Paleontologists
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Jean André DeLuc papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 179
Overview:
Correspondence, lecture notes, and scientific writings of DeLuc and of his nephew, Jean Andreé DeLuc (1763-1847), relating to his experiments in electricity, to lectures given in Geneva by the younger DeLuc, and to outstanding scientists of the period. Also notebooks of several geological expeditions in England, Wales, Belgium, Holland, Westphalia, and the Jura mountains
(1778-1806). Correspondents of the elder DeLuc include Sir Joseph Banks, Varenne de Boest, Queen Charlotte and other members...
Dates:
1746-1847
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Jean André DeLuc papers
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
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
George Reber Wieland papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 750
Overview:
The papers include professional and family correspondence, periodicals and pamphlets, books annotated by George Reber Wieland and scientific and personal photographs. The professional correspondence deals with his scientific expeditions and with negotiations on his proposed gift to the United States of a tract of land in South Dakota known as the "Fossil Cycad National Monument."
Dates:
1889-1953
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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George Reber Wieland papers