Record Unit 192

#1 - #300

#301 - #600

#601 - #1000

#1001 - #1375

#1376 - #1725

#1726 - #2025

#2026 - #2325

#2326 - #2600

#2601 - #2900

#2901 - #3175. Includes a report on the exhibit of the National Museum at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, by Frederick William True, 1902 (#3077).

#3176 - #3475

#3476 - #3775. Includes a report by the Botanical Society of America on the National Herbarium, 1902-1903 (#3699); correspondence with Guglielmo Marconi regarding the donation of wireless telegraphy apparatus to the USNM, 1902-1903 (#3755).

#3776 - #4100

#4101 - #4375

#4376 - #4700

#4701 - #5025

#5026 - #5350

#5351 - #5650. Includes correspondence with Albert Mann concerning his work "Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888-1904" (Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium, Vol. X, part 5, 1907), 1903-1904 (#5606, see also #2467, box 8); correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia over the distribution of specimens collected on the Albatross voyages, 1904 (#5644).

#5651 - #5950. Includes correspondence with Edgar Alexander Mearns regarding his collecting work in the Philippines, 1903 (#5655); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to purchase the Georg Semper Collection of Philippine lepidoptera, 1903-1904 (#5684); correspondence with Addison Emery Verrill regarding his work on Bering Sea and Arctic starfish, 1904 (#5738, 5814).

#5951 - #6200

#6201 - #6550

#6551 - #6825

#6826 - #7125

#7126 - #7400. Includes correspondence from Edgar Alexander Mearns concerning American military operations against insurgents in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#7140).

#7401 - #7650. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of the Bermuda Biological Station, 1900-1904 (#7552).

#7651 - #7925

#7926 - #8200

#8201 - #8500. Includes correspondence from Jesse R. Harris, who collected for the USNM while serving as Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army, stationed in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#8348).

#8501 - #8775. Includes correspondence from Jesse R. Harris regarding his collecting work in the Philippine Islands, 1904 (#8679).

#8776 - #8975. Includes extensive correspondence regarding a controversy between Ernest C. Rost and the USNM over an alleged agreement for Rost to collect for the museum in Costa Rica and Panama, 1904-1908 (#8875).

#8976 - #9275

#9276 - #9550. Includes correspondence regarding the designation of William Louis Abbott as an Honorary Associate in Zoology, 1905 (#9510).

#9551 - #9850

#9851 - #10150. Includes correspondence from Theodor Holm containing complaints lodged against the National Herbarium, 1904-1905 (#10093).

#10151 - #10450

#10451 - #10725

#10726 - #10900. Includes correspondence regarding Roderick Ross MacFarlane's "Notes on mammals collected and observed in the northern Mackenzie River District, Northwest Territories of Canada, with remarks on explorers and explorations of the Far North" (Proceedings of USNM, Vol. 28, 1905), 1903-1908 (#10800 1/2).

#10901 - #11175. Includes material regarding Ales Hrdlicka's work in the Division of Physical Anthropology, USNM, 1905-1906 (#11054); correspondence from Jesse R. Harris concerning his work in the Philippines, 1905 (#11128).

#11175 - #11450. Includes material concerning an effort by the USNM and the Department of Anthropology of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis) to develop an anthropometric laboratory at the exposition, 1904. Correspondents include Ales Hrdlicka and William John McGee (#11349).

#11451 - #11725. Includes material regarding the Herber Reginald Bishop collection of jade, 1895-1899, 1905 (#11681).

#11726 - #12025. Includes material concerning the William Joseph Hammer collection of incandescent lamps, 1905 (#11809).

#12026 - #12325

#12326 - #12600

#12601 - #12875. Includes correspondence regarding arrangements between the USNM and the Treasury Department to allow medical officers stationed aboard Revenue Cutters to make ethnological collections for the museum, 1906 (#12663).

#12876 - #13200. Includes correspondence regarding Joseph A. Cushman's work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1906-1908 (#12984).

#13201 - #13425. Includes correspondence regarding the Robert Ward collection of ferns, 1905-1906 (#13330); USNM file on the history and development of the National Herbarium, 1886-1908, 1948 (#13407).

#13426 - #13700. Includes correspondence regarding Henry A. Pilsbry's work on the USNM collection of cirripedia, 1906 (#13634).

#13701 - #13900. Includes extensive correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and the University of Wyoming, 1898-1906 (#13851).

#13901 - #14175

#14176 - #14500

#14501 - #14750

#14751 - #15025. Includes material regarding the discovery of the remains of primitive man by Robert Fletcher Gilder at Omaha, Nebraska, 1906. Correspondents include Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ales Hrdlicka (#15019).

#15026 - #15275. Includes correspondence with Carl H. Eigenmann concerning his work on the USNM collection of characins, 1906 (#15119).

#15276 - #15550

#15551 - #15800

#15801 - #15975. Includes correspondence with Janet Russell Perkins regarding her work on the leguminosae of Puerto Rico, 1906-1907 (#15832); correspondence with Janet Russell Perkins regarding her work on the USNM collection of Philippine plants, 1904-1907 (#15833); USNM file on the transfer of the Patent Office Collections to the USNM, 1906-1909 (#15834, 2 folders); correspondence with Addison Emery Verrill concerning the possibility of securing a position in the USNM, 1907 (#15872).

#15976 - #16225. Includes correspondence with the Aero Club regarding the borrowing of the Langley Aerodrome for exhibition at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907 (#16194).

#16226 - #16450

#16451 - #16650

#16651 - #16875

#16876 - #17125

#17126 - #17300. Includes correspondence regarding Joseph A. Cushman's work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1907 (#17146).

#17301 - #17500. Includes correspondence regarding Jesse Francis McClendon's work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1906-1908 (#17368).

#17501 - #17800

#17800 1/2 - #18099. Includes correspondence regarding the loan of the Herbert Goldsmith Squires collection of Chinese porcelains, jades, and lacquers to the USNM, 1907-1908 (#18080).

#18101 - #18325

#18326 - #18550. Includes correspondence concerning the choice of a director for the newly established Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1907-1908. Correspondents include Persifor M. Cooke, Richard Rathbun, and Frederick William True (#18330).

#18551 - #18750

#18751 - #19688. Includes correspondence regarding Charles Henry Gilbert's work on the USNM collection of fishes, 1905 and 1908 (#19350); correspondence with Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., regarding his investigations of Spanish museums and his work on the catalogue of European mammals, 1907-1908 (#19462); material regarding relations between the USNM and the U.S. Forest Service, especially correspondence concerning a large meteorite that fell on a Government Forest Reserve in Washington, 1907-1917. Correspondents include Gifford Pinchot and Overton Westfeldt Price (#19600).

#19701 - #20266. Includes correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and Edmond Redmond who accused the museum of stealing his invention for making casts with paraffin, 1898-1908 (#19757); correspondence with the U.S. Department of Interior regarding the Arizona Fossil Forest, 1908-1909 (#19973); correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and Jerome McNeill over his retention of museum type specimens, 1894-1908 (#19974); correspondence with Charles Lincoln Edwards regarding his work on the USNM collection of Holothurians, 1899-1908 (#19976); material concerning an archaeological expedition to Babylonia under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1888 and a proposed expedition to Mesopotamia under the auspices of the S.I., 1887-1888. Correspondents include Paul Haupt, Daniel Coit Gilman, John Punnett Peters, and William Pepper (#20266).

#20271 - #20503. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to recover museum specimens of Arctic bryozoa in the possession of Hermann A. Kluge, 1905-1937 (#20429); correspondence regarding the return of the USNM collection of Pacific sponges from Robert von Lendenfeld of the German University at Prague, 1905-1921 (#20430); correspondence of the USNM Committee on Material Held for Postage, 1908-1926 (#20503).

#20505 - #20985. Includes correspondence regarding the return of the USNM collection of fossil diptera from Axel Leonard Melander, 1903-1948 (#20529); material regarding USNM administrative regulations concerning distribution of publications, and correspondence, 1892-1907 (#20726).

#21231 - #22079. Includes correspondence regarding the exchange of ferns between the USNM and Eduard Rosenstock of Gotha, Germany, 1908 (#21691); correspondence with Raymond Carroll Osburn of Columbia University regarding his work on North American bryozoans, 1908 (#21704); correspondence with Charles Cleveland Nutting concerning his work on the USNM collection of Hawaiian Alcyonaria, 1908 (#21706).

#22085 - #23240. Includes material regarding SI involvement in the International Photographic Exposition, Dresden, 1909 (#22340); correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and Hubert Lyman Clark of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1907-1909. Correspondents include Samuel Henshaw (#22477). Also included is correspondence with Roy L. Moodie of the University of Kansas regarding his work on the USNM collection of carboniferous amphibia, 1908-1909 (#22532); correspondence with Charles Lincoln Edwards regarding his work on the USNM collection of holothurians, 1908-1909 (#22655); correspondence with Ales Hrdlicka concerning his collecting work while serving on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Egypt, 1909 (#23058).

#23263 - #24164. Includes a file on the Alfred Vail telegraph relics in the USNM, 1885-1909. Much of the correspondence regards a controversy between the USNM and Stephen Vail concerning the exhibiting of the relics (#23530). Also includes material regarding the proposed transfer, to the USNM, of the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1896, 1906-1909, 1916 (#24085).

