A nomenclature of colors for naturalists and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists by Robert Ridgway ; with ten colored plates and seven plates of outline illustrations
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Also includes a photostat copy 2 pages, an English translation 1 page, and miscellaneous correspondence 3 pages. Miscellaneous correspondence: Frederick W. Hodge to Truman Michelson, October 4, 1915, Autograph note; Michelson to Hodge, November 2, 1915, Autograph note signed; Hodge to Francis LaFlesche, November 2, 1915 Autograph note signed; LaFlesche to Hodge, February 11, 1916, Typescript letter signed, enclosing 1 page free English translation of Take-Way-from-Crow's letter made by Joseph Black Spotted Horse and Louis Bordeaux.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1748
Local Note:
Autograph letter signed
Topic:
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Includes map of Rio Verde area showing sites; manuscript, "A Description of the 5-story Cliff-dwelling on Beaver Creek (October 27th, 1886)"; notes apparently related to the manuscript; notebook with a few pages of notes and drawings, mostly regarding Montezumaʹs Castle; fragments of unidentified material.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7064
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Beaver Creek (Yavapai County, Ariz.) -- Archeology Search this
Genre/Form:
Maps
Notes
Drawings
Articles
Citation:
Manuscript 7064, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
American Museum of Natural History -- Photographs Search this
Extent:
1 Volume
64 Pages
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Volumes
Pages
Place:
Arizona -- Archeology
Date:
ca. 1890
Scope and Contents:
The bound volume is a catalog of archeological and ethnological collections made on Clear Creek, Beaver Creek, Verde River, Fossil Creek, Oak Creek, and Salt River in Arizona. Included are Mearns's numbers, names, dimensions, and other descriptivive material, locations, and dates of findings (between 1884-1887). There is also a summary list of stone tools sent to the American Museum of Natural History. A few references to photographs (a note indicates what had been sent to the museum) are incomplete.
There are also a few related notes, pages from a diary, ground plans of ruins on the Middle Verde, an inventory of items taken from Montezuma's Castle, a letter from Cosmos Mindeleff concerning plans for Mearns to plot locations of ruins on a USGS quadrant map, notes concerning ruins on the San Juan River by Stewart Daniels, notes on the Acequia Ruin in Arizona, and a note on Mearns's photograps and his photography.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7438
Citation:
Manuscript 7438, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Botany for beginners an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies by Mrs. Phelps
Folder 29 Mearns, Edgar Alexander (1856-1916). Includes a series of portraits, 1879-1909; a list of some of his publications on mammals; his article "Our City Birds;" obituaries; and biographical sketches, 1916-1940, and undated.
Collection Creator::
National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals Search this
Container:
Box 10 of 17
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7320, National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals, Biographical File
This accession consists of field notes of Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916), an army surgeon and field naturalist. These materials are from his tours of duty in the
Philippines and are heavily focused on birds.
This collection documents Mearns' career as a field naturalist and expedition member and consists of correspondence, 1898-1909, including photocopies of letters written
by Mearns while he served on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909; biographical material on Mearns and his family; field notes, research notes, specimen lists,
photographs, and related materials concerning Mearns' field work, 1871-1911; and correspondence, photographs, drawings, and research data regarding Mearns' work on the United
States-Mexican International Boundary Survey, circa 1891-1907. This finding aid also describes Mearns' papers housed in the Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History
(see series 6, boxes 8-27).
Historical Note:
Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916) was an army surgeon and field naturalist. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna around
his home in Highland Falls, New York. Mearns was educated at Donald Highland Institute, Highland Falls, and in 1881 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York. In 1883, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the Army and assigned to duty at Fort Verde, Arizona. He was transferred to Fort Snelling,
Minnesota, in 1888. In 1891, Mearns was assigned to serve as medical officer with the United States-Mexican International Boundary Survey. From 1892 to 1894, Mearns explored
the boundary line from El Paso, Texas, to San Clemente Island and collected 30,000 specimens of flora and fauna which were deposited in the United States National Museum (USNM).
From 1894 to 1903, Mearns continued his natural history investigations while stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia; Fort Clark, Texas; Fort Adams, Rhode Island; and Fort Yellowstone.
He also conducted field research in the Catskill Mountains and Florida during this period. Between 1903 and 1907, Mearns served two separate tours of duty in the Philippine
Islands. While in the Philippines he made natural history collections and participated in expeditions to the three highest mountains in the islands, Mount Apo, Grand Malindang,
and Mount Halcon. After returning to the United States, Mearns served at Fort Totten, New York, until his retirement from the Army on January 1, 1909. Later in that year,
he was invited by Theodore Roosevelt to accompany the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition as naturalist. From 1909 to 1910, Mearns explored parts of British East Africa
from Mount Kenia to the White Nile. Mearns' last expedition was in 1911, when he served as a naturalist with the Childs Frick Expedition to Africa.
Mearns' primary biological interests were ornithology and mammalogy. He was a founding member of the American Ornithologists Union and in 1909 was appointed honorary associate
in zoology of the USNM.
6. An Ornithological Journal and Register, Edgar A. Mearns, begun October 6, 1874. Includes material on mammals of the Hudson Highlands and an index to all of the notes on birds; a list of specimens by label number and a chronological list of birds see...
7. Collecting List of Edgar A. Mearns. This "is a complete catalogue of all the Birds collected by me up to date, excepting only my original collection of mounted specimens, and unlabeled skins collected for exchange with the dealers," Edgar A. Mearns,...
1. Description of Nests and Eggs collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Entries from 1876-1891. Includes material collected in New York, Arizona, and Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
3. "Notes on Some of the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon, Collected by Lieutenant Willis Wittich, 21st Infantry, U.S.A., With Annotations and Additions by 'The Collector'." This manuscript was compiled from notes and collections given to Mearns by Wittic...
4. "On This Spring's Migration (1878) in the Hudson Highlands." This manuscript pertains to the migration of birds to the Hudson Highlands and some of the rarer birds that were seen in the Highlands in 1878. Incomplete.