Reference Request
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7318
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000
G. Arthur Cooper Papers, 1923-1993 and undated,with material from 1878 to 1892
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
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| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000 |
| Title: | G. Arthur Cooper Papers |
| Dates: | 1923-1993 and undated,with material from 1878 to 1892 |
| Quantity: | 18.61 cu. ft. (36 document boxes) (1 half document box) (2 3x5 boxes) (1 oversize folder) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 7318 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | These papers consist primarily of scientific correspondence relating to taxonomic identification and the loan and exchange of specimen material. Correspondents include Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Helen M. Muir-Wood, Charles Schuchert, Edward Oscar Ulrich, and Alwyn Williams. Also present is routine administrative correspondence documenting Cooper's tenure as Head Curator of the Department of Geology. Material compiled by his predecessors is also included. Of special interest is correspondence relating to bequests; nineteenth-century correspondence among brachiopod specialists; reports regarding the modernization of exhibits; and field notes and manuscripts of William F. Foshag, who preceded Cooper as Head Curator in the Department of Geology. Extensive field notes from the two major localities where Cooper collected, the Hamilton formation of New York State and the Glass Mountain region of West Texas, are present, as well as from expeditions to the eastern and central United States, Quebec, and New Brunswick. The field notes for some of this work are complemented by photographs. Also included are manuscripts of papers and speeches, Cooper's complete M.S. thesis, and an incomplete draft of his Ph.D. dissertation. |
Historical Note
G. Arthur Cooper (1902- ), paleobiologist emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), distinguished himself as an authority on the taxonomy and stratigraphy of Paleozoic brachiopods. He first developed an interest in natural history by collecting insects and minerals during his childhood in New York. During his adolescence his interest in minerals grew, and he received his B.S. degree in chemistry with a minor in geology from Colgate University in 1924. Cooper continued research on stratigraphy of upper New York state and was awarded the M.S. degree from Colgate University in 1926 on the merits of this work. Cooper continued his graduate studies at Yale University under Carl O. Dunbar and Charles Schuchert. Under Schuchert's direction, he began his study of fossil brachiopods, an interest he maintained throughout his career. He received his Ph.D. in 1929, focusing on the stratigraphy of the Hamilton formation. While at Yale, he also served as assistant curator, 1928-1929, and research associate, 1929-1930, in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Cooper came to the Smithsonian in 1930 as assistant curator in the Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology of the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1941, he advanced to associate curator and in 1944 to curator of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology. He was appointed head curator of the Department of Geology in 1957, and oversaw its division into the separate departments of Paleobiology and Mineral Sciences in 1963. He continued as chairman of the Department of Paleobiology through 1967 when he was appointed senior paleobiologist. After his retirement from federal service in 1974, he continued his research at the Smithsonian as paleobiologist emeritus until 1987.
During his years as an administrator, the paleobiology staff grew from two in 1944 to twenty in 1967 as Cooper sought to fill gaps of coverage in the department. Cooper was also the motivating force behind the split of the Department of Geology into two separate departments in 1963. By implementing these changes he stimulated growth and focused research on paleobiology. He also involved himself in space planning and supervision of the move into the new wings of the Natural History Building in 1963-1965.
Cooper is well known for his research on the taxonomy and stratigraphy of Paleozoic brachiopods. His major monographs include: Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda (1938 with E. O. Ulrich), Chazyan and Related Brachiopods (1956), Morphology, Classification, and Life Habits of Productoids (Brachiopoda) (1960 with Helen M. Muir-Wood), and Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, vols. 1-6 (1969-1977 with Richard E. Grant). Throughout his career, he conducted extensive field work in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, significantly increasing both the range and depth of the national collections. Under his guidance, an acid-etching laboratory was established for work with silicified fossils, notably Permian brachiopods from the Glass Mountains of Texas. He also developed his own photographic laboratory, where he produced over fifty thousand images from the collections. Many honors have been presented to Cooper over the years, including the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, 1958; the Paleontological Society Medal, 1964; the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, 1979; the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1983; and the James Hall Medal of the New York State Geological Survey, 1986.
Chronology
- 1902
- Born in College Point, Long Island, N.Y., February 9
- 1924
- B.S. degree, Phi Beta Kappa, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
- 1926
- M.S. degree, Colgate University
- 1928
- Research assistant, invertebrate paleontology, Yale University
- 1928
- Field work on Devonian stratigraphy of Hamilton Group of New York
- 1929
- Ph.D., Yale University
- 1929
- Research associate, invertebrate paleontology, Yale University
- 1929
- Field work with Charles Schuchert, Gaspe, Quebec
- 1930 Married Josephine P. Wells
- 1930
- Assistant curator, USNM, Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology
- 1931
- Assistant curator, USNM, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
- 1932
- Field work in Gaspe, Quebec; New Brunswick; Eastern New York
- 1935
- USNM acidizing program begun
- 1938
- Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda published with Edward Oscar Ulrich
- 1939
- Field work on Permian brachiopods of Glass Mountains, Texas
- 1941
- Associate curator, USNM, Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology
- 1942
- Associate curator, USNM, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany
- 1942
- Geological Society of America (GSA) published Devonian correlation chart with Cooper's concepts of facies, zonation, and stages
- 1942
- Received Washington Academy of Sciences Award in the Biological Sciences
- 1942
- Acid etching laboratory installed in NHB
- 1943
- Field work in Sonora, Mexico, on Cambrian sequence with Alberto R. V. Arellano and Ignecio Flores
- 1944
- Curator, USNM, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
- 1945
- Field work in Sonora, Mexico, completed
- 1953
- Awarded Honorary D.Sc., Colgate University
- 1956
- Acting head curator, USNM, Department of Geology
- 1956
- Chazyan and Related Brachiopods published
- 1957
- Head curator, USNM, Department of Geology
- 1958
- President of Paleontological Society
- 1958
- Awarded Mary Clark Thompson Medal of National Academy of Sciences
- 1960
- Morphology, Classification, and Life Habits of Productoids (Brachiopoda) published with Helen Muir-Wood
- 1963
- Department of Geology split into Department of Paleobiology and Department of Mineral Sciences; Cooper appointed chairman of Department of Paleobiology
- 1964
- Awarded Paleontological Society Medal
- 1967
- Resigned in February as chairman of Department of Paleobiology and appointed senior paleobiologist, NMNH
- 1969
- Traveled to England and Poland
- 1969
- First volume of Permian Brachiopods of West Texas published, with Richard E. Grant
- 1972
- Retired from NMNH and appointed paleobiologist emeritus, February 29
- 1979
- Awarded Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of National Academy of Sciences
- 1981
- Awarded Raymond C. Moore Medal of Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
- 1983
- Awarded Penrose Medal of GSA
- 1986
- Awarded James Hall Medal of the New York State Geological Survey
- 1987
- Retired from active research at NMNH as paleobiologist emeritus
Introduction
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry
The papers of G. Arthur Cooper offer broad documentation of his professional career. The collection documents his interest in taxonomy and stratigraphy; his scientific research on fossil brachiopods; his extensive field work in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; his curatorial duties and administrative activities in the Departments of Geology and Paleobiology, NMNH, including the development of the invertebrate paleontological collections; and his role in professional societies.
Series 1 consists mainly of the extensive correspondence Cooper maintained with scientific colleagues in the paleontological community worldwide between 1940 and 1987. Incoming and outgoing correspondence documents the exchange of ideas and information on taxonomic identifications and classifications; field work; and the loan and acquisition of fossil specimens. Scientific correspondence files also include photographs of specimens for identification; obituaries of colleagues; and nineteenth-century letters of Edward Oscar Ulrich and Thomas Davidson used for research purposes.
Series 2 contains travel and grant files, 1927-1968, that document communication with the Department while Cooper was in the field and records pertaining to grants for scientific research. It includes correspondence, memoranda, travel expense records, and itineraries from field trips, as well as grant proposals and records on Cooper's involvement in various professional societies.
Cooper's role as an administrator at the USNM and NMNH is documented in series 3. The correspondence, dated between 1933 and 1967, concerns activities of professional societies; bequests, including nineteenth-century correspondence and copies of wills and bequests; the relationship between the department and the Smithsonian Libraries; the Exhibits Modernization Program; and the opening of the paleontological halls, 1961-1963. Also included are a notebook, several manuscripts, and one folder of correspondence created by William F. Foshag during his tenure as head curator of the Department of Geology.
Overlap exists between series 1, scientific correspondence, and series 3, administrative correspondence; therefore, researchers should check both to ensure a complete search.