#24165 - #25487. Includes material documenting an exchange between the USNM and the American Museum of Natural History, in which the National Museum's Cope Collection was exchanged for various geologic and paleontological specimens from the AMNH collections, 1900-1909. Correspondents include James W. Gidley, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles D. Walcott, and George P. Merrill (#24165). Also includes material concerning museum policy toward the loan of type specimens, 1893-1914 (#24416); material documenting USNM relations with the Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Leipzig, Germany, 1909-1913 (#24537); correspondence with Theodor Mortensen of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen regarding his work, "On Some West Indian Echinoids," USNM Bulletin #74, 1910 (#24611).

#25488 - #26895. Includes material regarding the withdrawal of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese porcelain from the USNM, 1909-1912 (#26889).

#26933 - #28174. Includes correspondence regarding Arthur deC. Sowerby's work collecting natural history specimens (for the USNM) in China, 1909-1922 (#26936); correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's studies on Eskimo crania, 1909-1910 (#26993); correspondence with Wilbur Wright regarding USNM attempts to obtain a model of the Wright Brothers' airplane, 1908-1910, 1928 (#28174).

#28200 1/2 - #29981. Includes USNM file on specimens distributed for study and exchange from 1881-1922, 1922 (#28200 1/2); USNM file on gifts to the United States from the Imaum of Muscat, 1887-1910 (#28518); correspondence regarding the collecting of specimens from the Arizona Fossil Forest, 1907-1910 (#29078); correspondence concerning an expedition to Java by Owen Bryant and William Palmer, 1910 (#29314); USNM file on museum participation at scientific congresses (1883-1910), 1910 (#29917); correspondence with Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., regarding his work on the mammals collected on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1910 (#29981).

#30316 - #32497. Includes correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's field work in Argentina, 1910 (#30379); correspondence regarding the E. A. Wakefield collection of Basuto pottery, 1911-1917 (#31909).

#32501 - #33488. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and the Museum of Comparative Zoology over the USNM collection of Philippine Medusae, 1909-1917 (#32656); correspondence with Harry R. Caldwell regarding an offer to collect natural history specimens in China, 1911-1913 (#32933).

#33501 - #34597. Includes correspondence with Rene Koehler of the University of Lyon, France, regarding his work on the USNM collection of ophiurans, 1910-1915 (#33568); correspondence with James W. Gidley regarding a fossil collecting excursion to Montana, 1911 (#33796); correspondence regarding a planned big game hunting trip to New Brunswick by Kermit Roosevelt, 1911. Correspondents include Theodore Roosevelt (#34193). Also includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work as Smithsonian field naturalist on the Rainey African Expedition, 1911 (#34431).

#34600 - #35300. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the New York Electrical Exposition, 1911 (#34682); correspondence regarding a collecting trip to the Bahama Islands by Alfred Goldsbourough Mayer, T. Wayland Vaughan, and Paul Bartsch, 1911-1912 (#34750).

#35308 - #35875. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work as Smithsonian field naturalist on the Rainey African Expedition, 1911 (#35391); correspondence concerning the William Joseph Hammer Scientific Collection, 1911, 1932-1938 (#35416).

#35876 - #36125. Includes correspondence regarding the Smithsonian-Harvard expedition to the Altai Mountains of Siberia, 1912. Correspondents include Theodore Lyman, Samuel Henshaw, Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., and Ned Hollister (#36120).

#36126 - #36350

#36351 - #36626

#36626 - #36875

#36876 - #37075. Includes correspondence with Copley P. Amory, Jr., regarding a collecting trip to Alaska, 1912 (#36938).

#37076 - #37325

#37326 - #37575. Includes correspondence concerning the James D. S. Chalmers collection of minerals, 1912-1918, 1939-1940 (#37533).

#37576 - #37850

#37851 - #38100. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, regarding the collection of plants made by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1910-1912 (#37906).

#38101 - #38350. Includes correspondence with Brent I. Altsheler regarding a proposed expedition to Africa, 1912-1913 (#38312).

#38351 - #38600

#38601 - #38700

#38701 - #38950. Includes correspondence with John Percy Moore of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia regarding a controversy over the ownership of a collection of annelids, 1910-1912 (#38828).

#38951 - #39200

#39201 - #39450. Includes correspondence with George Mixter regarding his collecting trip, for the USNM, to Siberia, 1913 (#39253); correspondence with Kermit Roosevelt regarding his collecting work in Brazil, 1913 (#39282); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM and Congress to purchase the McIntire collection of historical objects, 1913-1914 (#39419).

#39451 - #39675. Includes correspondence regarding a collection of firearms lent to the USNM by the U.S. Cartridge Company, 1911-1913 (#39655).

#39676 - #39875

#39876 - #40050. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker regarding the deposit of his collection of Philippine insects in the USNM, 1913 (#39998); correspondence with Samuel Mixter regarding a collecting trip to the Alaskan Peninsula and the Pribiloff Islands, 1913 (#39999); correspondence with Albert M. Reese regarding a collecting expedition to the Philippine Islands under the auspices of the USNM, 1913 (#40035).

#40051 - #40300. Includes correspondence with Nathaniel Lord Britton, Daniel Trembly McDougal, and Joseph Nelson Rose regarding an expedition to the West Indies to investigate cacti, 1912-1913 (#40297).

#40301 - #40550. Includes correspondence documenting relations between the USNM and the National Museum of Venezuela, 1913-1920 (#40499).

#40551 - #40775. Includes correspondence with Joseph Nelson Rose regarding his expedition with Nathaniel Lord Britton to study the cacti of the West Indies, 1913 (#40551).

#40776 - #41025

#41026 - #41200

#41201 - #41450

#41451 - #41725. Includes correspondence with Ernest de Koven Leffingwell regarding his work collecting fossils from Alaska for the USNM, 1913 (#41608).

#41726 - #41975

#41976 - #42175. Includes correspondence with the Bureau of Science, Manila, regarding a collection of Philippine mollusks transmitted to the USNM, 1909-1914. Correspondents include Alvin Joseph Cox and Paul Bartsch (#42039). Also includes correspondence with the Lincoln Memorial Commission regarding an analysis, by George P. Merrill, of the marble selected for use in the construction of the memorial, 1913 (#42095).

#42176 - #42375. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the competition to select a design for the Oliver Hazard Perry Memorial, 1911-1913 (#42179), correspondence with Fred Baker concerning a collecting trip to the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand, 1913 (#42370).

#42376 - #42625. Includes correspondence with Joseph C. Thompson regarding his collecting work at Puget Sound, Washington, 1913 (#42552): correspondence with Charles Schuchert regarding his work on fossil starfish, 1913 (#42580).

#42626 - #42850

#42851 - #43100

#43101 - #43325. Includes correspondence with Elton Clark regarding an expedition to Africa, 1913-1915 (#43301).

#43326 - #43575. Includes correspondence regarding the development of the Division of Mineral Technology, USNM, 1914 (#43510).

#43576 - #43825. Includes correspondence with Harlan Ingersoll Smith regarding the development of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum, Banff, Canada, 1914-1915 (#43707); correspondence regarding a controversy between J. Cummings Vail and the USNM over certain telegraph exhibits, 1913-1914 (#43811).

#43826 - #44025. Includes correspondence with C. T. Summerson regarding a collecting trip to Alaska, 1914 (#43951).

#44026 - #44275

#44276 - #44525. Includes correspondence regarding an attempt by the USNM to secure type mammals described by R. A. Philippi, as a loan from the National Museum of Chile, 1914. Correspondents include Joseph Nelson Rose (#44359). Also includes correspondence concerning the Georg Herman Baur natural history collection from the Galapagos Islands, 1914 (#44521); correspondence with George Thorton Emmons regarding his ethnological collections from the Pacific Northwest, 1913-1914 (#44522).

#44526 - #44800. Includes correspondence concerning William A. Stanton's contributions as a collector for the USNM, 1914 (#44762).

#44801 - #45025. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure specimens of mammals from Yellowstone National Park, 1914 (#44819); correspondence with Harlan Ingersoll Smith concerning the development of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum, 1914 (#44871); correspondence regarding the building stone collection of the USNM, 1912 (#44999).

#45026 - #45300

#45301 - #45500. Includes USNM file on the museum collection of postage stamps, 1910-1934 (#45356).

#45501 - #45750. Includes correspondence with Fred Baker regarding his collecting activities in Japan, 1914 (#45595).

#45751 - #46000. Includes correspondence with Samuel Frederick Hildebrand regarding his study of the fishes collected by the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1914-1915 (#45929).

#46001 - #46250. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange between the USNM and the Irkutsk Museum, Siberia, 1912-1914 (#46079).

#46251 - #46500

#46501 - #46750. Includes correspondence regarding the distribution of mammals collected by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1913-1915 (#46740).

#46751 - #47000. Includes correspondence with George G. Heye regarding his gift of skeletal material to the USNM, 1914-1915 (#46876); correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the Yale-National Geographic Peruvian Expedition of 1914-1915, 1915-1917. Correspondents include Hiram Bingham, Ales Hrdlicka, and William Henry Holmes (#46898). Also includes correspondence with Joseph C. Thompson regarding the USNM exhibit at the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 (#46953).

#47001 - #47275

#47276 - #47500. Includes correspondence regarding relations between the USNM and the Oakland Public Museum, 1914-1916 (#47400); correspondence with Charles Schuchert regarding his work on fossil starfish, 1914-1915 (#47469); correspondence pertaining to the working up of the East Africa Mammal collections in the USNM, including recommendations that Ned Hollister assume responsibility for the work, replacing Edmund Heller, 1915 (#47472); correspondence with Henry R. Amory concerning a proposed scientific expedition to the North Atlantic, 1915 (#47475).

