National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology Search this
Extent:
9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Picture postcards
Clippings
Field notes
Maps
Sketches
Black-and-white photographs
Color photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Color transparencies
Date:
1937-2005
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of files created and maintained by Frederick M. Bayer, Zoologist Emeritus. Bayer came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1947 as a research zoologist
specializing in taxonomy, zoogeography, and mineralogy of Octocorallia (soft corals). These materials consist of correspondence, subject files, field notes, photographs, negatives,
and glass slides.
#21231 - #22079. Includes correspondence regarding the exchange of ferns between the USNM and Eduard Rosenstock of Gotha, Germany, 1908 (#21691); correspondence with Raymond Carroll Osburn of Columbia University regarding his work on North American bry...
Descriptions of the Alcyonaria collected by the U.S. bureau of fisheries steamer Albatross in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands in 1902. By Charles C. Nutting
The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mrs. Charles Hedley, of the Australian museum, Sydney, N. S. W. Pub. by order of the trustees. R. Etheridge, junr., J. P., curator
Zoogeographical investigation of certain fjords in southern Greenland, with special reference to Crustacea, Pycnogonida and Echinodermata including a list of Alcyonaria and Pisces, by K. Stephensen