Series 4 consists of Cooper's manuscripts and text of speeches written before his arrival at the USNM and during the course of his career. Of special interest are Cooper's M.S. thesis, "Hamilton Group in Hamilton Township," and an incomplete draft of his Ph.D. dissertation, "Hamilton Group of New York." Oversize figures for several of these manuscripts are housed off site. It is recommended that researchers make prior arrangements with the reference staff when requesting this material.
Series 5 and 6 consist of field notes, photographs, and slides taken by Cooper during his collecting trips. Field notes and photographs from his early work in New York State, the Gaspe region of Quebec, and a variety of localities across the United States are included in these divisions. His field work and research on the Hamilton formation in New York and Glass Mountains in Texas are especially well documented.
Additional information about Cooper can be found in Record Unit 328, the chairman's files of the Department of Paleobiology, 1940-1978; Record Unit 9523, oral history interviews of Cooper; and Record Unit 9529, videohistory interviews of Cooper.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991
- Colgate University
- Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000
- Foshag, William F. (William Frederick), 1894-1956
- Grant, Richard E., 1927-1994
- Muir-Wood, Helen M. (Helen Marguerite)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Geology
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Paleobiology
- Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942
- Ulrich, E. O. (Edward Oscar), 1857-1944
- United States National Museum. Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology
- Williams, Alwyn
- Yale University
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7318, G. Arthur Cooper Papers
Container List
Series 1
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE, 1904-1993 AND UNDATED WITH RELATED MATERIALS FROM 1865-1892.This series consists of the scientific correspondence of G. Arthur Cooper. His professional correspondence primarily concerns ongoing research, the traffic of museum brachiopod specimens through loans and acquisitions, and personal exchanges with colleagues and friends. Maps, photographs of specimens, and manuscripts are scattered throughout these files. Several fossil specimens were removed from the collection and returned to the National Museum of Natural History. Incoming and outgoing correspondence are both present. The files are arranged alphabetically by personal or organizational name, or by subject. Cooper's files were well-organized, and the Archives has maintained this order. Because of the quantity of correspondence relating to the loan and acquisition of specimens, the collection provides an excellent record of brachiopod traffic through and from the Institution during Cooper's tenure. A small percentage of the material in this series is dated prior to the 1940s; the files for Thomas Davidson and Edward Oscar Ulrich contain correspondence from the nineteenth century.
Box 1
Folder 1 A-Al, general
Folder 2 Alvarez, Fernando, 1978-1979, 1982-1986
Folder 3 Am-Aq, general
Folder 4 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1957-1958, 1962. Consists of Cooper's comments as referee on grant proposals.
Folder 5 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1964. Consists of Cooper's comments as referee on grant proposals.
Folder 6 American Association of Museums, circa 1961
Folder 7 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1963-1964 and undated
Folder 8 American Museum of Natural History, 1958-1960, 1962-1963, 1968
Folder 9 American Philosophical Society, 1959-1964. Includes Cooper's comments as referee on grant proposals.
Folder 10 Ammentorp, W. F., 1965
Folders 11-12 Amsden, Thomas W., 1957-1963, 1965-1972, 1980, 1982
Folder 13 Ar-Az, general
Folder 14 Araki, Hideo, 1965-1966. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 15 Arellano, Alberto R. V., 1957-1958, 1960-1961
Folder 16 Armstrong, Augustus K., 1960-1962
Folder 17 Arnaud, Patrick M., 1974-1975, 1978-1979, 1982
Folder 18 B-Bays, general
Folder 19 Baker, Charles Lawrence, 1961
Folder 20 Baker, Peter G., 1974-1975
Box 2
Folder 1 Balk, Christina Lochman, 1956-1962, 1964-1965, 1967
Folder 2 Ball, H. W., 1966, 1968, 1970-1971
Folder 3 Bamber, E. Wayne, 1961, 1963, 1968-1969
Folder 4 Barczyk (Popiel-Barczyk), Ewa, 1968-1969, 1976-1977
Folder 5 Barnes, Virgil E., 1958, 1963, 1968, 1971-1972. Includes twenty-eight-page appendix on Moore Hollow Group fossil collections.
Folder 6 Bassett, Michael G., 1966, 1973-1978, 1980, 1983-1984
Folder 7 Batten, Roger Lyman, 1957-1964, 1966, 1968, 1973
Folder 8 Bayer, Fredrick Merkle (Ted), 1965, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972-1973, 1975
Folder 9 Be, general
Folder 10 Bell, W. Charles, 1960-1961, 1963, 1968, 1976
Folder 11 Berry, William B. N., 1959-1963, 1967-1968, 1974
Folder 12 Bh-Bl, general
Folder 13 Biernat, Gertruda, 1958-1962, 1965-1971, 1973-1974, 1976-1978, 1982-1984, 1986. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 14 Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, 1964-1965
Folder 15 Blair, Charles S., 1957, 1959-1962, 1965-1966, 1968
Folder 16 Blakemore, William B., 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965-1968, 1970, 1977
Folder 17 Blount, Donald N., 1966. Includes a field map of Chiantla, Guatemala.
Folder 18 Bo, general
Box 3
Folder 1 Bolli, Hans M., 1959-1961, 1967
Folder 2 Boltovskoy, Esteban, 1957-1959, 1965
Folder 3 Boneham, Roger F., 1966
Folders 4-5 Boucot, Arthur James, 1963-1971, 1975-1978, 1980-1984, 1986. See also: Faul, Henry, Box 7, Folder 12.
Folder 6 Boullier, Annick, 1980, 1984-1985
Folder 7 Bowsher, Arthur Leroy, Sr., 1958, 1962-1968, 1973, 1978, 1983
Folder 8 Br, general
Folder 9 Bransia, Leonard, 1963-1970
Folder 10 Branson, Carl C., 1958-1959, 1961-1968
Folder 11 Bridges, Luther W., 1960-1961, 1964
Folder 12 British Museum (Natural History), 1960, 1965, 1968 and undated
Folder 13 Brooks, Harold Kelley, 1960-1963, 1965-1966
Folder 14 Broughton, John G., 1960-1967
Folder 15 Brown, David A., 1958-1960, 1964, 1973
Folders 16-17 Brunton, Howard, 1963-1975, 1977-1987
Folder 18 Bu-By, general
Folder 19 Buechner, Helmut Karl, 1967
Box 4
Folder 1 Burch, Beatrice L. (Mrs. John Thomas Burch), 1966, 1968, 1971-1973, 1976, 1980, 1984
Folder 2 Burch, John Q., 1958-1959, 1962-1963
Folder 3 Bureau, Rene, 1948, 1960, 1964-1966, 1970, 1980, 1984
Folder 4 C-Ca, general
Folder 5 Caldwell, W. Glen E., 1960-1967, 1969-1970, 1985-1986
Folder 6 Cambridge, Philip, 1948, 1952-1968 and undated
Folder 7 Campbell, Guy, 1942-1943, 1946-1948, 1950, 1953-1955, 1959, 1965-1966 and undated. Includes field maps and stratigraphic tables.
Folder 8 Campbell, Kenneth S. W., 1953-1958, 1961-1962, 1964-1966, 1969 and undated
Folder 9 Canada, Geological Survey, 1957-1958, 1960-1961. See also: Geological Survey of Canada, Box 9, Folder 9.
Folder 10 Casanova, Richard L., 1952-1963, 1965-1966
Folder 11 Caster, Kenneth E., 1948-1965, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1983. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 12 Ch-Ci, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 13 Chilman, Ruth E. (Mrs. William A. Chilman), 1964-1969, 1971, 1977-1978
Box 5
Folder 1 Chuang, S. H., 1953, 1956, 1958-1960, 1962-1972, 1974-1975
Folder 2 Cl, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 3 Claude, Falconetti, 1984. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 4 Cleland, Herdman Fitzgerald, 1935 and undated. Includes newspaper article about Cleland's death.
Folder 5 Cloud, Preston E., Jr., 1962-1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983
Folder 6 Coa-Con, general
Folder 7 Coo-Cow, general
Folder 8 Coates, Anthony G., 1962-1963, 1966-1968, 1970, 1976 and undated. Includes travel expenses and itinerary.
Folder 9 Cocks, L. Robin M., 1968-1969, 1971-1973, 1975-1977, 1985-1987
Folder 10 Conrad, Pearson, 1961-1962, 1965. Includes correspondence with his son, Michael M. Conrad, and photographs of Pearson Conrad, unidentified individuals, and collecting locations.