#47501 - #47750. Includes correspondence regarding the late Frederick William True's work on the fossil cetaceans of Virginia and North Carolina, 1915 (#47677).

#47751 - #48000. Includes correspondence with Thomas E. Winecoff regarding his collecting activity in Alaska, 1915 (#47761).

#48001 - #48225. Includes correspondence with the American Smelting and Refining Company regarding the development of the Division of Mineral Technology, USNM, 1915 (#48200).

#48226 - #48450. Includes correspondence with William Jacob Holland of the Carnegie Museum and Richard S. Lull of the Peabody Museum regarding their study of Brontosaurus fossils, 1915-1933 (#48345); correspondence with Charles Rochester Eastman regarding his work on the USNM collection of fossil fishes, 1913-1915 (#48427); USNM file on rules and regulations governing accessions, 1880-1920 (#48429).

#48451 - #48700. Includes correspondence concerning a proposed exchange of ethnological and skeletal material between the USNM and the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, 1913-1914 (#48547); correspondence with Minnie E. Watson regarding her work on crustacea, 1915 (#48590); correspondence with Charles Rochester Eastman regarding his work on the USNM collection of fossil fishes, 1915 (#48651).

#48701 - #48950

#48951 - #49175. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange between the USNM and the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa, 1914-1916 (#49079); correspondence with Rene Koehler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1915 (#49115); correspondence regarding the Simon Newcomb papers housed in the USNM, 1915-1916 (#49134).

#49176 - #49400. Includes correspondence with J. Cummings Vail regarding Alfred Vail and the early history of the telegraph, 1915 (#49232).

#49401 - #49675. Includes correspondence with the Bureau of Fisheries regarding the discovery of mummies and skeletal material on the Aleutian Islands, 1915-1916. Correspondents include Harry John Christoffers (#49417). Also includes correspondence with Charles Atwood Kofoid regarding his plans for a trip to Japan and Ceylon to investigate pearl fisheries, 1915 (#49520); correspondence regarding a gift of ethnological and archeological specimens from USNM to the Reading (Pennsylvania) Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1915 (#49630); correspondence with Theodor Mortensen of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen regarding a collecting trip to Panama, 1915 (#49657).

#49676 - #50025. Includes correspondence with Leonhard Stejneger regarding the 9th International Zoological Congress, Florence, Italy, 1913 (#49861), and correspondence regarding the Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain bequest for promoting the increase and scientific value of the Isaac Lea collection of gems and mollusks, 1894-1917 (#50014).

#50035 - #50250

#50251 - #50475. Includes material regarding USNM relations with the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, including (1) correspondence with Fred Baker and General Frank McIntyre concerning the rumored dissolution of the Bureau and the possible loss of the collections, 1914; (2) correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure a collection of Philippine ethnological specimens exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, and later at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1904-1915; (3) papers relating to the proposed transfer of an entomological collection from the Bureau of Science to the USNM, 1915 (#50350).

#50476 - #50750. Includes correspondence regarding exhibiting the Langley Aerodrome, 1915 (#50660).

#50751 - #50900. Correspondence numbered 50876 to 50889 concerns the Owen Bryant-William Palmer collecting expedition to Java, 1909-1910. The correspondence concerns plans for the expedition, terms of agreement between Bryant and the USNM, personal differences between Palmer and Bryant, the transmission of specimens collected, and the working-up of collections, 1908-1922.

#50901. Correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, ca. 1904-1906. Most of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to secure specimens exhibited at St. Louis.

#50901 (contd.) - #50950

#50951 - #51200. Correspondence numbered 51126-51144 concerns USNM involvement at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Most of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to secure specimens exhibited at San Francisco. Correspondents include William deC. Ravenel.

#51201 - #51375. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to obtain the United States Steel Corporation exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (#51212); correspondence concerning an offer by George D. Seymour to present the USNM with a collection of clocks, 1914-1915 (#51229); material regarding the USNM postal stamp collection, 1915 (#51261); correspondence regarding the development of the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1916-1919. Correspondents include Edward F. Bigelow and Paul G. Howes (#51297).

#51376 - #51650

#51651 - #51925. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange of mollusks between the USNM and W. H. Turton, 1916 (#51870).

#51926 - #52200

#52201 - #52450. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 (#52349); correspondence concerning a proposed exchange between the USNM and the National Museum of Mexico, 1915-1916. Correspondents include Alfonso L. Herrera (#52350). Also includes correspondence with Theodore D. A. Cockerell regarding the planned publication of a systematic list of the higher groups of animals, 1916 (#52425).

#52451 - #52775

#52776 - #53100. Includes correspondence regarding the collection of memorabilia and laboratory apparatus of Joseph Priestley in the USNM. Much of the material concerns the loan of the collection to the Priestley Museum, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 1916-1956 (#53098).

#53101 - #53550. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker regarding a proposed plan for field work in the Malayan countries, 1915-1916 (#53338).

#53551 - #53800

#53801 - #54075. Includes correspondence with Ruben Myron Strong regarding his study of the Albatross. Much of the material concerns efforts by the USNM to obtain Albatross specimens from the Midway Islands, 1914-1916 (#53833).

#54076 - #54350. Includes correspondence regarding Barton Warren Evermann's study of the USNM collection of Peruvian fish, 1912-1915 (#54224).

#54351 - #54625. Includes correspondence with Rene Koehler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Ophiurans, 1916-1920 (#54385).

#54626 - #54825. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the analysis of materials selected for use in the construction of the Lincoln Memorial, 1912-1913 (#54650); correspondence with the Submarine Film Corporation regarding an exhibition of motion pictures taken below the surface of the sea, 1914 (#54651); correspondence regarding an offer by American Telephone and Telegraph Company to donate an exhibit to the USNM illustrating the transcontinental telephone line, 1916-1917 (#54653); correspondence regarding the shipment of ammunition to Cecil Boden Kloss and Henry Cushier Raven for use in collecting mammals and birds from Singapore, 1916-1917 (#54707).

#54826 - #55050. Includes correspondence with Charles Fuller Baker concerning his plan for the extension of biological field work in the Malayan countries, 1916 (#54862); correspondence with Oldfield Thomas, of the British Museum (Natural History) regarding his study of the USNM collection of Peruvian mammals, 1916-1921 (#54881); correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure for exhibition the original Wright Brothers airplane, 1916. Correspondents include Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell (#55029).

#55051 - #55325. Includes copies of reports by Ales Hrdlicka on his trip to Europe to examine human fossil remains, 1912, and his collecting trip to Peru, 1913 (#55180); correspondence with The Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company regarding the possible acquisition of the airplane, "June Bug," 1911 and 1937-1938 (#55197); copies of reports by Frederick L. Lewton regarding his trips to eastern manufacturing cities to secure exhibits for the Division of Textiles, USNM, 1912-1915 (#55252).

#55326 - #55600

#55601 - #55850

#55851 - #56075. Includes a report by Frederick William True on the museums of New York, 1906 (#55903); correspondence regarding the reported discovery, by Elias Howard Sellards, of fossil human remains at Vero, Florida, 1916 (#56016); correspondence regarding a controversy between James Cummings Vail and the USNM over the museum's method of exhibiting artifacts relating to the history of the telegraph, 1915-1916 (#56029).

#56076 - #56300. Includes correspondence with Lincoln Ellsworth, mostly concerning offers to perform field work for the USNM, 1916-1922 (#56161).

#56301 - #56650

#56651 - #56900

#56901 - #57200

#57201 - #57525. Includes correspondence regarding relations between the USNM and the National Geological Survey of China. Most of the material relates to the identification of fossil specimens by the USNM, 1915-1927. Correspondents include John Gunnar Andersson (#57421). Also includes correspondence regarding the possible acquisition of the Robert C. Hall ethnological collection by the USNM, 1917-1918 (#57481).

#57526 - #57785. Includes correspondence concerning a proposed exploration of the Orinoco Valley, Venezuela, by Major C. C. Smith, USA, 1916-1917 (#57575).

#57800 - #58025

#58026 - #58225. Includes correspondence with Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman of the University of Toronto concerning his work on the USNM collection of Pacific ascidians, 1909-1922.

#58226 - #58550. Includes correspondence with Reuben Myron Strong regarding his study of the anatomy of birds, 1917-1946 (#58378).

#58551 - #58775. Includes correspondence regarding the death of Randolph Iltyd Geare, 1917 (#58599); correspondence regarding a gift of Paleozoic fossils from the USNM to the University of Virginia, 1917 (#58694).

#58776 - #58975. Includes correspondence concerning the exchange of anthropological collections between the USNM and the museum of the Catholic University of America, 1917-1918. Correspondents include Henry Hyvernat and Romain Francois Butin (#58806). Also includes correspondence with Theodoor de Booy concerning his collecting work in the West Indies, 1916-1917 (#58894); correspondence regarding Walter Kenrick Fisher's work on Philippine starfish, 1917-1918 (#58926); correspondence regarding the Dwight J. Partello bequest, 1915-1922 (#58953).

#58976 - #59325. Includes correspondence regarding plants collected by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1911 (#59004); correspondence regarding a motor used by Emile Berliner in his helicopter experiment, which was exhibited in the USNM, 1917-1919 (#59095).

#59326 - #59600

#59601 - #59925

#59926 - #60150. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, 1915-1916 (#60063); report by William deC. Ravenel on the material acquired at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915-1916 (#60068).

