0.75 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 half document box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Date:
1894-1910 and undated
Descriptive Entry:
This collection consists of accession catalogs maintained by the Department of Geology, 1900-1910, and by the Division of Mineralogy of the Department of Geology (prior
to 1897, the Department of Minerals), 1894-1910; catalogs, specimen lists, and an alphabetic index of the Frederick A. Canfield Mineral Collection which was bequeathed to
the United States National Museum in 1926; and outgoing correspondence concerning the Petrographic Reference Collection of the Department of Geology, 1896-1906.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7291, United States National Museum, Collected Catalogs, Correspondence, and Specimen Lists on Mineral Sciences