Folder 11 Cook, Earl F., 1966
Folder 12 Cooke, C. Wythe, 1956, 1959, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1969 and undated. Includes reprint of Edward G. Reinhard, 1958, "Rhizocephala of the Family Peltogastridae Parasitic on the West Indian Species of Galatheidae," Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Volume 108, pp. 295-307.
Folder 13 Cooper, Byron Nelson, 1950-1958, 1961, 1966-1967, 1969-1971
Folder 14 Copeland, Murray J., 1959-1960, 1962-1966, 1987
Box 6
Folder 1 Cowen, Richard, 1967-1969. Includes manuscript, "Stegidal Structures in Spiiferide Brachiopods," by Cowen, submitted to Science, January 1968.
Folder 2 Cr-Cz, general
Folder 3 Cramer, Howard R., 1958, 1961, 1963-1964, 1973, 1975
Folder 4 D-Da, general
Folder 5 d'Hondt, Jean-Loup, 1973-1986
Folder 6 Dallas Museum of Natural History, 1966-1967
Folder 7 Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas [Caroline Davidson], 1878, 1880-1884. Includes correspondence to and from the Davidsons regarding brachiopod material and copy of drawing of "Bouchard on his way to heaven," drawn by Thomas Davidson. These letters were to be used in an annotated transcript by Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. See also: Richardson, Eugene S., Jr., Box 17, Folder 15.
Folder 8 David-Stewart Publishing Company, 1966
Folder 9 Dawson, Elliot W., 1957-1959, 1964-1966, 1968, 1971-1972, 1975-1978, 1980, 1982
Folder 10 De, general
Folder 11 DeKeyser, Thomas, 1975, 1977, 1979-1980. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 12 Di-Do, general
Folder 13 Dr-Dy, general
Folder 14 Dunbar, Carl O., 1957-1962, 1965-1966, 1971, 1973-1974, 1976, 1979
Folder 15 Durden, Christopher J., 1964, 1967-1968
Folder 16 Durkoop, Arnfrid, 1967-1968, 1971, 1974
Folder 17 E-El, general
Folder 18 Easton, William H., 1954-1957, 1970-1971
Box 7
Folder 1 Ehlers, George M., 1946-1947, 1952-1964, 1966
Folder 2 Elias, Maxwell Kondradovich, 1947, 1951-1957, 1966 and undated. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 3 Elliot, Graham F., 1952, 1955-1960, 1973
Folder 4 Ellison, Robert Lee, 1959, 1961, 1965
Folder 5 Em-Ew, general
Folder 6 Endo, Ritsu, 1951-1953, 1955-1957, 1959-1962, 1965-1966, 1970 and undated. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 7 Erben, H. K., 1959-1961, 1963-1965
Folder 8 Evitt, William R., 1952-1955, 1978
Folder 9 Fa-Fe, general
Folder 10 Fagerstrom, J. A., 1965-1968, 1980-1981
Folder 11 Fairbridge, Rhodes Whitmore, 1963-1964, 1971. Includes Cooper manuscript, "Brachiopoda," for the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, circa 1964.
Folder 12 Faul, Henry, 1963, 1967, 1969-1970. See in reference to Arthur James Boucot, Box 3, Folders 4-5.
Folder 13 Fawcett, Afton, 1962-1965
Folder 14 Federowski, Jerzey, 1974-1978, 1980, 1986-1987
Folder 15 Feldman, Howard R., 1976, 1978-1979, 1983-1987
Folder 16 Ferguson, Laing, 1961-1962, 1967-1968. Includes manuscript by Ferguson, "Possible Brood Pouches and Sexual Dimorphism in the Productid Megousia, Muir-Wood and Cooper, 1960," and photographs of specimens.
Folder 17 Fi-Fl, general
Box 8
Folder 1 Finks, Robert M., 1953-1957, 1959-1962, 1964, 1966, 1968-1969, 1982
Folder 2 Fischer, Alfred G., 1957-1960, 1962-1963, 1968, 1981, 1983
Folder 3 Fisher, Donald W., 1953-1964, 1966-1967, 1971-1972, 1980. Includes "Memorial to Winifred Goldring (1888-1971)" by Fisher.
Folder 4 Fisher, Richard S., 1964. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folders 5-6 Flower, Rousseau H., 1952-1957, 1960, 1963-1968, 1970-1978, 1981, 1983-1987 and undated. Includes field notes by Flower, chart and photographs of specimens.
Folder 7 Flower, Rousseau H., manuscript, "American Lituitidae," undated
Folder 8 Fo-Fu, general
Folder 9 Foster, Merrill W., 1965-1977, 1980, 1984, 1986
Box 9
Folder 1 Fulbright-Hays Awards, 1963. Contains reference for Fulbright-Hays award for Kenneth E. Caster.
Folder 2 Furnish, William M., 1957-1968, 1970-1971, 1973, 1975-1976 and undated. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 3 Ga-Gi, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 4 Gale, Hoyt Rodney, 1956-1957
Folder 5 Gallitelli, Eugenia Montanaro, 1953, 1955, 1957-1958, 1961, 1969-1972
Folder 6 Gauri, K. Lal, 1962-1965, 1967-1970, 1977
Folder 7 Geological Society of America, Inc., 1964-1968, 1970, 1971-1972, 1983. Includes abstract, "Evolution of the Richthofeniacea," 1968, by G. Arthur Cooper and material relating to the 96th annual conference, 1983.
Folder 8 Geological Society of Washington, 1961
Folder 9 Geological Survey of Canada, 1953-1956, 1966 and undated. See also: Canada, Geological Survey of, Box 4, Folder 9.
Folder 10 Geological Survey of India, 1946, 1949, 1952-1954, 1957
Folder 11 Geological Survey, United States, 1904, 1923-1924, 1927, 1929-1930, 1932-1933, 1940-1942, 1944-1945, 1947-1957, 1971. See also: United States Geological Survey, Box 29, Folder 2.
Folder 12 Gerk, Arthur J., 1973, 1976-1980
Folder 13 Gill, Edmund D., 1952, 1954-1956, 1958-1959, 1965-1966, 1968, 1972-1974 and undated
Folder 14 Gl-Go, general
Folder 15 Glenister, Brian F., 1960-1961, 1963, 1965-1968, 1970-1971, 1978, 1986-1987
Folder 16 Gorby Cabinet, 1963-1964. Includes, "A Report on the Contents, Condition, and Scientific, Educational, and Monetary Value of the Gorby Cabinet at Franklin College," by Robert H. Shaver.
Box 10
Folder 1 Gr-Gu, general
Folder 2 Graf, John Enos, 1936, 1941, 1944-1952, 1954, 1956
Folder 3 Graffham, Allen, 1954, 1956, 1959-1960, 1962, 1965, 1967-1968
Folder 4 Graham, John, 1963-1964, 1966-1967
Folder 5 Grand Canyon National Park, 1964-1965
Folder 6 Gregoire, Charles, 1959, 1961, 1963
Folder 7 Grunt, T. A., 1979-1981 and undated
Folder 8 Haar-Hard, general
Folder 9 Hark-Haze, general
Folder 10 Hadley, Franklin E., 1982-1984, 1986 and undated
Folder 11 Ham, William E., 1952-1953, 1956, 1962, 1964, 1966-1967
Folder 12 Hanzawa, Shoshiro, 1959-1961
Folder 13 Haque, A. F. M. Mohsenul, 1957-1960, 1962
Folder 14 Harlow, Francis H., 1956-1957, 1960
Folder 15 Harper, Charles, Jr., 1960, 1963-1966, 1968, 1973
Folder 16 Hatten, Charles W., 1959-1960, 1962-1963
Folder 17 He, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 18 Heckel, Philip H., 1962, 1964-1966, 1970
Folder 19 Hess, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. [Mary R. Hess], 1957-1959, 1961, 1963, 1965-1968, 1970, 1976
Box 11
Folder 1 Hib-Hol, general
Folder 2 Hom-Hoy, general
Folder 3 Horowitz, Alan, 1959-1960, 1964-1965
Folder 4 House, Michael R., 1958-1960, 1962-1966, 1971-1972, 1979
Folder 5 Howe, Herbert J., 1962-1969, 1972-1973. Includes several research grant proposals by Howe submitted to the National Science Foundation.
Folder 6 Howell, B. F., 1952-1957, 1964
Folder 7 Hu-Hy, general
Folder 8 Hughes, Thomas S., Collection, 1962-1963, 1978
Folder 9 Humble Oil and Refining Company, 1957-1958
Folder 10 I, general
Folder 11 Imbrie, John, 1952-1956, 1964
Folder 12 International Symposium on the Devonian System, 1967. Includes announcement.