#60151 - #60425. Includes correspondence regarding a lost collection of Philippine algae, 1917-1918. Correspondents include William Albert Setchell, Marshall Avery Howe, Hugh McCormick Smith, Frank S. Collins, and William Ralph Maxon (#60277).

#60426 - #60675. Includes correspondence regarding USNM relations with the Bourne Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1917-1918 (#60441).

#60676 - #61075. Includes correspondence concerning the bequest of Mrs. John B. Bernadou to the USNM, 1890, 1910-1917 (#60966); correspondence concerning Willard G. Van Name's work on the USNM collection of Philippine ascidians, 1917 (#61036).

#61075 - #61375. Includes correspondence regarding the Bernard Rogan Ross ethnological collections in the USNM, 1917-1919 (#61178).

#61376 - #61700. Includes correspondence with the American Red Cross and the Surgeon General of the Army regarding the suitability of sphagnum moss as a surgical dressing, 1917-1918 (#61384); correspondence with Henry A. Pilsbry regarding his work on the USNM collection of African mollusks, 1918 and 1932 (#61468).

#61701 - #62000

#62001 - #62350

#62351 - #62650. Includes correspondence regarding a gift of natural history specimens presented by the USNM to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1918-1919 (#62396).

#62651 - #62950

#62951 - #63221. Includes correspondence with Edmund Heller regarding his work on Peruvian mammals, 1918 (#63006).

#63222. Includes correspondence regarding the use of the USNM building by The Bureau of War Risk Insurance during World War I, 1917-1919 (1 folder); correspondence regarding the establishment of an exhibit of material from World War I, 1916-1922. Most of the correspondence is with the War Department and concerns the acquisition of war materials (7 folders).

#63223 - #63525

#63526 - #63775. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of fishes collected by the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1918-1920 (#63531); correspondence regarding a collection of textile specimens lent to the USNM by Mrs. James W. Pinchot, 1915-1920. Correspondents include Gifford Pinchot (#63649). Also includes correspondence regarding a controversy over the USNM's method of exchanging duplicate postal stamps from its collections, 1916 (#63652); correspondence regarding the acquisition by the USNM of the Richard Mansfield Collection of Theatrical Costumes, 1918-1919 (#63732).

#63776 - #64100

#64101 - #64250. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the State Teachers College, East Radford, Virginia, 1915-1932 (#64114); also includes #48426.

#64251 - #64450. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Fishery Congress of 1908 (#64307); correspondence regarding a planned collecting trip to the Dominican Republic and Haiti by William Louis Abbott, 1918 (#64316).

#64451 - #64675. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to secure the release of Arthur deC. Sowerby from service in the British Army, 1919. Also contains plans for Sowerby's exploration of South China (#64593); correspondence concerning a gift from the museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation to the USNM of skeletal material from excavations at Hawikuh, New Mexico, 1918-1919 (#64607).

#64676 - #64875

#64876 - #65100. Includes correspondence regarding the restoration of Pithecanthropus, Chapelle-auxSaints and Heidelberg skulls by James H. McGregor of Columbia University, 1918-1919 (#64950).

#65101 - #65250. Includes correspondence regarding USNM relations with The American Association of Museums, 1919-1925 (#65165).

#65251 - #65500

#65501 - #65775. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his work on the USNM collection of foraminifera, 1918-1919 (#65660); correspondence with Willis Alonzo Dewey of the University of Michigan regarding the Division of Medicine, USNM, 1918-1919 (#65662 and #65663).

#65776 - #66000. Includes correspondence regarding the acquisition of the B. F. Chandler herbarium by the USNM, 1918-1919 (#65957).

#66001 - #66250. Includes correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding his collecting work in Santo Domingo, 1919 (#66086).

#66251 - #66475

#66476 - #66750

#66751 - #67000

#67001 - #67275

#67276 - #67550

#67551 - #67775. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to St. Joseph Junior College, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1919-1927 (#67553); correspondence concerning the possible acquisition by the USNM of skeletal material collected by the Pecos Expedition of the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1919. Correspondents include Alfred Vincent Kidder (#67579).

#67776 - #68000. Includes correspondence regarding a proposed joint study of Philippine flora by the Philippine Bureau of Science and the USNM, 1915-1924 (#67969).

#68001 - #68275. Includes correspondence regarding the Morris Loeb Collection of Chemical Compounds in the USNM, 1917-1923 (#68055); correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding a collecting trip to Haiti, 1919-1920 (#68114); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, 1920-1924 (#68175).

#68276 - #68550

#68551 - #68800. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1920 (#68671).

#68801 - #69025

#69026 - #69300. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed George Washington Memorial Building, planned for construction on the Mall, 1914-1940 (#69042).

#69301 - #69525. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1920 (#69334); correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the Pan American Union, 1920-1921, 1941-1942 (#69397); correspondence regarding Paul Bartsch's study of the American shipworm, 1920 (#69404).

#69526 - #69700. Includes correspondence regarding attempts by the SI to acquire the Donn Collection of clothing worn by Abraham Lincoln at the time of his assassination, 1920-1967 (#69608); correspondence regarding a proposed expedition to Costa Rica by K. I. Herman and John Alden Loring, 1920-1921 (#69651).

#69701 - #69950

#69951 - #70175

#70176 - #70400

#70401 - #70650. Includes correspondence with William Louis Abbott regarding his collecting trip to Santo Domingo, 1920 (#70469); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Louisiana State School for the Blind, 1920-1921 (#70574).

#70651 - #70875. Includes correspondence with the American Association of Economic Entomologists regarding the development of the Division of Entomology, USNM, 1913-1921. Correspondents include John June Davis and Theodore D. A. Cockerell (#70739).

#70876 - #71100. Includes correspondence with E. W. Deming regarding a collecting trip to Colombia, 1920 (#71093).

#71101 - #71325

#71326 - #71575. Includes correspondence regarding films from the Smithsonian-Universal Film Manufacturing Co. African Expedition, 1920 (#71327); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, 1911-1938 (#71419).

#71576 - #71775. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Silk Exposition, New York, 1921. Correspondents include Robert Stewart Culin (#71608).

#71776 - #72025. Includes correspondence regarding John Merton Aldrich's entomological exploration of Alaska, 1921 (#71876); correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his study of the USNM collection of Formosan fishes, 1921 (#71954).

#72026 - #72225. Includes correspondence regarding gifts and loans from the USNM to the Newark Museum Association, 1921-1926 (#72109); correspondence regarding the condemnation and disposition of old records of the USNM, 1921-1942 (#72138); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1921-1926 (#72187).

#72226 - #72500

#72501 - #72725

#72726 - #72975. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding his collecting work in China, 1921 (#72909).

#72976 - #73075. Includes correspondence concerning the Charles Francis Jenkins-Thomas Armat controversy over motion picture machines exhibited in the USNM, 1921-1928 (#73055).

#73076 - #73300. Includes correspondence regarding a planned botanical collecting trip to Central America by Paul Carpenter Standley, 1921. Correspondents include Nathaniel Lord Britton and B. L. Robinson (#73254). Also includes correspondence with Neil M. Judd regarding the Pueblo Bonito Expedition of the National Geographic Society, 1921 (#73260).

#73301 - #73525

#73527 - #73750. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1921, 1934 (#73636); correspondence regarding the sale of the Frank S. Collins herbarium and library, 1920-1922 (#73649).

#73751 - #74000. Includes correspondence with Arthur Cleveland Bent regarding his work on life histories of North American petrels and pelicans, 1921 (#73778).

#74001 - #74250. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the National Museum of Guatemala, 1921-1924, 1935 (#74223).

#74251 - #74450

#74451 - #74650. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the search for the Port Orford (Oregon) Meteorite, 1900-1902, 1917-1947. Correspondents include William F. Foshag, Joseph Silas Diller, Robert M. Harrison, Myron O. Kilgore (#74505).

#74651 - #74875

#74876 - #75150

#75151 - #75400

#75401 - #75625

#75626 - #75825. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Mexico, 1919-1922. The material also contains a statement by William Ralph Maxon regarding Orcutt and his work (#75720).

#75826 - #76025. Includes correspondence concerning gifts from the USNM to Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1922-1931 (#75869).

#76026 - #76275. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 1922-1923 (#76042).

#76276 - #76450. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of a public health exhibit in the USNM, 1922-1924 (#76354).

#76451 - #76600. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Harriman Museum, Harriman, Tennessee, 1922-1928 (#76542).

#76601 - #76646. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a National Museum of Engineering and Industry under the direction of the Smithsonian, 1922-1933 (#76646).

#76647 - #76850

#76851 - #77050. Includes correspondence with Robert Sterling Clark regarding a proposed collecting trip to China, 1922-1923 (#76877); correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the Pageant of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1922 (#76927); correspondence regarding the H. H. Noice Eskimo collection, 1922 (#76936).

#77051 -#77275. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding his collecting work in China, 1922 (#77206).

#77276 - #77525. Includes correspondence with R. T. Burge regarding his African expeditions, 1922-1927 (#77501).

#77526 - #77775. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of fishes made by the Albatross during 1907-1910, 1922-1942 (#77756).

#77776 - #77950

#77951 - #78175

#78176 - #78375. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Alabama Central College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1922-1923 (#78238).

#78376 - 478625. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his botanical collecting work in Arizona, 1922 (#78444).

#78626 - #78850. Includes correspondence with Robert Broom regarding his paleontological field work in South Africa, 1922-1923 (#78627).

#78851 - #78925. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #1, "How Prints are Made," 1934-1949 (#78921).

#78926 - #79125

#79126 - #79325. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1922-1923 (#79146).

