This catalog consists of a list of the contents of Richmond's personal library. The entries document the title, author, place and year of publication of over 200 publications
and auction catalogs in German, Italian, French, Spanish, Latin, and English on various natural history topics. The dates of publication range from 1657 to 1906, and Richmond
has noted some of the entries as rare acquisitions. The entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, and occasionally the purchase price is included. The
catalog also includes the disposition of most entries to one of four repositories: the United States National Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the
Library of Congress, and the California Academy of Sciences. The date of transfer is included on approximately half of the entries, and these range from 1900-1926. Two entries
are noted as having been exchanged for other publications with contemporaries. Also included are separate lists of the donations to the USNM between 1906 and 1908 in five
installments.
Historical Note:
Charles Wallace Richmond (1868-1932) was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1881 where he became a page at the House of Representatives.
In 1888, he joined a United States Geological Survey expedition to Montana to pursue his ornithological interests, and later joined the staff of the United States Department
of Agriculture as an ornithological clerk in the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy. After a collecting trip to Nicaragua, Richmond returned to Washington and
became a night watchman at the United States National Museum (USNM). He was soon promoted to the position of Aid and then Assistant in the Section of Birds. In 1894, Richmond
was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds, and in 1918 he became Associate Curator of this division. In 1929, he was appointed Curator but was reappointed Associate Curator
at his own suggestion to allow for the appointment of Herbert Friedmann as Curator in the same year.
Richmond's scientific work dealt largely with problems of ornithological nomenclature in which he was recognized as an international authority. One of Richmond's greatest
contributions to the field was his card catalog of generic and specific names of birds which was consulted by ornithologists all over the world.
Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri cum aeneis figuris ; [Historiae naturalis de serpentibus libri II ; Historiae naturalis de insectis libri III ; Historiae naturalis de exanguibus aquaticis libri IV ; Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V ; Historiae naturalis de avibus libri VI] Johannes Jonstonus, Medicinae Doctor, concinnavit
C. Dumeril's, Doctors und Professors an der medicinischen Schule zu Paris, Analytische Zoologie aus dem Französischen, mit Zusätzen von L.F. Froriep, Professor zu Halle
Vergleichende Uebersicht des Linneischen und einiger neuern zoologischen Systeme von J.L.C. Gravenhorst ; nebst dem eingeschalteten Verzeichnisse der zoologischen Sammlung des Verfassers und den Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, die in derselben vorhanden sind
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Gravenhorst, Johann Ludwig Christian 1777-1857 Search this
Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... Vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
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Vollständigen Natursystems
Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs
Des Herrn Geoffroy D. und Prof. der Arzney Wissenschaft in Paris Kurze Abhandlung von den Conchylien, welche um Paris sowohl auf dem Lande, als in süssen Wassern gefunden werden aus dem Französischen übersezt und mit einigen erläuternden Zusätzen vermehrt durch Fried. Heinr. Wilh. Martini
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Geoffroÿ Abhandlung von den Conchÿlien
Kurze Abhandlung von den Conchylien, welche um Paris sowohl auf dem Lande, als in süssen Wassern gefunden werden
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