Peabody Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 552
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the operations of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. Topics include faculty and personnel, environmental issues, national biological stations and institutions, and naval reports and research.
Dates:
1927-1965
Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, photographs
Collection
Call Number: RU 626
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale, which forms the west wing of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Dates:
1958-1959
Bosch Mineral Collection, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 478
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, gift account records, and news releases documenting the development of the Bosch Mineral Collection in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
Dates:
1950-1966
Ross Granville Harrison papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 263
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, administrative and teaching files, and research materials which document the personal life and professional career of Ross Granville Harrison. Correspondence with many academic, medical, and scientific figures is included, as are the records relating to Yale University's Department of Zoology (1920-1938) and Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1919-1938). Drafts of writings, lectures and related visual materials, research files, and photographs are also arranged...
Dates:
1820-1975, bulk 1889-1959
Othniel Charles Marsh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 343
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, school notes, and other papers of O.C. Marsh, scientist and first professor of paleontology at Yale and in the United States. Of special interest is the rather extensive correspondence Marsh carried on with many prominent scientists of his time; included are letters from Charles Darwin, Leonard and Thomas Huxley, Simon Newcomb, and Benjamin Silliman Sr. and Jr. Also included are materials relating to Marsh's education at Andover, Yale,...
Dates:
1817-1899
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Othniel Charles Marsh papers
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, botanical teaching slides
Collection
Call Number: RU 93
Overview:
The materials consist of lantern slides maintained by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University documenting North American vegetation and habitats.
Dates:
circa 1900-1940
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, photographs of collections
Collection
Call Number: RU 863
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs documenting collections in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Dates:
circa 1930-1969
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 471
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, reports, deeds of gifts, inventories, statements, and publications documenting the activities and operations of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
Dates:
1866-2019
Leonard Jimmie Savage papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 695
Overview:
The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, writings, notes, teaching materials, subject files, audio tapes and other papers of Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971), mathematician, statistician, author, teacher, and professor at Yale from 1964-1971. The papers relate primarily to Savage's work in the field of statistics, especially Bayesian statistics, and includes extensive correspondence with many of his professional colleagues from around the world. Also included is a large...
Dates:
1935-1998
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Leonard Jimmie Savage papers
Charles Schuchert papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 435
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, diary, a manuscript autobiography, photographs and memorabilia. The major part of the papers is made up of Schuchert's professional correspondence while curator of the geological collections at the Peabody Museum at Yale (1904-1923). Subsequent correspondence is related to his work in the field of paleontology. Also in the papers is the incoming correspondence of Charles Emerson Beecher, Schuchert's predecessor at the Peabody Museum....
Dates:
1859-1943, bulk 1884-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Charles Schuchert papers
Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 491
Overview:
Correspondence, reports, manuscripts and research material relating to Thorpe's geological surveys in Utah, to his work on vertebrate paleontology, to his directorship of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and to his work for the H. Emerson Tuttle Memorial Fund.
Dates:
1913-1952