#79326 - #79525. Includes correspondence with Theodore D. A. Cockerell regarding a proposed collecting trip to Siberia, 1923 (#79432); correspondence with Charles R. Aschemeier and Arthur H. Fisher concerning their collecting expedition to the Amazon River basin in Brazil, 1923 (#79435).

#79526 - #79713. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1923-1924 (#79577).

#79714. Contains correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM, Traveling Exhibit #2, "How Prints are Made," 1923-1948.

#79715 - #79900

#79901 - #80125

#80126 - #80375

#80376 - #80575

#80576 - #80775. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to Alabama College, Montevallo, Alabama, 1923-1930 (#80761).

#80776 - #80950. Includes correspondence with Paul Carpenter Standley regarding his botanical field work in Panama and Costa Rica, 1923-1924 (#80941).

#80951 - #81150

#81151 - #81250. Includes correspondence regarding the death of Charles N. Hoy, who was collecting natural history specimens for the USNM in China, 1923-1924 (#81206); correspondence regarding a joint effort between the SI and the state of Pennsylvania resulting in the publication of "The Smithsonian Institution's Study of Natural Resources Applied to Pennsylvania's Resources," by Samuel S. Wyer (1923), 1922-1926 (#81206).

#81251 - #81450. Includes correspondence and publications concerning the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, including criticism by George P. Merrill, 1923 (#81409).

#81451 - #81675. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1923-1924 (#81600).

#81676 - #81875. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1924 (#81833).

#81876 - #82100

#82101 - #82300

#82301 - #82500. Includes correspondence regarding the Oldroyd Collection of Lincoln relics, 1922-1932 (#82471).

#82501 - #82675. Includes correspondence regarding George Washington relics in the USNM, 1924-1934 (#82646).

#82676 - #82900. Includes correspondence with Lee A. Collins regarding his inventions relating to talking motion pictures, 1924 (#82876).

#82901 - #83125. Includes correspondence with Elizabeth Deichmann regarding her collecting activities in Panama, 1924 (#82910).

#83126 - #83375. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham concerning his collecting activities in China, 1924 (#83203).

#83376 - #83750

#83751 - #84075. Includes correspondence regarding SI participation in the Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1926 (#83791).

#84076 - #84400. Includes correspondence with Kermit Roosevelt regarding ownership of mammal heads and skins he collected on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909, 1924-1925 (#84397).

#84401 - #84625

#84626 - #85050

#85051 - #85425. Includes correspondence with Lincoln Ellsworth concerning his planned participation in the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flying Expedition, 1924 (#85206).

#85426 - #85725. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the second Marsh-Darien Expedition, 1924 (#85487).

#85726 - #86075

#86076 - #86375. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, containing notes on his trips to Tatienlu and Songpan, 1924-1925 (#86177); correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's trip to the Far East, Australia, and South Africa to conduct physical anthropology studies, 1925. The letter of 14 July 1925 includes Hrdlicka's views on William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Monkey trial (#86192).

#86376 - #86675. Includes correspondence regarding Ales Hrdlicka's "Catalogue of Human Crania in the United States National Museum Collections," 1922-1941. Correspondents include Roland Burrage Dixon (#86402).

#86676 - #86875. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #3, "How Prints are Made," 1932-1948 (#86849).

#86876 - #87275

#87276 - #87625. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting activities in China, 1925 (#87561).

#87626 - #87900

#87901 - #88375. Includes correspondence regarding the death of John L. Baer while serving as Smithsonian representative on the Marsh-Darien Expedition of 1924, 1925 (#88350).

#88376 - #88650

#88651 - #89100

#89101 - #89300. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #4, "How Prints are Made," 1932-1948 (#89127).

#89301 - #89575. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1925 (#89430).

#89576 - #89925. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #6, "How Prints are Made," 1933-1946 (#89796).

#89926 - #90125

#90126 - #90375. Includes correspondence with Charles Torry Simpson regarding his financial assistance of Paul Bartsch's study of West Indian mollusks, 1925-1929 (#90242).

#90376 - #90825

#90826 - #91075

#91076 - #91400. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1925 (#91202).

#91401 - #91600. Includes correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the H. J. Heinz Co. for exhibition at the Heinz Ocean Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1926-1931 (#91479); correspondence regarding the Arthur Cleveland Bent collection of birds' eggs in the USNM, 1926-1935 (#91558).

#91601 - #91700. Includes correspondence regarding the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #5, 1926-1948 (#91682).

#91701 - #92050

#92051 - #92325

#92326 - #92675

#92676 - #92950. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collections made in China, 1926 (#92696).

#92951 - #93200. Includes correspondence with Richard Evelyn Byrd regarding the possible acquisition of the airplane "Josephine Ford," which was used on the Byrd Polar Expedition, 1926-1927 (#93043).

#93201 - #93600. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his plans for collecting natural history specimens in China, 1926 (#93281); correspondence regarding the Thomas Jefferson writing desk in the USNM, 1924-1932 (#93330); correspondence regarding the Progress Exposition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1926-1927 (#93340).

#93601 - #93850. Includes reports on paleontological research conducted in Java submitted by the American Consul at Batavia, Java, 1926 (#93634).

#93851 - #94075

#94076 - #94375

#94376 - #94750

#94751 - #95050. Includes correspondence with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation regarding the possible acquisition by the USNM of a Wright Whirlwind J-5 airplane engine, 1927-1929 (#95032).

#95051 - #95350. Includes correspondence with Frank M. Carpenter regarding his study of the USNM collection of fossil insects, 1926-1928 (#95331).

#95351 - #95598. Includes a report by Hugh McCormick Smith on "The Fish of Siam," submitted by the American Consul at Bangkok, 1926 (#95573); correspondence regarding USNM participation at the International Exposition, Seville, Spain (1927), 1927-1930 (#95591).

#95599 - #95750. Includes a voluminous amount of correspondence with David C. Graham mostly concerning his collecting work for the USNM in Szechwan Province, West China, 1927-1940. Materials of special interest include correspondence regarding the progress of collecting expeditions, financial matters, collections made, and Graham's academic career at the University of Chicago (1927) and Harvard University (1932) (#95599).

#95751 - #96025. Includes correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Hastings Museum, Hastings, Nebraska, 1927-1941 (#95802).

#96026 - #96325

#96326 - #96700

#96701 - #97150. Includes correspondence with Walter W. Holmes regarding his collection of fossil bird bones, 1927 (#97136).

#97151 - #97450

#97451 - #97750

#97751 - #98075. Includes correspondence with Childs Frick regarding his financial contributions to James W. Gidley's paleontological field research, 1927 (#97754).

#98076 - #98350

#98351 - #98650

#98651 - #98925. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding restrictions on natural history collecting imposed by the Chinese government, 1927 (#98909).

#98926 - #99200. Includes correspondence with Richard O. Marsh regarding USNM participation in a proposed expedition to South America to rescue the lost aviator Paul Redfern and conduct scientific research, 1927. Correspondents include W. Kenneth Cuyler (#98957).

#99201 - #99475. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy between the USNM and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia over certain entomological material loaned to Robert D. Glasgow, 1913-1941 (#99402).

#99476 - #99700

#99701 - #99950. Includes correspondence with Harold C. Hallock regarding his study of the USNM entomological collections, 1928-1934 (#99879).

#99951 - #100225. Includes correspondence with the Brush-Swan Electric Light Co. regarding electrical apparatus loaned to the USNM, 1883-1891 (#99962).

#100226 - #100425. Includes correspondence with Henry Woodman regarding a planned anthropological collecting trip to Alaska, 1928 (#100258); correspondence with Henri Coutiere regarding his study of the USNM collection of Alpheidae crustaceans, 1900-1929 (#100397); correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Jamaica, 1928 (#100407).

#100426 - #100700. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, 1928-1931 (#100429); correspondence regarding gifts from the USNM to the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1928-1942 (#100684).

#100701 - #101050. Includes correspondence regarding the discovery of ancient skeletal material at Palatka, Florida, 1928 (#100925).

#101051 - #101325

#101326 - #101675

#101676 - #101900. Includes correspondence, mostly from the general public, regarding the exhibition of the Spirit of St. Louis in the USNM, 1928-1936 (#101691).

#101901 - #102100. Includes correspondence regarding the collection of first ladies' gowns in the USNM, 1928-1942 (#101909); correspondence regarding the proposed purchase of the Virgil Michael Brand collection of coins, 1928-1930 (#102084).

#102101 - #102400

#102401 - #102575. Includes correspondence regarding the Salmon River Expedition of the State College of Washington, 1928 (#102476); correspondence with Hugo Worch, Honorary Custodian of Musical Instruments, USNM, 1921-1935 (#102520).

#102576 - #102925. Includes correspondence regarding Neil M. Judd's anthropological field work at Folsom, New Mexico, 1928. Correspondents include Barnum Brown and Kirk Bryan (#102602).

#102926 - #103225. Includes correspondence regarding loans from the USNM to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, 1928-1941 (#103041).

#103226 - #103500. Includes correspondence regarding an exchange of specimens between the USNM and The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1928-1929. Correspondents include Neil M. Judd and C. T. Currelly (#103252). Also included is a report on the American-Brazilian Scientific Expedition to the Amazon Valley submitted by the American Consulate General at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1929 (#103402).

#103501 - #103800. Includes correspondence regarding G. C. Robson's study of the USNM collection of cephalopods, 1928-1929 (#103677).

#103801 - #104125. Includes correspondence on William Ralph Maxon's study of the ferns of Jamaica, 1928-1948 (#104018).

