In 1936 Coville began working on a revision of his Botany of the Death Valley Expedition, published in 1893. This series contains his notes for the revision, which
he was working on at the time of his death.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7272, Frederick Vernon Coville Papers
Folder 18 Coville, Frederick Vernon, 1887-1892. Includes personal feelings and his official treatment during his expedition to Death Valley; also Clinton Hart Merriam's replies to his actions; and journal type material in his correspondence regarding t...
Container:
Box 4 of 21
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 220, United States National Museum. Division of Plants, Correspondence
JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS OF EDWARD WILLIAM NELSON, 1877-1930 AND UNDATED
Type:
Archival materials
Note:
This series consists of journals and notebooks documenting field work and official travel of Edward William Nelson. Especially well documented is his ethnological
and natural history field work in Alaska, 1877-1881; his participation on the Corwin Expedition, 1881; and his field explorations of Mexico with Edward Alphonso Goldman,
1892-1902. The journals from his Mexico work, 1903-1906, are missing. The Alaska and Mexico journals offer a narrative of day-to-day activities and include information on
specimens collected; observations on native peoples and their folklore, legends, religion, vocabulary, and other aspects of their culture; sketches of people, villages, fauna,
and natural phenomena; and notes on the fauna, flora, and physiography of regions explored. There are typescript copies of the Mexico journals, 1892-1895.
Also included are journals and notebooks kept by Nelson on many official trips taken for the Bureau of Biological Survey; a journal from the Death Valley Expedition, 1890-1891;
and miscellaneous notebooks and address books.
Arranged (mostly) alphabetically.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7364, Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman Collection
The administration of the United States National Museum required curators to submit regular reports on the activities of the departments, divisions, and sections. Prior
to about 1900 these reports were often made monthly and semiannually as well as annually. The reports were traditionally submitted to the Director of the National Museum to
be used in preparing the published Annual Report of the United States National Museum. The individual reports, however, were not reproduced in their entirety in the published
Annual Report and generally contain more information than is to be found in the published version.
Reports were stored by the Office of Correspondence and Reports (later known as the Office of Correspondence and Documents), and then by the Office of the Registrar.
Includes reports submitted to the Director of the United States National Museum by curators and administrators.
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