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Record Unit 7461

United States National Museum

Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Drawings, and Manuscripts on Mollusks, circa 1869-1920 and undated

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:United States National Museum
Title:Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Drawings, and Manuscripts on Mollusks
Dates:circa 1869-1920 and undated
Quantity:0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection:Record Unit 7461
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

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 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.

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.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7461, United States National Museum, Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Drawings, and Manuscripts on Mollusks

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Container List

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List of Shells for Smithsonian Institution from Henry Hemphill, Cedar Key, circa 1884

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Notes on Miss Bush's Shells

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List of Shells Collected by G. W. and O. B. Webster

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List of Shells from J. J. White to W. H. Dall, April 18, 1889

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Shering's Shells

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List of Dredging and Shore Stations S. U. I. Bahama Expedition, 1893

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Names in the Pupillidae by W. H. Dall

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Notes on the Nomenclature of the Pupacea and Associated Forms by W. H. Dall

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Notes on the Squid in the Vicinity of Bermuda, and other West India Islands

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Lists of Figures of Mollusks for Dr. Bartsch from M. J. Rathbun (A. E. Verrill Report)

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List of Mollusca Dredged off Chesapeake Bay in 1880

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Memoranda and Sketches of Soft Parts of Blake and other Mollusks

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Los Moluscos de le Republica de Panama - James Zetek, 1917

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Robert Platt Report on Voyage from Washington to South Carolina

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Notes on East Coast U.S. Mollusks, Chiefly Verrill and Hemphill

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Mollusks species list, circa 1890-1920

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