Folder 13 Jaa-Jep, general
Folder 14 Jer-Jus, general
Folder 15 Japanese Fossil Dealers, 1961, 1963
Folder 16 Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1958, 1960-1964, 1966-1967, 1969
Folder 17 Johns Hopkins University, undated. Includes material on studies in Earth Sciences.
Box 12
Folder 1 Johnson, Helgi B., 1969
Folders 2-3 Johnson, Jesse Granville, 1961-1976, 1979, 1981. Includes curriculum vitae for Johnson for 1968 and 1971.
Folder 4 Jux, Ulrich, 1961-1962, 1964-1966
Folder 5 Ka-Ke, general
Folder 6 Kansas, University of, Information Circular, undated
Folder 7 Kay, Marshall, 1957-1959, 1961-1965, 1968-1969. Includes rubber impression of brachiopod.
Folder 8 Keith, Bernard, 1959-1964, 1968, 1978
Folder 9 Kelly, Frank B., 1966-1967. Includes photograph of specimen.
Folder 10 Kesling, Robert V., 1957-1958, 1959-1962, 1971
Folder 11 Kh-Kl, general
Folder 12 Kibby, T. A., 1964-1965
Folder 13 Kienzlen, Mr. and Mrs. Gerry, 1963-1964
Folder 14 King, Philip, 1957, 1960, 1962-1963, 1965, 1973. Includes "data sheet" for Boris Aleksandrovich Saveliev, circa 1965.
Folder 15 Kirkby, Ruth A., 1960-1961, 1963-1965, 1967-1968, 1973
Folders 16-17 Klapper, Gilbert, 1965-1972. Includes manuscript, "Evolutionary development of the Icriodus latericrescens Group (Conodonta) in the Devonian of Europe and North America," by Gilbert Klapper and Willi Ziegler, circa 1965-1966.
Folder 18 Kn-Ko, general
Folder 19 Kopf, Max J., Collection, 1962-1963
Folder 20 Kozlowski, Roman, 1958-1961, 1965, 1968-1969, 1974
Box 13
Folder 1 Kr-Ky, general
Folder 2 Kummel, Bernhard, 1957, 1959-1960, 1963-1965, 1967-1972
Folder 3 La-Le, general. Includes photographs of specimens under Legrand and Lewis.
Folder 4 Laird, Marshall, 1968. Includes "Brachiopods of the Northwest Atlantic, and Prospective Research," written by Cooper for use by Expert Advisory Group on Marine Sciences, August 1968.
Folder 5 Lane, Gary, 1963, 1965, 1968-1972
Folder 6 Langenheim, Ralph L., Jr., 1957-1958, 1960-1961, 1963-1964, 1968, 1970
Folder 7 Leanza, Armando F., 1961-1963, 1966 and undated notes.
Folder 8 Lecompte, Marius, 1957-1959, 1961-1963, 1967, 1969. Includes biographical information for Lecompte circa 1958 and 1962.
Folder 9 Lecompte, Marius, manuscript entitled, "A Response to Mr. J. St. Jean, Jr.," circa 1958. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 10 LeCroy, Archie, 1963, 1966-1967
Folder 11 Lee, Daphnee, 1978-1979, 1981, 1986, 1992-1993. Includes photograph of specimen.
Folder 12 Lenz, Alfred C., 1959-1961, 1966, 1977
Folder 13 Levorson, Calvin O., 1963- 1967, 1969, 1973-1974
Folder 14 Li-Ly, general
Folder 15 Liberty, Bruce A., 1958, 1963, 1966
Folder 16 Licharev, Boris K., 1963-1964
Folder 17 Logan, Alan, 1960, 1962-1965, 1971-1972, 1974-1979 and undated
Folder 18 Lowenstam, Heinz A., 1958-1962, 1964, 1966-1968, 1970-1973
Folder 19 Lowry, W. D., 1958-1959, 1966-1968, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982
Box 14
Folder 1 Maa-Mam, general. Includes photograph of Cooper with unidentified individual. See Macorini for biographical material on Cooper.
Folder 2 Man-May, general. Includes photograph of specimen under Mancendio.
Folder 3 MacClintock, Copeland, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968
Folder 4 Macurda, Donald B., Jr., 1962-1963, 1965-1966, 1970-1972
Folder 5 Mayers, Mary, 1965-1966
Folder 6 Mc, general
Folder 7 McAlester, A. Lee, 1963-1964, 1967, 1969. Includes biographical material on McAlester, circa 1964.
Folder 8 McCammon, Helen M., 1965-1968, 1971 and undated
Folder 9 McGaha, James, 1966
Folder 10 McGugan, Alan, 1963-1964, 1966-1967 and undated
Folder 11 McLaren, Digby J., 1958-1965, 1968-1969, 1972, 1974
Folder 12 Me, general
Folder 13 Merriam, Charles Warren, 1958-1959, 1963, 1967-1968
Folder 14 Mi-Ml, general
Folder 15 Mo-Mz, general
Folder 16 Mohamed, Farouk Mohamed Teleb, 1961-1964, 1970, 1973
Box 15
Folders 1-2 Moore, Raymond, 1957-1968, 1970-1972. Includes manuscript, "Trends and Outlooks in Paleontology: Brachiopods," by Cooper, circa 1968.
Folder 3 Moyle, Richard W., 1959, 1961-1963
Folder 4 Muir-Wood, Helen M., 1956-1964, 1966
Folder 5 Muller, Klaus J., 1960-1961, 1963, 1966-1967
Folder 6 Murray, Grover E., 1959-1964, 1979, 1983
Folder 7 Na-Nes, general
Folder 8 National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Paleontology, 1963-1964 and undated. Includes minutes of meetings and assorted notes.
Folder 9 National Science Foundation, 1956, 1960 and undated. Includes two proposals for which Cooper is principal investigator and photographs of specimens.
Folder 10 National Science Foundation. Includes proposals by C. W. Harper, 1967; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1966; Randall Scott Spencer, 1970; and Alfred M. Ziegler, 1969 and 1972.
Folder 11 Nestell, Merlynd K., 1966-1967
Folder 12 New-Nut, general
Box 16
Folders 1-2 Newell, Norman D., 1956-1977, 1979, 1983, 1985-1987 and undated. Includes biographical essay on Newell, circa 1961.
Folder 3 Nichols, Terrell, 1956-1961, 1964-1965
Folder 4 O, general
Folder 5 Oleksyshyn, John, 1958-1959, 1963, 1977
Folder 6 Olsson, Axel A., 1958, 1962-1963
Folder 7 Orkin, Frances L., 1960, 1964-1965
Folder 8 Owen, Ellis, 1968-1969, 1972-1973, 1975-1980, 1983, 1985
Folder 9 Pa, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 10 Paine, Robert T., 1958-1959, 1961-1963, 1977
Folder 11 Paleontological Society, 1956-1960, 1963-1964, 1969 and undated
Folder 12 Paleontological Society Presidential Address, 1958-1960. Includes reprint of speech published in Journal of Paleontology, volume 32 (number 5), September 1958, and related correspondence.
Folder 13 Paleontological Society Medal Acceptance Speech, 1964. Includes speech given by Cooper to accept the Paleontological Society's Medal, November 1964, and text for presentation of Paleontological Society's Medal to Ralph W. Chaney, undated.
Folder 14 Palmer, Katherine Van Winkle, 1957, 1959-1964, 1969-1970, 1972-1973, 1977. Includes "Season's Greetings" cards from the Paleontological Research Institution for 1955 and 1968.
Folder 15 Pancake, Evan, 1960
Folder 16 Pande, I. C., 1966, 1968-1969
Folder 17 Pantoja-Alor, Ignecio Jerges, 1966
Folder 18 Parker, Frances L., 1958-1959, 1965
Folder 19 Pe-Pi, general
Folder 20 Peace Corps, 1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968
Folder 21 Percival, Ian G., 1978, 1981
Box 17
Folder 1 Perry, T. G., 1964, 1966-1968
Folder 2 Pitrat, Charles W., 1975-1977 and undated
Folder 3 Pm-Pz, general
Folder 4 Pope, John K., 1960, 1963-1965, 1971
Folder 5 Q, general
Folder 6 Ra, general
Folder 7 Ramsdell, Robert C., 1960-1961, 1966
Folder 8 Rasetti, Franco Dino, 1956, 1958-1964, 1966-1967. Includes biographical information about Rasetti, circa 1964.