#104126 - #104450

#104451 - #104675. Includes correspondence with Charles Russell Orcutt regarding his collecting work in Haiti, 1929 (#104624).

#104676 - #104950. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Buffalo Aviation Show, Buffalo, New York, 1929 (#104902).

#104951 - #105200. Includes correspondence regarding a joint effort between the USNM and the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, to secure skeletal material at Point Barrow, Alaska, 1929-1946 (#104959); correspondence with Friedrich Ohaus regarding his work on the USNM collection of scarabeid beetles, 1929-1934 (#105193).

#105201 - #105425. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his work on the USNM collection of Philippine fishes, 1928-1930 (#105218).

#105426 - #105500. Includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of State containing reports on international scientific activity submitted by American consuls in foreign countries, 1929-1947 (#105478).

#105501 - #105775. Includes correspondence regarding the joint purchase of a meteorite by the USNM and Harvard University, 1929-1930 (#105580).

#105776 - #106050. Includes correspondence regarding Arthur Loveridge's work on the USNM collection of African reptiles, 1926-1931 (#105800).

#106051 - #106325. Includes correspondence regarding the establishment of a reference herbarium in the Panama Canal Zone, 1923, 1929-1930 (#106177).

#106326 - #106575

#106576 - #106850

#106851 - #107200

#107201 - #107475

#107476 - #107700. Includes correspondence with Arthur George Bennett regarding his work collecting ornithological specimens for the USNM from the Falkland Islands, 1929-1930 (#107493); correspondence with Charles L. Bernheimer regarding the seventh and eighth Bernheimer Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, 1929-1930 (#107494).

#107701 - #107950. Includes correspondence regarding an aerial survey of prehistoric canal systems bordering the Gila and Salt River Valleys, Arizona, conducted by Neil N. Judd, 1929-1959 (#107910).

#107951 - #108200. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith relative to his collecting work in Siam, 1929-1930 (#107971).

#108201 - #108450. Includes correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a radio section in the USNM, 1929-1933 (#108225); a report on archeological excavation of prehistoric ruins in Arizona by Neil M. Judd, 1929 (#108234); Radio Section (USNM)/Radio Museum (#108225).

#108451 - #108675. Includes correspondence with Arthur Torrance regarding a proposed expedition to Central Africa, 1929-1931 (#108526).

#108676 - #108925. Includes correspondence regarding a lost collection of Philippine fishes collected on the Albatross expedition of 1904-1905, 1925-1932 (#108783).

#108926 - #109275. Includes correspondence with Owen Bryant regarding USNM cooperation in working up his entomological collections, 1930. The letter of 3/21/1930 from Bryant to John Merton Aldrich contains remarks on his expedition to Java with William Palmer, 1909-1910 (#109253). Also includes correspondence concerning USNM participation in the Printing Exposition, Richmond, Virginia, 1930 (#109261).

#109276 - #109450. Includes correspondence regarding the collecting work of Charles Russell Orcutt and the disposition of his natural history collections from Jamaica and Haiti, 1928-1932 (#109326).

#109451 - #109625. Includes correspondence regarding A. Remington Kellogg's participation at the meeting of the Economic Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, 1930 (#109463).

#109626 - #109950

#109551 - #110050. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the George Washington Bicentennial, 1930-1933 (#110021).

#110051 - #110275. Includes copies of correspondence with Edgar Alexander Mearns regarding his work on the Mexican-United States International Boundary Commission, 1891-1894. Also included are two letters from Frank X. Holzner, while serving on the same commission, 1892 (#110201). Also includes correspondence regarding a controversy between Ales Hrdlicka and Roy L. Moodie, 1930 (#110228).

#110276 - #110525

#110526 - #110875. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of fossil and recent foraminifera, 1930-1946 (#110664).

#110876 - #111075. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting activities in Siam, 1930 (#111002); correspondence regarding a collecting expedition to Alaska by Ales Hrdlicka, 1930 (#111064).

#111076 - #111300. Includes correspondence with Glover Morrill Allen regarding his study of the USNM collection of American bats, 1922-1941 (#111084).

#111301 - #111650

#111651 - #111950

#111951 - #112225

#112226 - #112500

#112501 - #112800

#112801 - #113050. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition at Paris, 1930-1932 (#112921); correspondence with G. M. Dyott regarding the Dyott Brazil Expedition of 1931 (#113021); correspondence regarding the preparation of a bibliography of Asiatic botany by Elmer Drew Merrill and Egbert Hamilton Walker, 1930-1937 (#113025).

#113051 - #113325

#113326 - #113625

#113626 - #113652. Includes correspondence documenting the role of the SI in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, 1931-1935 (#113652).

#113652 (cont'd) - #113850

#113851 - #114125

#114126 - #114375

#114376 - #114600. Includes correspondence regarding USNM participation in the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, 1931-1932 (#114393).

#114601 - #114900. Includes a report on the need for an additional building to house the collections of the National Gallery of Art, 1924 (#114658).

#114901 - #115150. Includes correspondence regarding the natural history collections made on the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone (1911-1912), 1927-1932. Most of the correspondence concerns the division of the collections between the USNM and the Field Museum of Natural History (#114963).

#115151 - #115400

#115401 - #115650

#115651 - #115975. Includes correspondence with Charles Elmer Resser regarding his field research in Europe, 1931 (#115880).

#115976 - #116225

#116226 - #116550

#116551 - #116800. Includes correspondence regarding the Isobel H. Lenman collection of Old World Archeology which was loaned to the USNM for exhibit, 1931-1944 (#116769).

#116801 - #117025

#117026 - #117300. Includes correspondence with George Gaylord Simpson regarding his work on the Fort Union collection of vertebrate fossils in the USNM, 1931-1940 (#117255).

#117301 - #117575. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1931 (#117384); correspondence regarding the collection of American Period Costumes in the USNM, 1914-1933. Correspondents include Rose Gouverneur Hoes (#117574).

#117576 - #117850

#117851 - #118125. Includes correspondence and reports on archeological excavations by the SI in Alaska, 1931-1945 (#117860); correspondence with Robert Hastings Palmer regarding his work collecting birds for the USNM in Cuba, 1931-1932 (#117940).

#118126 - #118325

#118326 - #118575

#118576 - #118875

#118876 - #119150. Includes correspondence with Carl Whiting Bishop of the Freer Gallery of Art regarding his archeological field work in China, 1932 (#119041).

#119151 - #119355. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph A. Holmes Association of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1933-1947. Included are annual reports and minutes of meetings (#119355).

#119356 - #119600. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of foraminifera in Europe, 1932 (#119412); correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1932 (#119496).

#119601 - #119925. Includes correspondence regarding Horace K. Richards' collecting work in Bermuda, 1932 (#119899).

#119926 - #120200. Includes correspondence with Richard Evelyn Byrd regarding efforts by the USNM to secure aeronautical equipment used on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, 1932-1934 (#120108); correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work collecting meteorites for the USNM, 1932 (#120199).

#120201 - #120475. Includes correspondence regarding a collection of fishes collected by the Albatross loaned to Stanford University, 1931-1933. Correspondents include George Sprague Myers, Albert W. Herre, Albert Eide Parr, and Carl Leavitt Hubbs (#120336). #120396 also includes #115984.

#120476 - #120700. Includes correspondence with Ermine Cowles Case regarding his work on fossil birds, 1932-1933 (#120689).

#120701 - #120950

#120951 - #121225. Includes correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work collecting meteorites for the USNM, 1932 (#121068).

#121226 - #121450. Includes correspondence regarding loans and gifts from the USNM to the Kingman Memorial Museum of Natural History, Battle Creek (Michigan) Public Schools, 1924-1935 (#121426). #121426 also includes numbers 82299 and 134428.

#121451 - #121725

#121726 - #121975

#121976 - #122200

#122201 - #122450

#122451 - #122675

#122676 - #122950. Includes correspondence concerning the sale of two generators used by Thomas Alva Edison during his first demonstration of incandescent electric lighting in 1874, 1933-1937 (#122898).

#122951 - #123175. Includes correspondence with Frank M. Setzler regarding his archeological investigations in southwestern Texas and Louisiana, 1933 (#123162).

#123176 - #123450

#123451 - #123700

#123701 - #123900. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham regarding his collecting work in China, 1933 (#123802).

#123901 - #124150. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1932-1935 (#123926); correspondence regarding a gift of German World War I material sent to the Guam Museum from the USNM, 1933 (#124005).

#124151 - #124425

#124426 - #124750. Includes correspondence regarding the Pacific Entomological Survey of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, 1933-1934 (#124431).

#124751 - #125000

#125001 - #125250. Includes correspondence with Charles A. Lindbergh regarding an agreement with the Missouri Historical Society to exhibit his collection of personal memorabilia, 1933 (#125225).

#125251 - #125550

#125551 - #125875

#125876 - #126150. Includes correspondence regarding an attempt by the USNM to secure the Nordenskiold Mesa Verde Collection from the Finnish National Museum by way of an exchange, 1932-1935 (#125980).

#126151 - #126425

#126426 - #126700

#126701 - #127000

#127001 - #127350

#127351 - #127675. Includes correspondence regarding the Joseph Nelson Rose Collection of living cacti, 1933-1937 (#127647).

#127676 - #127925

#127926 - #128300. Includes correspondence with Hugh McCormick Smith regarding his collecting work in Siam, 1934-1935 (#128276).

