Results for "Belfast Naturalists' Field Club"
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Robert Kennicott
- Date: December 3, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9667,size=250,left]Robert Kennicott, born on November 13, 1835, was an original member and co-creator of the Megatherium Club and made quite a wave during his lifetime. He was considered a great naturalist, collecting specimens from his expeditions as well as local areas. Kennicott began his life in New Orleans on November 13, 1835, but his family
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Folks at Home: February 17, 1863
- Date: December 4, 2017
- Description: “Folks at Home: February 17, 1863” was sent to the Smithsonian Institution Archives by The Grove National Historic Landmark. In this letter, Robert Kennicott, co-founder of the Megatherium Club, wrote about his life at the Smithsonian Castle and described his relationship to the club’s members. This letter acts as a great segue into further research of the Megatherium Club and
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Fielding Bradford Meek
- Date: December 13, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391599,size=250,left] “[T]he paleontologist is a queer character,” Robert Kennicott notes in his letter “Folks at Home”. “Indeed he [Meek] is very excellent and Honorable gentleman with fine feelings and extremely modest though he is now one of our best Paleontologists.”Meek was born on December 10, 1817 in Madison, Indiana, along with a brother and
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Love Interests
- Date: December 5, 2017
- Description: During the time of the Megatherium Club, there were rumors among neighbors and friends that some of the members had special relationships with women visiting the Castle. Some indication of this occurring comes from Pamela M. Learn about some love interests of the Megatherium Club's members!
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
- Date: November 27, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391596,size=250,left]Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, a geologist and original Megatheria, was an eccentric club member, according to Robert Kennicott. Hayden’s early life began in Westfield, Massachusetts on September 7, 1828. Hayden’s parents, Asa Hayden and Melinda Hawley, were a somewhat troubled pair. His father, an alcoholic, passed away when Hayden
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Theodore Nicholas Gill
- Date: December 13, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391595,size=300,left]Theodore Nicholas Gill, “Ichthyobranchius”, was many things: an ichthyologist, law student, professor of zoology, Senior Assistant Librarian of Congress, member of the Megatherium Club, and as Robert Kennicott described him “about the oddest fish I’ve come across.” His contributions to science were remarkable, producing more than
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Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
- Date: 1864 1942
Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Michigan and Minnesota, March 23-April 13, 1907
- Date: 1907 19070323 19070413
- Creator: Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
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SIA RU007294, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Records, 1893-1980 and undated
- Date: 1893 1893-1980 1893-1980 and undated
- Creator: Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 02-183, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Records, 1900, 1947-1997
- Date: 1947 1947-1997 1900, 1947-1997
- Creator: Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU007176, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Field Reports, 1860-1961
- Date: 1860 1860-1961
- Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Portrait of Robert Kennicott (1835-1866)
- Date: 1866 Before 1866
- Creator: Unknown