Folder 9 Raup, David M., 1961, 1963-1964
Folder 10 Re-Ri, general
Folder 11 Reimann, Irving G., 1962-1963, 1965, 1967, 1971-1973, 1979
Folder 12 Reineck, Hans E., 1967-1968
Folder 13 Renfroe, Charles A., 1960-1961
Folder 14 Rice, William M., 1960-1963
Folder 15 Richardson, Eugene S., Jr., 1957, 1962-1964. Includes annotated transcript of letters by Thomas Davidson, 1865-1867, 1878, 1880-1881, and 1886, which Richardson was planning to reprint.
Folder 16 Richardson, Joyce, 1973-1976, 1978-1982, 1984-1987. Includes photographs of specimens and research proposal for the Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, with recommendation by Cooper.
Folder 17 Rickard, Lawrence V., 1958-1959, 1962, 1964
Folder 18 Rigby, J. Keith, 1958-1959, 1961-1963, 1974, 1983, 1985
Folder 19 Roberts, John, 1962-1964, 1966-1969, 1971, 1973-1977, 1984. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 20 Rm-Ror, general
Box 18
Folder 1 Ros-Rz, general
Folder 2 Ross, Charles A., 1958-1963, 1965, 1976-1977
Folder 3 Ross, June R. P., 1958-1963, 1965, 1968
Folders 4-5 Ross, Reuben J., Jr., 1957-1962, 1964-1968, 1971, 1973-1975, 1978, 1984-1985 and undated. Includes photographs of specimens and brochure, "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowships, United States and Canada, 1967."
Folders 6-7 Rowell, A. J., 1958-1976, 1979-1985 and undated
Folder 8 Rudwick, Martin J. S., 1958-1960, 1962-1965
Folder 9 Rushlau, William, 1958-1960, 1963, 1969
Box 19
Folder 1 Sa, general
Folder 2 Sadlick, Walter, 1957-1960, 1962-1966
Folder 3 Sahni, M. R., 1959, 1964-1966, 1968-1969, 1975
Folder 4 Sanders, John E., 1958-1959, 1961, 1964
Folder 5 Sando, William, 1964
Folder 6 Sartenaer, Paul, 1958-1966, 1968-1969, 1973-1975, 1980-1981, 1986
Folder 7 Sarytcheva, T. G., 1960-1961, 1965, 1969-1970, 1973
Folder 8 Sass, Daniel B., 1961, 1963-1964, 1973
Folder 9 Savage, Norman M., 1967-1968, 1970, 1975, 1979, 1981
Folder 10 Sc-Se, general
Folder 11 Schopf, Thomas J. M., 1958, 1960, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967-1968, 1972, 1976-1978
Folder 12 Scott, Richard A., 1960-1962
Folder 13 Segonzac, Michel, 1975-1980, 1982. Includes "Bulletin d'Information du Centre National de Tri d'Oceanographie Biologique," December 1979.
Folder 14 Sf-Sl, general
Folder 15 Shaw, Alan B., 1957, 1960-1968, 1986. Includes manuscript, "The Economic Value of Paleontology in the Petroleum Industry," by Shaw, circa 1965, and manuscript, "Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. XIV. Type Section of the (Upper Cambrian) Gorge Formation," by Mary Gilman Clark and Shaw, circa 1967.
Box 20
Folder 1 Shrock, Robert R., 1958-1961, 1966, 1968
Folder 2 Simonetta, Alberto M., 1958, 1961-1966, 1968, 1970
Folder 3 Sm-Sq, general. Includes photograph of specimen.
Folder 4 Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973-1974, 1977
Folder 5 Sorting Center, Mediterranean Marine, 1963, 1966-1967, 1969-1974
Folder 6 Southworth, Charles, 1957-1968 and undated. Includes print and negative of photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Southworth [Annie Southworth], circa 1940s.
Folder 7 Spencer, Edgar W., 1959, 1964
Folder 8 Spjeldnaes, Nils, 1958-1959, 1965, 1981
Folder 9 St, general
Folder 10 Stainforth, R. M., 1960, 1962-1963
Folder 11 Stehli, Francis G., 1959-1962, 1965-1967, 1970-1971, 1973, 1980. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 12 Strimple, Harrell L., 1957-1960, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972-1975, 1977, 1982
Folder 13 Struve, Wolfgang, 1957, 1959, 1964-1965, 1967, 1972
Folder 14 Stumm, Erwin C., 1958-1961, 1966
Folder 15 Su-Sz, general. Includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 16 Systematic Collections Report, 1962
Box 21
Folder 1 Ta-Tn, general
Folder 2 Teichert, Curt, 1957, 1960-1966, 1973, 1975, 1977
Folder 3 Termier, Genevieve and Henri, 1960-1961, 1966
Folder 4 Texas, University of, 1956-1957, 1961, 1968
Folder 5 Thorsteinsson, R., 1966
Folder 6 To-Tz, general
Folder 7 Toomey, Donald F., 1962-1963, 1966-1967, 1975-1976
Folder 8 Tropical Studies Committee. Includes committee reports for 1958 and 1962.
Folder 9 U-Uz, general
Folder 10 Ulrich, Edward Oscar, 1892, 1943, 1968. Includes letter to Ulrich from B. E. Wachmer, letter to Cooper from Ulrich, and biographical essay on Ulrich by Cooper.
Folder 11 V-Vz, general
Folder 12 Van Roy, Andre, 1975-1980, 1983
Folder 13 Wa, general
Folder 14 Waage, Karl M., 1960-1964
Folder 15 Waering (Kjellesvig-Waering), Eric, 1957, 1959-1961, 1963-1967, 1969, 1971 and undated. Includes drawing of specimen.
Folder 16 Wang, Yu, 1978-1983
Folder 17 Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc., 1962, 1965, 1968-1969
Folder 18 Washington Academy of Sciences, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965
Folder 19 Waterhouse, J. Bruce, 1958-1962, 1964-1971, 1982-1983. Includes photographs of specimens.
Box 22
Folder 1 Wea-Wer, general
Folder 2 Wes-Whi, general
Folder 3 Westermann, G. E. G., 1959-1962, 1964, 1968
Folders 4-5 Whittington, Harold B., 1950, 1957-1983, 1985-1986 and undated. Includes drawings of specimens.
Folder 6 Wi-Wy, general
Folder 7 Widener, Millard E., 1967-1968, 1971, 1973
Folder 8-9 Wilde, Garner L., 1957-1969, 1972-1974, 1980 and undated
Folder 10 Williams, Alwyn, 1958-1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1970, 1972-1976, 1982-1983, 1985 and undated. Includes photographs of specimens.
Box 23
Folder 1 Wright, Anthony D., 1958-1962, 1966, 1969, 1972-1974, 1976, 1978-1980, 1982
Folder 2 Wright, Jean and Edward P., 1957, 1959-1962, 1964, 1966-1974, 1976-1983, 1985 and undated
Folder 3 X-Zz, general
Folder 4 Yanagida, Juichi, 1961, 1963-1965, 1981
Folder 5 Yen, John T. C., 1952, 1954-1955, 1958, 1960-1966 and undated
Series 2
TRAVEL AND GRANT FILES, 1927-1968, 1985 AND UNDATED.This series consists of files documenting Cooper's travel and grants for scientific research. These records include correspondence between Cooper and department secretaries while Cooper was in the field, incoming and outgoing memoranda documenting travel and expenses, and records for several of Cooper's grants and other professional activities. The material provides excellent documentation of Cooper's expectations and the results of many of his field trips, as well as detailed accounts of his travels. The original order of the files has been maintained.
Box 23
Folders 6-9 Correspondence between Cooper and department secretaries while he was traveling, 1936-1965. Includes incoming and outgoing memoranda that detail field work progress and expenses.
Box 24
Folders 1-3 Travel, 1931-1934, 1939-1959 and undated. Includes expense records, itineraries, and detailed reports of trips.
Folder 4 Institute for Career Science Executives, 1961. Includes program, roster and Cooper's notes from conference.
Folder 5 Earth Sciences Proposal, circa 1968. Consists of proposal for undergraduate research participation program in the earth sciences
Folder 6 National Science Foundation grant NSF-G-18680 and continuation of NSF-3805, 1957-1968. Includes draft proposals, completed proposals, related correspondence and notes.
