Includes letters from family members; personnel decisions; letters about his field work; notes for a lecture on disease and tuberculosis among the American Indians; an article titled "Scarification" that may be by Hrdlička; letters of introduction for Hrdlička's field work from 1901 to 1903; the Civil Service examination of Hrdlička, George Grant MacCrudy, and W.C. Farabee in an envelope dated January 1903 that led to Hrdlička coming to the National Museum; a letter from S.P. Langley designating Hrdlička as assistant curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology, dated April 17, 1903; minutes of the first meeting of the Committee of the Association of American Anatomists, September 24, 1905; Hrdlička's promotion to curator in the letter from Charles Walcott dated March 28, 1910; an itinerary of Hrdlička's travels and accounts of his accomplishments on the trip to Russia, Siberia, and Mongolia in the October 19, 1912, letter to W.H. Holmes; papers titled "Plea for the Foundation of an American Journal of Physical Anthropology" and "Reasons for the Establishment of a Journal of Physical Anthropology" dated 1918; Dr. Mortissen's account of his physical examination of Hrdlička, with electrocardiograms, in Mortissen's letter of October 13, 1919; the letter of October 13, 1926, transferring the American Journal of Physical Anthropology to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology; the letter of December 23, 1932, to C.G. Abbot establishing a trust fund; Hrdlička's expression of concern for the events in Czechoslovakia in the letter of March 17, 1938, to President Roosevelt; Lowell Thomas's letter of March 25, 1938, concerning Hrdlička's correction of an error by Thomas; Hrdlička's expression of concern over events in Czechoslovakia in the letters to and from Secretary of State Cordell Hull, dated March 23 and 25, 1938, and October 7 and 10, 1939; the letter of September 15, 1938, to Franklin D. Roosevelt transmitting a copy of Hrdlička's radio talk on Czechoslovakia (the talk is not with the letter) and Roosevelt's letter of September 17, 1938, thanking Hrdlička for the copy; Hrdlička's letter to Winston Churchill dated Ocober 9, 1939, asking him not to forget Czechoslvakia; the letter from Hrdlička to Alexander Wetmore dated January 15, 1940, about his pending retirement; Franklin D. Roosevelt's letters of thanks dated June 14, 1940, and June 3, 1941; Hrdlička's suggested five steps in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor in the letter of December 8, 1941, to Roosevelt; Hrdlička's paper "War and Civilization," included with the letter of May 26, 1941, to Cordell Hull, which Hull thanked him for in the letter of June 2, 1941; Hrdlička's donation of his library to the Division of Physical Anthropology in the letter of April 1, 1942; Hrdlička's war effort suggestions in the document of April 4, 1942; and the certificate that granted Hrdlička's retirement dated April 27, 1942.
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Collection Citation:
Aleš Hrdlička papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The Repatriation Office, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, provided funds for the arrangement and description of the Aleš Hrdlička papers
