Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7461
United States National Museum
Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Drawings, and Manuscripts on Mollusks, circa 1869-1920 and undated
Descriptive Entry
This collection consists of notes, lists, catalogs, drawings, and manuscripts on mollusks. Much of the material relates to specimens in the Division of Mollusks, National Museum of Natural History.
The collection includes a manuscript on the mollusks of the Republic of Panama by James Zetek, 1917; a list of Florida shells collected for the Smithsonian Institution by Henry Hemphill, circa 1884; notes on squid collected around Bermuda by Joseph William Collins, circa 1880; a report on a voyage from Washington, D. C., to South Carolina by Robert Platt, United States Navy, undated; and a catalog of shells collected in Florida by Robert Edwards Carter Stearns, 1869.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Collins, J. W. (Joseph William), 1839-1904
- Hemphill, Henry, 1830-1914
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Division of Mollusks
- Platt, Robert, d. 1910
- Stearns, Robert E. C. (Robert Edwards Carter), 1827-1909
- United States National Museum. Division of Mollusks
- United States. Navy
- Zetek, James, 1886-1959
Subject
- Bermuda Islands
- Florida
- Invertebrates
- Marine invertebrates
- Mollusks
- Panama
- Shells
- South Carolina
- Squids
- Zoologists
- Zoology
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7461, United States National Museum, Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Drawings, and Manuscripts on Mollusks