Folders 7-8 Miscellany, 1930-1985. Includes copy of "Smithsonian Local Notes," October 31, 1930; "Locality List for Silicified Trilobites in Strasburg Area-H. B. W.'s Numbers," circa 1932; biographical sketch and curriculum vitae of Cooper, undated; grant proposal and progress reports for Geological Society of America grant #491-46. Includes draft of proposal, "Description, Morphology and Paleoecology of the Permian brachiopods of the Glass Mountains, Texas," circa 1956; copy of "Armfoot" for those who did not attend the First International Congress on Brachiopods, Brest, France, 1985.
Series 3
ADMINISTRATIVE CORRESPONDENCE, 1933-1967 AND UNDATED, WITH RELATED MATERIAL FROM 1888-1925.This series consists predominantly of routine administrative correspondence of G. Arthur Cooper and his predecessor, William F. Foshag, during their tenures as head curator of the Department of Geology. Foshag served as head curator of the department from 1948 to 1956. Cooper succeeded him in that role until 1963, when he oversaw the splitting of that Department into the Departments of Mineral Sciences and Paleobiology. Cooper continued as chairman of the new Department of Paleobiology from 1963 to 1967. These files contain incoming and outgoing routine administrative correspondence of the department prior to and during Cooper's tenure as head curator. This series also contains some of Foshag's field notes and manuscripts. Bequest files contain nineteenth-century correspondence, copies of wills, and other original and copied bequest documents. Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by personal and institutional name. Although these files were maintained separately from those in series 1, there is overlap, thus both series should be checked to ensure a complete search.
Box 24
Folder 9 A, general
Folder 10 Aldrich, Henry Ray, 1957-1958
Folder 11 Allen Meteorite Collection, 1962-1963
Folder 12 Allen, William T., 1950, 1954, 1963 and undated
Folder 13 Amos, Arturo J., 1959-1962
Folder 14 Associated Technical Services, Inc., undated. Contains lists of publications translated and offered for sale by company. Contains lists of translations nos. 3-W, 50, 58, 63.
Folder 15 Ayres, John E., 1961
Folder 16 B, general
Folder 17 Bandy, Mark C., 1958-1961
Folder 18 Barthel, K. Werner, 1959-1962
Folder 19 Bassler, Ray S., 1957-1959, 1961, 1963 and undated. Includes three obituaries of Bassler, circa 1961.
Box 25
Folder 1 Bequests to Smithsonian Institution
Folder 2 Beattie, Robert, 1959-1960, 1962
Folder 3 Bergenhayn, J. R. M., 1958-1959
Folder 4 Biese Collection, 1960-1963
Folder 5 Blow, Walter H., 1957, 1959
Folder 6 Bock, Wilhelm, 1960-1962
Folder 7 Bones, Thomas J., Collection, 1960-1961. Includes newspaper articles on acquisition.
Folder 8 Borro, Primitivo, 1958-1960
Folder 9 Bostwick, David A., 1960-1962
Folder 10 Boucot, Arthur James, 1956-1962
Folder 11 Bronnimann, Paul, 1957-1960
Folder 12 Bowsher, Arthur Leroy, Sr., 1948-1951, 1953
Folder 13 Burke, John J., 1958-1959, 1962
Folder 14 C, general
Folder 15 Carmichael, Leonard, 1953, 1956-1958, 1961, 1963-1965. Includes 1963 newspaper clipping documenting the transition between S. Dillon Ripley and Leonard Carmichael as secretary of Smithsonian Institution.
Folder 16 Chace, Fenner A., Jr., 1958, 1964-1965
Folder 17 Clark, Thomas H., 1959, 1961
Folder 18 Cloud, Preston E., Jr., 1949-1953, 1958
Folder 19 Coral Collections (relocation), 1961
Folder 20 Cuba California Oil Company, 1957
Folder 21 D, general
Folder 22 deTerra, Helmut, 1957-1958. Concerns Alexander von Humbolt exhibit.
Folder 23 Dornbusch, Louise M., 1960-1961. Concerns acquisition of books and papers left by her uncle, Dr. August Foerste.
Folder 24 E, general
Folder 25 Easton, William H., 1957-1958, 1961
Folder 26 Ehrmann, Martin L., 1958, 1960-1963
Folder 27 Ellesmere Ice Shelf Expedition, 1961
Folder 28 F, general
Folder 29 Fagerstrom, J. A., 1958-1961 and undated. Includes photograph of specimen.
Folders 30-31 Flower, Rousseau H., 1957-1963. Includes photographs of specimens and chart.
Box 26
Folders 1-2 Foshag, William F., 1933, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1946-1956 and undated. Includes notebook, circa 1945, bibliography, biographical material, and correspondence. These two folders are primarily Foshag's material, with Cooper mentioned only incidentally. It is probable that Cooper inherited this material when he became head curator of Geology in 1957 since Foshag was his predecessor.
Folder 3 Foshag, William F., manuscripts, including:
Folder 4 G, general
Folder 5 Geological Society of America, 1957-1963. Includes undated Society circular on fellowship applications and abstract by G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant, U.S. Geological Survey, "Permian Brachiopods of the Glass Mountains," circa 1963.
Folder 6 Graf, John E., 1945, 1955-1957 and undated
Folder 7 Guggenheim Foundation, John Simon, 1957, 1961-1963. Consists of correspondence and Cooper's comments as referee for grant proposals.
Folder 8 H, general. Includes biographical material on Frank E. Holden, USNM Geology Department gem cutter.
Folder 9 I-J, general
Folder 10 International Zoological Congress, 1962-1963
Folder 11 K, general
Folder 12 Knight, Mr. and Mrs. J. Brookes [Madge Knight], 1944, 1950-1951, 1954-1956, 1958-1961. Includes biographical material.
Folder 13 L, general
Folder 14-15 Library, Smithsonian Institution, 1957-1958, 1960-1967 and undated. Includes binding requests, cataloguing requests, and incoming and outgoing memoranda concerning establishment of library in the Department of Geology and the interaction between main library and branch libraries.
Box 27
Folders 1-2 Loeblich, Alfred R., Jr., 1946-1960. Includes Loeblich's correspondence with the Institution, several grant proposals by Loeblich, material relating to departmental conflict concerning Loeblich, circa 1956, and Annual Report for Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany, July 1952 to June 1953.
Folder 3 Ma-Mc, general
Folder 4 Me-Mz, general
Folder 5 Miller, Arthur K., 1957-1958, 1961, 1963
Folder 6 Modernization of Exhibits, 1948, 1950, 1953-1955, 1960 and undated. Includes "Preliminary Report on Exhibition," by the Subcommittee for Exhibits circa 1948 and "Exhibits Subcommittee: Answers to Questions Submitted to the Department of Geology." Attached are eleven appendices:
Folder 7 Muir-Wood Project Grants, 1953, 1958. Refers to grants nos. 604-53 and 737-56.
Folder 8 N, general
Folder 9 National Portrait Gallery, 1964-1965
Folder 10 National Science Foundation, 1957-1962. Includes Cooper's comments on various grant proposals submitted to NSF, and NSF Program on Systematic Biology Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1959.
Folders 11-12 National Science Foundation Grants. Includes the following grant proposals and Cooper's comments:
Folder 13 O, general
Box 28
Folder 1 Oehser, Paul H., Chief, Smithsonian Institution Editorial and Publications Division, 1933, 1937-1939, 1944, 1948, 1950-1965
Folder 2 P, general. Includes material on the Department of Paleontology.
Folder 3 Palmer, Allison R., 1959-1962, 1965. Includes NSF Grant Proposal entitled, "Study of Foreign Cambrian Trilobites with American Affinities," by Palmer, circa 1959.
Folder 4 R, general
Folder 5 Reimann, Irving G., 1957-1961
Folder 6 Renfro, Mrs. J. H. [Ruby Florence Bennett Renfro], 1952-1957
Folder 7 Renfro, Ruby F., Estate, 1960
Folder 8 Sa-Sl, general
Folder 9 Schmitt, Waldo LaSalle, 1949, 1954-1957, 1962 and undated. Includes newspaper clipping about Schmitt.
Folder 10 Sm-Sz, general
Folder 11 Smith, Albert C., 1958-1963
Folder 12 Smith, Godfrey L., 1957, 1959
Folder 13 T, general
Folder 14 True, Webster P., 1934-1947, 1959
Box 29
Folder 1 U, general
Folder 2 United States Geological Survey, accessions from 1899 to 1944. Includes two undated lists of accessions with accession numbers, mostly in chronological order.
Folder 3 United States Geological Survey, 1930, 1956-1962. See also: Geological Survey, United States, Box 9, Folder 11.
Folder 4 V, general
Folder 5 Wa-We, general. Includes photograph of specimens.
