, NO DATE, GOULD SCRAPBOOK ON FOSSIL COLLECTIONS, MOLLUSK PLATES, NO DATE.

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Dall, "Cypsoea reticulata and allies," n.d.;

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Dall, "F. C. Menschen in the Zoophylacium Grononianum, Explanatory Note," n.d.;

Dall, Fossil identifications, n.d. [probably a mss., but no date as to when written];

G. Dallas Hanna, "The Anatomy of Bulbus Fragilis Leach, variety aperta middendorf," n.d.;

Henry Hemphill mss. on Limpets, n.d.;

Pleurotoma, n.d.;

Pleurotoma fossil, n.d.;

various shell listings, n.d.;

material regarding Pleurodon including correspondence from Arthur Adams, n.d.;

National Museum Register of Mollusks, n.d. Mollusks identified as to locality, catalogue number, original number and collector, mostly collected by Dall. All appear to be Pacific, North Pacific and Alaskan mollusks;

Augustus Addison Gould scrapbook of fossils, primarily from his Principles of Zoology, given to Dall by Julia Gould, 1907;

W. G. Binney's Mollusk Plates: 4th supplement to Terr. Moll., n.d.;

Dall's original plate drawings, no subject heading, n.d.

Series 15

MOLLUSK PLATES.

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Dall's original mountings transferred from the Wagner Free Institute of Science on the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, 6 vols., 1890-1903, plates 1-39, 41-60.

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Dall's mollusk plates for his Report on Mollusca of the Hawaiian Islands, not published, plates 1-28.

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Series 16

GEORGE BROWN GOODE, BAIRD OUTLINES, C. 1890, AND DALL, SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, A BIOGRAPHY, MSS., 1915.

Box 38

George Brown Goode, Baird Outlines, c. 1890, and Dall, Spencer Fullerton Baird, A Biography, Mss., 1915.

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Series 17

ACCRETIONS TO THE COLLECTION

Box 39

Folder 1 Miscellaneous papers

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Folder 2 Miscellaneous papers

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Folder 3 Newspaper clippings

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Folder 4 Newspaper clippings

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Folder 5 Obituary Notices, 1897-1921 (Accession 06-230)

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Folders 1-3 Newspaper clippings

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Folders 1-3 Newspaper clippings

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Folders 1-3 Newspaper clippings

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Folder 4 Alaska Times

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Folder 5 The North Star

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Box 43

Folder 1 The Alaska Appeal

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Folder 2 The Alaskan, vol. I

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Folder 3 The Alaskan, vol. II

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Folder 4 The Alaskan, vol. III

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Folder 1 The Alaskan, vol. IV

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Folder 2 The Alaskan, vol. V

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Folder 1 The Alaskan, vol. VI

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Folder 2 The Alaskan, vol. VII

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Box 46

Folder 1 The Alaskan, vol. VIII

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Folder 2 The Alaskan, vol. IX

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Box 47

Folder 1 Scrapbook May 23, 1873 to April 15, 1874

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Folder 2 Scrapbook December 1874 to April 1878

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Folder 3 Scrapbook 1879 to 1880

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Folder 4 Scrapbook 1881

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Box 48

Folder 1 Scrapbook 1881 to 1882, Jeanette and Rodgers expedition

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Folder 2 Scrapbook 1882, Jeanette expedition

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Folder 3 Scrapbook July 1882 to January 1883

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Folder 4 Scrapbook 1883, Proteus expedition

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Folder 5 Scrapbook January-July 1884, Greely rescue

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Box 49

Folder 1 Scrapbook July 1884 to February 1885

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Folder 2 Scrapbook March 1885 to September 1886

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Folder 3 Scrapbook September 1886 to September 1887

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Folder 4 Scrapbook October 1887 to August 1889

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Folder 5 Scrapbook August 1887 to August 1890, Bering Sea

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Box 50

Folder 1 Scrapbook August 1890 to April 1891

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Folder 2 Scrapbook May 3, 1891 to November 22, 1891

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Folder 3 Scrapbook December 2, 1891 to June 19, 1892

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Folder 4 Scrapbook September 1892 to December 1893

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Folder 5 Scrapbook January 1894 to October 1895

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Folder 6 Scrapbook September 1895 to October 1896

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Box 51

Folder 1 Scrapbook October 1896 to July 1897

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Folder 2 Scrapbook July 22, 1897 to August 29, 1997

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Folder 3 Scrapbook August 29, 1897 to October 19, 1897

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Folder 4 Scrapbook October 13, 1897 to December 26, 1897

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Folder 5 Scrapbook December 22, 1897 to February 21, 1898

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Folder 6 Scrapbook February 22, 1898 to July 17, 1898

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Box 52

Folder 1 Scrapbook July 1898 to December 30, 1898

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Folder 2 Photographs of Alaska, Smithsonian Building, native artifacts, and miscellaneous views (some by Muybridge, T. W. Smillie, and Brady) (copy prints)

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Box 53

Photographs of Alaska, Smithsonian Building, native artifacts, and miscellaneous views (some by Muybridge, T. W. Smillie, and Brady)

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Boxes 54-56

Index cards containing bibliographic information

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Folder 1 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, November 24, 1877 (2 sheets)

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The Sunday Star, Washington, DC, February 8, 1925, Graphic Section

Map - Explorations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, February-April 1891

Map - Galapagos Islands Showing Explorations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, February-April 1891

Certificate of William H. Dall’s United States Citizenship, April 13, 1878

Map - Map of Solomon River Delta, Alaska, Cape Nome Precinct, November 1920 (2 copies)

Map - Topographic Map of Solomon Quadrangle, Alaska, 1909

Shipping Articles for the Naval Service, for Persons Shipping on Sea-Going Vessels (7 sheets)

Quarterly Pay Receipt, Muster Rolls, and Expenditures, 1871-1874

Muster Rolls, Description of Deserters, Quarterly Return, and Enlistments on the U.S.S. Yukon, 1880

Folder 2 Drawing of Belknaps Deep-Sea Sounding Cylinder No. 1

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Drawing of Belknaps Deep-Sea Sounding Cylinder No. 1

Map - Map of a portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, 1887

Map - Topographic Sheet, Oregon, Coos Bay Quadrangle, 1898

Map - California and Oregon (partial)

Map - Geological Map of San Diego and Vicinity, 1894

Elevation - Section Along the Pacific Ocean of Pacific Beach, San Diego County, California, 1894

Map - Los Angeles (partial)

Plates - Trans. Wagner Inst. Science, Vol. III (2 plates)

Maps - Maps of Alaska Showing Explorations by U.S. Geological Survey, 1898 (Maps 1-10)

Folder 3 Map - North Western America Showing the Territory Ceded by Russia to the United States, 1867

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Russian map - Alaska and Northeast Asia, 1861

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Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927

William Healey Dall Papers, circa 1839-1858, 1862-1927

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