Portrait of Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916)

ID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27D_073]

Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Form/Genre: Photographs

Date: 1900

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27D, Image No. SIA_000095_B27D_073

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Summary

Ornithologist, research associate, and honorary associate in zoology with the United States National Museum (USNM), was one of three naturalists from USNM chosen to go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition with Theodore Roosevelt to Africa in 1909.

Subject

Mearns, Edgar Alexander 1856-1916

Notes

  • USNM No. 21452
  • Army surgeon, ornithologist, naturalist; gathered materials in the Southwest, the Philippines, and Africa for the use of specialists in systematic zoology and botany; member of Roosevelt African Expedition.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27D, Image No. SIA_000095_B27D_073

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1900
  • Circa 1900s

Restrictions & Rights

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  • No Copyright - United States

Topic

  • Portraits
  • Scientists

Form/Genre

Photographs

Local number

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27D_073]

Physical description

6 x 4;

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