#128301 - #128600

#128601 - #128800. Includes correspondence with T. Wayland Vaughan regarding USNM activities in oceanography, including the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition, 1933-1934 (#128697); correspondence with Joseph J. Hall of the Florida Archeological Society regarding the Civil Works Administration's archeological work in Florida under the direction of the SI, 1934 (#128748).

#128801 - #129100. Includes material regarding specimens transferred from the Army Medical Museum to the USNM, 1877-1878 (#128876); correspondence with J. Neilson Berry regarding his anthropological investigations in Oregon and Washington, 1934-1935 (#129068); correspondence regarding a cooperative arrangement between the SI and George Washington University to exhibit the Osborne collection of Guatemalan textiles in the USNM, 1933-1934 (#129096).

#129101 - #129375

#129376 - #129650

#129651 - #130000. Includes correspondence with Henry Weed Fowler regarding his study of fishes from the tropical Indian Ocean in the USNM collections, 1933-1934 (#129717); correspondence with Avery R. Grant regarding her work on the USNM collection of acmaea, 1934-1937 (#129884).

#130001 - #130250. Includes correspondence with Joseph A. Cushman regarding his study of bottom samples collected on the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition, 1934 (#130076).

#130251 - #130675

#130676 - #130925

#130926 - #131175. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904-1906, 1959 (#131110).

#131176 - #131475

#131476 - #131775. Includes correspondence with Harvey Harlow Nininger regarding his field work and research on meteorites, 1934-1935 (#131654).

#131776 - #132109

#132110. USNM-U.S. Treasury Department correspondence, 1935-1960. Most of the material is directed to the Division of History, USNM, and contains requests for numismatic information.

#132111 - #132500

#132501 - #132825

#132826 - #133000

#133001 - #133325. Includes correspondence concerning a collecting trip to Arkansas by Edward P. Henderson, 1935 (#133222).

#133326 - #133600

#133601 - #133900

#133901 - #134200

#134201 - #134425

#134426 - #134600. Includes records documenting Smithsonian involvement at the California-Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935 (#134568).

#134601 - #134950

#134951 - #135375

#135376 - #135625

#135626 - #135900. Includes correspondence with T. Wayland Vaughan regarding his work on the USNM coral collections, 1935-1936 (#135745); correspondence with Ellsworth Paine Killip regarding a collecting trip to Europe, 1935 (#135798).

#135901 - #136225

#136226 - #136550

#136551 - #136850

#136851 - #137250

#137251 - #137550

#137551 - #137800

#137801 - #138100. Includes correspondence concerning Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr.'s, work on the Holt collection of birds from northern South America in the USNM, 1936-1940 (#138078).

#138101 - #138400

#138401 - #138750. Includes correspondence concerning Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr.'s, work on the Holt collection of birds from northern South America, 1936-1938 (#138436).

#138751 - #139000. Includes incoming correspondence of Charles Rau, 1877-1880 (#138804-138806); correspondence regarding an agreement between the USNM and the National Museum of Costa Rica to pursue paleontological field work in Costa Rica, 1936-1937 (#138919); correspondence with James E. Benedict regarding Samuel P. Langley's aerodrome experiments, 1936 (#138979).

#139001 - #139300

#139301 - #139650

#139651 - #140025. Includes correspondence concerning the Annie M. Hegerman lace and textile collection in the USNM, 1936-1937 (#139661).

#140026 - #140300. Includes records documenting Smithsonian involvement at the Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, 1936 (#140207 and #140208).

#140301 - #140550. Includes correspondence concerning a projected expedition to Algeria by Herbert Friedmann, 1936 (#140406); correspondence with Erwin P. Dieseldorff regarding his research on Mayan archeology in Guatemala and Honduras, 1936-1938 (#140424).

#140551 - #140975. Includes material concerning a field trip by Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., to examine Chickasaw village sites in Mississippi and Louisiana, 1938 (#140684).

#140976 - #141300

#141301 - #141600

#141601 - #141875. Includes correspondence and other records concerning Herbert Girton Deignan's collecting work in Siam, 1936-1937 (#141686); correspondence concerning the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition to the West Indies of 1933, 1936-1937, 1941 (#141834).

#141876 - #142200. Includes correspondence with Arthur deC. Sowerby regarding collecting work in China, 1931 and 1936 (#141879).

#142201 - #142625.

#142626 - #142925. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to recover botanical specimens loaned to Charles University, Praha, Czechoslovakia, 1937, 1947-1949 (#142697).

#142926 - #143175. Includes correspondence regarding Stanley John's work collecting birds for the USNM in the British West Indies, 1935-1938 (#143011).

#143176 - #143450

#143451 - #143800. Includes correspondence concerning Smithsonian involvement in the New York World's Fair of 1939, 1937-1938 (#143711).

#143801 - #144550

#144551 - #144900. Includes correspondence regarding archeological field work in Arizona by Charles W. Gilmore and Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 1937 (#144740).

#144901 - #145350

#145351 - #145750

#145751 - #146300. Includes correspondence from W. T. White to Spencer F. Baird, 1884 (#145822).

#146301 - #146925

#146926 - #147725

#147726 - #148200. Includes correspondence from J. M. Allen to Spencer F. Baird, 1884 (#147808).

#148201 - #148475

#148476 - #149100

#149101 - #149400

#149401 - #149900. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to purchase the Ward-Coonley meteorite collection, 1907-1909 (#149485); correspondence concerning archeological field work in Texas by Frank M. Setzler and Laurence L. Wilson, 1938 (#149521); correspondence with Frank C. Baker regarding his work on the USNM mollusk collections, 1938-1941 (#149626).

#149901 - #150450. Includes correspondence regarding SI involvement at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 (#150324). Loaned out 1980.

#150451 - #150950. Includes correspondence regarding SI involvement at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 (#150716).

#150951 - #151400

#151401 - #151775. Includes correspondence concerning Doris Mabel Cochran's investigation of reptile collections in European museums, 1938-1939 (#151451).

#151776 - #152250

#152251 - #152775

#152776 - #153250. Includes correspondence regarding the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Archeological Expedition to Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1938-1939. Also included is material concerning subsequent investigations at Vera Cruz by Matthew William Stirling sponsored by the National Geographical Society and SI, 1940-1941 (#152793).

#153251 - #153600. Includes correspondence concerning SI involvement in the proposed National Geographic Society-University of Virginia Expedition to the South Pacific Islands, 1939 (#153379).

#153601 - #153950

#153951 - #154575

#154576 - #155125

#155126 - #155575. Includes correspondence regarding archeological field work by Walter W. Taylor, Jr., at Coahuila, Mexico, under the auspices of the USNM, 1940-1941, 1940-1945 (#155393); correspondence concerning the Division of Graphic Arts, USNM Traveling Exhibit #7, "How Prints are Made," 1939-1948 (#155540).

#155576 - #156400

#156401 - #156900

#156901 - #157600

#157601 - #158125

#158126 - #158625

#158626 - #159300

#159301 - #159775. Includes correspondence with Edward Deming Andrews regarding the possible donation of a collection of Shaker artifacts to the USNM, 1941, 1957-1959 (#159587).

#159776 - #160425

#160426 - #160950

#160951 - #161600

#161601 - #162150. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham concerning an offer to collect ethnological specimens in China for the USNM, 1941 (#162001).

#162151 - #162550. Includes correspondence regarding the Charles Fuller Baker entomological collection, which was bequeathed to the USNM, 1924-1928. The material consists of correspondence to Baker regarding his collections and efforts by the USNM to recover specimens on loan before Baker's death (#162155 and #162156).

#162551 - #162787. Includes correspondence and other records documenting Smithsonian activities during World War II. This box contains general correspondence, 1941-1942, mostly concerning the evacuation of USNM collections, library materials, and documents from Washington, D.C. to National Park Service facilities at Luray, Virginia, and the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia (#162787).

#162787. Includes general correspondence, 1943-1945, concerning the evacuation of collections and their eventual return; information provided to war agencies by USNM staff; and the exhibition of war materials by the USNM. Also included is correspondence with the Committee on the Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1941-1944.

#162787. Includes correspondence regarding the Ethnogeographic Board, 1942-1944; the Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on Protection of Cultural Resources in War Areas, 1943-1945; the "U.S.O. Guide Service," 1942-1944; the SI War Savings Bond Drive, 1942-1944; Selective Service status of SI and USNM employees, 1942-1943; and the "Government Girl War Plane Drive," 1943. Also includes travel vouchers, expense accounts, and shipping invoices, 1942-1944; photographs of SI evacuation facilities at Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Virginia; and publications concerning air raid procedures and the protection of cultural resources during war time.

#162787. Includes publications concerning museum protection and technological mobilization.

#162787. Lists of specimens evacuated from the Division of Mollusks, USNM.

#162787. Lists of cenozoic invertebrates evacuated from USNM collections.

#162787. Includes lists of type specimens evacuated from the Division of Birds and the Department of Geology, USNM.

#162788 - #163125

#163126 - #163575

#163576 - #164150

#164151 - #164725. Includes correspondence with W. M. Hutchinson regarding a controversy concerning the authenticity of the Eli Whitney cotton gin in the USNM, 1943-1944 (#164319).

#164726 - #165375

#165376 - #166025. Includes correspondence regarding an expedition to Venezuela by Ellsworth Paine Killip under the auspices of the USNM and the Board of Economic Warfare, 1943-1944 (#165899).

#166026 - #166425. Includes correspondence regarding Sammy M. Ray's work collecting birds for the USNM while serving with the Marine Corps in the South Pacific, 1943-1946, 1949. Correspondents include M. G. Vaiden. Some of the letters concern the progress of the war in the South Pacific (#166425).