Folder 6 Wetmore, Alexander, 1947-1952, 1961. Includes two newspaper clippings about Wetmore
Folder 7 Wh-Wz, general
Folder 8 Wilding, A. W., 1957-1959, 1962-1965
Folder 9 X-Zz, general
Series 4
MANUSCRIPTS, 1925-1974 AND UNDATED.This series consists of manuscripts, papers, and text of speeches written by Cooper. The material spans Cooper's career at the Institution, and several manuscripts predate his arrival at the USNM. Also included are Cooper's M.S. thesis, "Hamilton Group in Hamilton Township" and an incomplete copy of his Ph.D. dissertation, "Hamilton Group of New York." Most of the manuscripts are typewritten and appear to be near final or final editions. Researchers should also note that manuscripts, either written or co-authored by Cooper, are scattered throughout the previous series. Refer to the following folders: Box 7, Folder 11; Box 9, Folder 7; Box 13, Folder 4; Box 15, Folders 1 and 2; Box 16, Folders 13 and 14.
Box 29
Folder 10 Cooper, G. Arthur, and Whittington, Harold B., "Use of Acids in Preparation of Fossils," undated
Folder 11 Cooper, G. Arthur, "The Science of Paleontology," circa 1958
Folder 12 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled draft paper related to Glass Mountains stratigraphy, February 17, 1959
Folder 13 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Study of the Wolfcamp and Related Faunas of the Glass Mountains, Texas," undated
Folder 14 Cooper, G. Arthur, and Arellano, Alberto R. V., "Preliminary Report on the Stratigraphy of an Area about Caborca, Northwest Sonora, Mexico," circa 1945
Folder 15 Cooper, G. Arthur, index of brachiopod specimens with their corresponding accession numbers. Includes two indexes dated June 6, 1960 and May 2, 1962.
Folder 16 Cooper, G. Arthur, locality tables and charts, 1958-1959. Includes memoranda requesting permission for publication between Cooper and Secretary's Office, 1952-1956, 1962, 1965.
Folder 17 National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Committee on Paleontology, minutes of meetings between December 1963 and December 1964
Folder 18 National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Committee on Paleontology, manuscript drafts of "NRC Subcommittee Report on Invertebrate Paleontology," from late 1963 to 1965
Folder 19 National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Committee on Paleontology, correspondence of committee members relating to "NRC Subcommittee Report on Invertebrate Paleontology," from mid 1964 to late 1965. Also includes copy of NAS, National Research Council Guidelines, 1964.
Box 30
Folder 1 Cooper, G. Arthur, Devonian manuscript -- 1, "Detailed Sections of Southwestern Illinois and Adjacent Southwestern Missouri," draft, undated
Folder 2 Cooper, G. Arthur, Devonian manuscript -- 2, figures depicting "Present Distribution of Devonian Limestones in Illinois," and figures for the manuscript, undated. Includes negatives.
Folder 3 Cooper, G. Arthur, Devonian manuscript -- 3, undated
Note: The following oversize figures for the Devonian manuscript, Box 30, Folders 1-3 have been removed to oversize storage:
Folder 4 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Adaptive Radiation of Tertiary Brachiopods," undated
Folder 5 Cooper, G. Arthur, "A New Accent in Paleontology," circa 1932-1933
Folder 6 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled talk on Hamilton formation, February 8, 1933
Folder 7 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Evaluation of Internal Characters in the Classification of Brachiopods," 1932
Folder 8 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Hamilton Group along the Catskill Front," circa 1938-1939
Folder 9 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Facies relations of the Middle Devonian (Hamilton Group) along the Catskill Front," portions of two versions, circa 1939-1940
Folder 10 Cooper, G. Arthur, "The Role of Fossils in Stratigraphy," April 10, 1946
Folder 11 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Decline of Paleontology," March 12, 1947
Folder 12 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Role of the National Museum in Paleobotany," 1948
Folder 13 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled address to the New York Academy of Sciences, December 5, 1949
Folder 14 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled address concerning the history of paleontology at the National Museum, May 26, 1952
Folder 15 Cooper, G. Arthur, and Ulrich, Edward Oscar, "Chazyan and Related Brachiopods," circa 1955-1956
Folder 16 Cooper, G. Arthur, address to the New York State Geological Survey meeting, "Some Devonian Correlations in North America," May 13, 1955
Folder 17 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Specific, Generic, and Family Characters in Brachiopods," May 26, 1960
Folder 18 Cooper, G. Arthur, address to Geological Society of America, "The Pseudopunctate Brachiopods," November 3, 1960
Folder 19 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Remarks at the Opening of the Paleontology Halls," circa 1960
Folder 20 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Stringocephalus in Indiana," circa 1965-1966
Folder 21 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Correlation of Tully and Cedar Valley Formations," September 6, 1967
Folder 22 Cooper, G. Arthur, address given at dedication of Lothrop Hall, Colgate University, undated
Folder 23 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Early Middle Ordovician of the United States," September 1974
Folder 24 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Changes at the U. S. National Museum," circa 1963
Folder 25 Cooper, G. Arthur, and Williams, Alwyn, "Geological Significance of Explosive Evolution -- Brachiopoda," undated
Folder 26 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled address relating to silicification, undated
Folder 27 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Silicified Fossils," undated
Folder 28 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Facies of the Lower Permian of the Glass Mountains, West Texas," undated
Folder 29 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Permian Faunal Studies in the Glass Mountains, West Texas," undated
Folder 30 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Permian Faunas of the Glass Mountains, Texas, and their Environment-Abstract," undated
Folder 31 Cooper, G. Arthur, untitled talk relating to Glass Mountains, undated
Folder 31a Notes taken by Richard E. Grant on Cooper's course on brachiopods, undated
Folder 32 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Facies in the Ordovician of the Appalachians," undated
Folder 33 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Evolution of Articulate Brachiopods," undated
Folder 34 Cloud, Preston E., Jr., "Delthydral Structures," 1941
Folder 35 Cooper, G. Arthur, unpublished M.S. thesis, "Hamilton Group in Hamilton Township (type section of Hamilton)," 1925-1927. Introduction and Part I: General Description and Geology of Colgate Campus and Vicinity, circa 210 pages.
Box 31
Folder 1 Cooper, G. Arthur, unpublished M.S. thesis, "Hamilton Group in Hamilton Township (type section of Hamilton)," 1925-1927. Part II: List of Species and Classification of the Fauna of Colgate University Campus and Vicinity, circa 180 pages.
Folders 2-22 Cooper, G. Arthur, "Hamilton Group of New York," Ph.D. dissertation - Yale University. Note: This dissertation does not appear to be the final edition. Markings and notes for revisions are abundant; in some cases multiple versions of particular chapters exist. Because only a partial Table of Contents is present, the ordering of the manuscript is unclear. A universal pagination is not present nor are individual sections internally numbered. To avoid losing the order of the material, the pages of each section were numbered during archival processing. These numbers appear in pencil on the LOWER LEFT corner of the pages. Both the section identification and the page number are marked (e.g., for chapter III, page 6, the notation appears as III-6) and the order is precisely as it was originally found for that section.
Folder 2 Abstract and partial Table of Contents
Folder 3 Bibliography (arranged chronologically)
Folder 4 Chapter I - Foreword
Folder 5 Chapter II
Folder 6 Chapter III
Folder 7 Chapter IV (only two pages)
Folder 8 Chapter V
Folder 9 Section for Darien and Vicinity
Folder 10 Lake Erie Section (edition A)
Folder 11 Lake Erie Section (edition B)
Folder 12 Ravine One Mile South of Fabius
Folder 13 Section on Oneida Creek near Stockbridge Falls
Folder 14 Unadilla Valley Section
Folder 15 Genesee Valley Section
Folder 16 Cayuga Lake Section
Folder 17 Canandaigua Lake Section
Folder 18 Livonia Salt Shaft Section (edition A)
Folder 19 Livonia Salt Shaft Section (edition B)
Folder 20 Cazenovia Section
Folder 21 Other Sections in Erie County
Folder 22 Assorted diagrams and figures
Series 5
FIELD NOTES, 1926-1970.This series consists of field notes taken by Cooper during trips to collect fossils. The notes span Cooper's career; included are extensive notes from his early work on the Hamilton formation and his later work in the Glass Mountains of West Texas. All the field notes were arranged in groups with numbered pages; subsequent references to the field work refer to these page numbers. The numerical sequence often continues across multiple seasons, but each separate group of localities has its own numerical sequence. For instance, the Glass Mountains field notes consist of a virtually complete numerical series from 0070 to 1043 even though more than twenty trips are represented. Each folder consists of one of these groups, and the folder list below identifies the endpoint for that sequence; however, missing numbers are frequent. Also, for many of the notes, the date is not readily apparent, and many groups clearly represent several collecting trips. Thus, the page notation sequence may not provide a chronologically accurate series. The photographs and slides in series 6 complement the field notes for some of these localities.
