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Paleontology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on both general and zoological paleontology.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Schuchert papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 435
Abstract: 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

Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 491
Abstract:

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

George Reber Wieland papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 750
Abstract:

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