File:C. Hart Merriam papers - including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942) (IA chartmerriampape036merr).pdf

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Go to page
next page →
next page →
next page →

Original file ‎(2,291 × 2,966 pixels, file size: 51.17 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 631 pages)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
Muir, John, 1838-1914. crp
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. crp
Online Archive of California
Title
C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942)
Volume Incoming Letters, 1871-1942
Description
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection
Correspondence, letterpress copybooks, manuscripts, notes, clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, scrapbooks, notebooks, certificates and financial papers documenting this naturalist's long and varied career. The papers cover a wide range of topics including natural history, zoology, ornithology, geography, geographic distribution, botany and wildlife conservation. The extensive correspondence files include prominent individuals from many of the fields noted above, including Merriam's sister Florence Bailey, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Vernon Bailey, to name just a few. The papers document Dr. Merriam's long association with the United States Biological Survey and other surveys beginning with the Hayden Survey of the Rocky Mountain West in 1872 through the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Also included are papers on his involvement, beginning in 1891, in the Bering Sea controversy over seal hunting. Among the subject files are a large group of files on bears of North America and files on geographical distribution and the development of Dr. Merriam's Life Zone Theory
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.023)
Stereoviews of Yellowstone, Utah, and the Snake River transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.078--STER)
Stereoviews from the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.081--STER)
Stereoviews of Indians and the Colorado River from the J.W. Powell survey transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.082--STER)
Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite views transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.103--PIC)
Related collections: C. Hart Merriam papers (BANC MSS 80/18 c); C. Hart Merriam collection of Native American photographs (BANC PIC 1978.008--PIC) ; Florence Merriam Bailey papers (BANC MSS 79/139 c and BANC MSS 82/46 z)
Lantern slides transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1979.086)
C. Hart Merriam papers, including personal journals from 1873-1938;
Naturalist and founder of the U.S. Biological Survey (1885-1910). Studied California Indians, recording their languages (ca. 1898-1938)
Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet

Subjects: United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation
Language English
Publication date 1798
publication_date QS:P577,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bancroft_library; microfilm; americana; additional_collections
Accession number
chartmerriampape036merr
Notes Film/Fiche is presented as originally captured.
Authority file  OCLC: 1041786135
Source
Internet Archive identifier: chartmerriampape036merr
https://archive.org/download/chartmerriampape036merr/chartmerriampape036merr.pdf
  • IA digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Licensing[edit]

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:42, 25 January 2021Thumbnail for version as of 11:42, 25 January 20212,291 × 2,966, 631 pages (51.17 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)IA Query "collection:(additional_collections) date:[1000 TO 1869] " chartmerriampape036merr Category:Old books in Internet Archive additional collections (COM:IA books#query) (1798 #56550)

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:C._Hart_Merriam_papers_-_including_correspondence,_papers_relating_to_career_with_the_United_States_Biological_Survey,_1798-1972_(bulk_1871-1942)_(IA_chartmerriampape036merr).pdf&oldid=840677060"