Box 32
Folder 1 "Charts" - list of localities for circa 1926-1936.
Folder 2 Locality index for Devonian, undated. Numbers correspond to pages in field notes.
Folder 3 "Allegheny State Park, S. W. New York, notes and maps." Includes field notes and topographical maps for area. Maps have locality markings. A note on the envelope states, "These notes and maps were made in the summer of 1930 just before coming to the Museum. I passed the Civil Service test before working in the Park and went from the Park to Washington." [Page notation in LOWER LEFT corner was placed during archival processing to maintain order in the notes.]
Folder 4 Field notes and maps, circa 1927. Includes Town of Hamilton and vicinity, Georgetown County and elsewhere, pages 0802c-0999.
Folder 5 Field notes and maps, circa 1928. Includes Hamilton Group, Unadilla Valley and vicinity, elsewhere, pages 0680-0802b.
Folder 6 Field notes and maps, circa 1927-1928. Includes Hamilton Group, various localities, pages 0473a-0679.
Folder 7 Field notes and maps, circa 1928-1929. Includes various localities, in Gaspe, Quebec, no page notation.
Folder 8 Field notes and maps, circa 1928. Includes various localities, Hamilton Group, central New York, pages 0311-0473.
Folder 9 Field notes and maps, circa 1928. Includes Hamilton Group, Morrisville Quadrangle, pages 0001-0310.
Box 33
Folder 1 Field notes and maps, circa 1934-1940 and undated. Includes Devonian in Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario, pages 1699-2041, with several unnumbered.
Folder 2 Field notes and maps, circa 1932 and undated. Includes Hamilton Group, eastern New York, pages 1205-1515.
Folder 3 Field notes and maps, 1933. Includes Tully and Upper Hamilton, pages 1516-1566.
Folder 4 Field notes and maps, 1938. Includes Eastern Belt, Port Jarvis to Albany, New York, pages 1567-1695. Also includes photographs of specimens.
Folder 5 Field notes and maps, 1939. Area is unidentified, possibly New York, pages 0014-0019.
Folder 6 Field notes and maps, circa 1931-1938 and undated. Includes Oneida section and vicinity, Hamilton Group, pages 1000-1204.
Folder 7 Field notes and maps, 1943-1944. Includes Region around Caborca, Sonora, Mexico. Pages are hand numbered, two sets: 1-81 (for 1943) and 1-70 (for 1944).
Box 34
Folder 1 Field notes and maps, various years between circa 1931 and 1955. Includes localities in South, Midwest, and Southwest United States. Index of localities accompanies field notes. Also includes notes from Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, pages 0001-0858, and unnumbered.
Folder 2 Field notes, circa 1955. Includes Midwest U.S., pages 0842-0857. Contents separated from material in Box 30, Folder 1, by Cooper.
Folder 3 Field notes, circa 1956. Includes Devonian of New Mexico, hand numbered pages 09-33. Also includes index of localities.
Folder 4 Field notes, circa 1959. Includes Central New York, handwritten page numbers 1939-1945.
Folder 5 Field notes, 1964. Includes New Mexico and Texas, handwritten pages 01-53, with index.
Folder 6 Field notes, 1964. Includes Logansport, Indiana, no pages assigned.
Folder 7 Field notes, 1964. Includes Nevada and Utah, no pages assigned.
Folder 8 Field notes, 1965. Includes Pennsylvania, handwritten pages 01-04.
Folder 9 Field notes, 1966. Includes Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, handwritten pages 01-64.
Folder 10 Field notes, 1966. Includes Oklahoma and Tennessee, no pages assigned.
Folder 11 Field notes, 1968. Includes Missouri and Oklahoma, no pages assigned.
Box 35
Folder 1 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1945, pages 0070-0113
Folder 2 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1948, pages 0114-0144
Folder 3 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1950, pages 0145-0200 and 0746
Folder 4 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1951, pages 0331-0402
Folder 5 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1953, pages 0415-0432
Folder 6 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1956, pages 0433-0440
Folder 7 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1957, pages 0442-0484
Folder 8 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1958, pages 0485-0538
Folder 9 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1959, pages 0539-0564
Folder 10 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1961, pages 0859-0894
Folder 11 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1963a, pages 0895-0984
Folder 12 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1963b, 14 pages
Folder 13 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1964, pages 0985-0990
Folder 14 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1965, pages 0985-1043
Folder 15 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1966, 20 pages
Folder 16 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1967, 32 pages
Folder 17 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, 1968, 6 pages
Folder 18 Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, also Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas, 1970, 18 pages of loose notes and locality indexes for 1951-1952, 1957-1959
Folder 19 Loose notes and locality indexes
Series 6
PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES, CIRCA 1924-1945, 1958-1976, 1993.This series contains photographs and slides mostly taken during Cooper's field work. Few photographs can be precisely dated by the content of the pictures, but the collection probably spans the mid 1920s to mid 1940s. The slides are dated 1958-1959, 1962, 1964-1968, and 1976. Only a small portion of the many photographs Cooper took during his career is represented here. The thousands of photographs he took of fossil specimens remain with those collections in the National Museum of Natural History. These photographs and slides are primarily records of geological formations and field work localities and those taken during vacations. The majority of the collection falls into the first category, although some of Cooper's photographs do appear to have been taken for aesthetic rather than scientific reasons. The slides are supplemented by detailed notes and a letter written by Cooper describing the subjects and the circumstances behind the slides. The notes have been numbered during processing to correspond with the box numbers of the slides, and the letter is located in Box 36, Folder 8. Also included in this series is a copy of an oversize original photograph of Charles Schuchert. Photographic negatives and prints are present. All nitrate negatives have been removed and copied onto safety film. The original arrangement has been preserved.
Box 36
Folder 1 Photographs from travel and field work in Sonora, Mexico, undated, but probably circa middle 1940s, approximately 110 envelopes
Folder 2 Photographs from field work in United States and Canada, undated, but probably during 1930s. Includes Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, New Brunswick, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Tennessee, Texas, and unidentified, approximately 60 envelopes.
Folder 3 Photographs from field work in New York State, undated but probably circa 1925-1932. Includes localities referenced in both M.S. and Ph.D. work, approximately 80 envelopes.
Folder 4 Photographs from field work in New York State, undated but probably circa 1925-1932. Includes localities referenced in both M.S. and Ph.D. work, approximately 80 envelopes.
Folder 5 Photographs from field work and travel in New Brunswick and Gaspe, Quebec, undated, but probably circa 1929-1933, approximately 90 envelopes
Folder 6 Photographs from field work in New York state, undated but probably circa 1925-1932. Includes localities referenced in both M.S. and Ph.D. work, approximately 40 envelopes.
Folder 7 Reproduction of original photographic portrait of Charles Schuchert, May 10, 1939. (Original placed in oversize storage).
Folder 8 Letter to Lynn Wojcik, 1993. Includes description of slides.
Box 37
Folder 1 Slides of Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina, 1976
Folders 2-3 Slides of Iowa, 1966, Devonian, with Thomas Phelan
Folders 4-5 Slides of Missouri, 1966, Devonian, with Thomas Phelan
Folder 6 Slides of Pennsylvania, 1965
Folders 7-8 Slides of Utah and Nevada, 1965, Ordovician, with Dr. Reuben Ross of U.S. Geological Survey
Folder 9 Slides of New Mexico, 1964, Upper Devonian in San Andres Mountains; documented in Cooper and J. Thomas Dutro, Devonian Brachiopods of New Mexico, 1982
Folders 10-11 Slides of New Mexico, 1964, Devonian in Silver City vicinity; documented in Cooper and J. Thomas Dutro, Devonian Brachiopods of New Mexico, 1982
Folders 12-14 Slides of New Mexico, 1964, Devonian east of Silver City area; documented in Cooper and J. Thomas Dutro, Devonian Brachiopods of New Mexico, 1982
Folder 15 Slides of Ohio, 1962, Devonian (Middle) Silica shale
Folders 16-17 Slides of Michigan, 1958-1959, 1962, 1964, 1967, taken while on vacation in Alpena and on private trips with G. M. Ehlers of University of Michigan
Box 38
Copy Negatives 1-375
Box 39
Copy Negatives 376-458
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