Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-062
National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity Program
Correspondence, 1971-1999
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that document the curatorial, research, and administrative activities of Don E. Wilson, Director, Biodiversity Program (1990-2000). Records created prior to 1990 were accumulated by and transferred with Wilson when he assumed the Directorship in 1990. Most of the early records document his activities while working as a mammalogist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bird and Mammal Laboratories located in the National Museum of Natural History. He specialized in the study of bats.
Materials include incoming correspondence (majority of the collection) and a small portion of outgoing chronological files.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). $ bDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Division of Mammals
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
- Wilson, Don E.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-062, National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity Program, Correspondence