#166426 - #166925

#166926 - #167425

#167426 - #168000

#168001 - #168200. Includes correspondence concerning Smithsonian involvement at the Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936; the Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, 1936-1937; and the Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition, 1937 (#168144).

#168201 - #168460. Includes correspondence concerning investigations on bamboo in Mexico, Central and South America by Floyd A. McClure under the auspices of the Smithsonian and the National Defense Research Committee, 1943-1944 (#168460).

#168461 - #169150

#169151 - #169625

#169626 - #170225

#170226 - #170800

#170801 - #171450

#171451 - #172300

#172301 - #172975

#172976 - #173650. Includes correspondence concerning Henri Pittier's botanical field work in Venezuela under the auspices of the USNM, 1944-1946 (#173523); correspondence regarding A. Remington Kellogg's work on the Governmental Advisory Committee on Oceanography, 1946 (#173579).

#173651 - #174475. Includes correspondence concerning several archeological expeditions to southern Mexico under the auspices of the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society, 1942-1946. Correspondents include Matthew William Stirling, who led the expeditions (#173725 - #173727).

#174476 - #175200

#175201 - #175775

#175776 - #176200. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy over inadequate care given to the coin collections in the USNM, 1947-1949. Correspondents include the American Numismatic Association (#175877). Also included is correspondence concerning William F. Foshag's field work in Mexico, surveying strategic minerals, 1941-1945 (#175880).

#176201 - #176850. Includes correspondence regarding efforts by the USNM to recover botanical collections loaned to the Berlin Botanical Gardens, 1946-1949 (#176454); correspondence with Philip Hershkovitz concerning his field work in Colombia, 1946-1949 (#176569).

#176851 - #177725

#177726 - #178250

#178251 - #178725. Includes correspondence regarding a proposed survey of Chinese flora by Egbert Hamilton Walker, 1947-1948 (#178360); correspondence concerning USNM involvement at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Shell Show, 1948-1958 (#178401).

#178726 - #179050. Includes correspondence regarding collections exhibited in the USNM associated with Massachusetts, 1948-1961 (#179039); correspondence regarding SI involvement in the Port-au-Prince Bicentennial Exposition, Haiti, 1949 (#179040).

#179051 - #179650

#179651 - #180350. Includes correspondence with Finn Ronne concerning the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1946-1948 (#179983).

#180351 - #181100. Includes correspondence with David C. Graham concerning his field journals, photographs, and negatives in possession of the USNM, 1948-1949 (#181078).

#181101 - #181600

#181601 - #182125

#182126 - #182500

#182551 - #183200

#183201 - #183750

#183751 - #184275

#184276 - #184775

#184776 - #185188. Includes correspondence concerning paleontological research by Ting-Chien Yen under the auspices of the Smithsonian and the Office of Naval Research, 1949-1952 (#185081).

#185189 - #185500. Includes correspondence regarding SI involvement in the Samuel F. B. Morse Memorial Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, 1949-1950 (#185334).

#185501 - #185925

#185926 - #186425

#186426 - #186950

#186951 - #187625

#187626 - #188250

#188251 - #188675. Includes correspondence regarding a controversy between the SI and the state of Virginia over a proposed transfer of the Lee-Grant Civil War relics in the USNM, 1950-1953 (#188301).

#188676 - #189350

#189351 - #189600. Includes correspondence regarding a proposed atomic energy exhibit in the USNM, under the direction of the Museum and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-1953 (#189556); correspondence regarding the John J. Pershing bust presented to the SI, 1933-1934, 1951 (#189579); correspondence with Philip Hershkovitz regarding his field work in Colombia, 1950 (#189589).

#189601 - #189950. Includes correspondence with Mendel L. Peterson concerning his exploration of a historical shipwreck in the Florida Keys, 1950-1951 (#189654).

#189951 - #190400

#190401 - #190575. Includes requests for information regarding the Kensington Rune Stone, 1949-1954 (#190432); correspondence regarding the collection of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' paintings in the USNM, 1936-1973 (#190503).

#190576 - #191025

#191026 - #191850

#191851 - #192500

#192501 - #193000

#193001 - #193525. Includes correspondence with Frank M. Setzler concerning his investigation of pictographs in California, 1951 (#193402).

#193526 - #194050

#194051 - #194550

#194551 - #195050. Includes correspondence regarding the records management program of the USNM, 1951-1972 (#194738).

#195051 - #195525

#195526 - #196200

#196201 - #196650. Includes correspondence regarding USNM involvement in the Nineteenth Century American Painting exhibition of the American Federation of Arts, 1952-1954 (#196602).

#196651 - #197125

#197126 - #197650

#197651 - #198350

#198351 - #199100

#199101 - #199650. Includes correspondence concerning Franjo Ivanicek's physical anthropological research sponsored by the SI and the U.S. Army, 1952-1953 (#199326).

#199651 - #200175. Includes correspondence regarding the William N. Beach bequest and the Smithsonian's eventual renunciation of the bequest, 1953-1957 (#200116); correspondence concerning the proposed purchase, by the USNM, of the Mario Sanchez Roig collection of Cuban fossils, 1953-1955 (#200120).

#200176 - #200800

#200801 - #201350

#201351 - #201800. Includes a report on a survey of the birds of Coville River, Alaska, by Brina Kessel, 1953 (#201702); correspondence regarding archeological field work by Clifford Evans, Jr., in Ecuador, 1954 (#201738).

#201801 - #202375

#202376 - #203100

#203101 - #203475. Includes correspondence regarding Thomas Dale Stewart's work on the identification of skeletal remains in Japan, under the auspices of the U.S. Army, 1953-1955 (#203176).

#203476 - #203950. Includes correspondence with James Townsend Russell concerning the bequest of his anthropological collections to the USNM, 1954-1955, 1962 (#203778).

#203951 - #204075. Includes reports on skeletal material identified by the Division of Physical Anthropology for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1950-1977 (#204047).

#204076 - #204525. Includes correspondence regarding research on the USNM collection of scolytid and scarabaeid beetles by Jozo J. Murayama, 1955-1956 (#204301).

#204526 - #205050

#205051 - #205475

#205476 - #206000

#206001 - #206700. Includes correspondence regarding the Alfred H. Caspary estate, 1955-1958 (#206333); correspondence concerning a field trip to Peru by Marshall T. Newman to study the human biology of the Indians of Callejon de Huaylas, 1955-1957 (#206616).

#206701 - #207400. Includes correspondence and other records regarding A. Remington Kellog's work as delegate to the International Whaling Commission meetings, 1949-1966 (#206978).

#207401 - #207850. Includes correspondence with Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr., regarding his field work in Colombia, 1955 (#207578).

#207851 - #208525. Includes correspondence regarding Conrad Vernon Morton's trip to study European herbaria, 1954 (#208495); correspondence regarding the opening of the Hall of Health, USNM, 1955-1958 (#208517).

#208526 - #209050

#209051 - #209475. Includes correspondence between Phineas T. Barnum and Smithsonian and USNM officials (primarily Spencer F. Baird and William Temple Hornaday), 1882-1891. The correspondence concerns the sending of dead animals from Barnum's show to the USNM; the donation of specimens to Barnum's Museum at Tufts University by the USNM; and Barnum's unrealized plans to send the skeleton of "Jumbo" to the National Museum. Also included is correspondence between A. Remington Kellogg and John R. Betts concerning the Barnum letters, 1956 (#209237).

#209476 - #209850

#209851 - #210450

#210451 - #211000

#211001 - #211450. Includes correspondence between Washington A. Roebling and William F. Foshag concerning Roebling's mineral collections, 1924-1926 (#211184).

#211451 - #211800. Includes correspondence regarding archeological field work in Ecuador by Clifford Evans, Jr., and Betty T. Meggers, 1956-1958 (#211473).

#211801 - #212300

#212301 - #212600

#212601 - #213200

#213201 - #213675. Includes correspondence concerning SI participation in the Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival of 1957, 1956-1964 (#213344).

#213676 - #214100

#214101 - #214625. Includes correspondence concerning a controversy between the USNM and Vernon Sennock Lyonesse-Liqncouft Pate over Pate's failure to return a collection of insects loaned to him, 1929-1960 (#214580).

#214626 - #215475

#215476 - #215800

#215801 - #216275. Includes correspondence with James Paul Chapin regarding his field work collecting birds in Africa, 1957 (#215818).

#216276 - #216700

#216701 - #216900

#216901 - #217325. Includes correspondence regarding a Smithsonian archeological expedition to Iraq under the leadership of Ralph S. Solecki, 1954-1959 (#217033).

#217326 - #217850

#217851 - #218600

#218601 - #219325

#219326 - #220000. Includes correspondence concerning the possible acquisition by the USNM of the Harvey Harlow Nininger Meteorite Collection, 1958-1961 (#219370).

#220001 - #220500

#220501 - #221300

#221301 - #222025

#222026 - #222500. Includes correspondence with Walt Disney concerning the exhibition "The Art of Animation," which appeared at the National Museum of Natural History, 1958-1959 (#222241).

#222501 - #223000. Includes reports on official travel by museum staff, 1958-1964 (#222753).

#223001 - #223700

#223701 - #224225

#224226 - #224825

#224826 - #225500. Includes miscellaneous correspondence regarding the Hope Diamond, 1958-1964 (#225042).

#225501 - #226200

#226201 - #226850

#226851 - #227325

#227326 - #227900

#227901 - #228216