Smithsonian Institution
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Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Letterbook, 1885-01-22-1888-04-05
File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924079229690], Folder: 10
Dates:
1885-01-22-1888-04-05
Letterbook, 1888-04-12-1892-07-23
File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924079229690], Folder: 11
Dates:
1888-04-12-1892-07-23
Natural History, 1864
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a list
Dates:
1864
Natural History, 1865
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and an illustration
Dates:
1865
Natural History, 1869-01-1870-06
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a memorandum
Dates:
1869-01-1870-06
Natural History, 1879-1881
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a resolution
Dates:
1879-1881
Natural History Correspondence, 1866
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
Dates:
1866
Natural History Correspondence, 1870-07-1871-07
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065219887], Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
Dates:
1870-07-1871-07
Ornithology manuscripts
Collection — Manuscript box 66 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113569226]
Identifier: 4748
Scope and content
Manuscript journal titled Memoranda ornithologica, with entries dated from 1850-1881, documenting bird sightings, bird collecting, and bird people in and about Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-1800s. It cites conversations with Henry David Thoreau while birding along the Concord River, and includes many notes on bird observations and birds collected in eastern Massachusetts, including passenger pigeons. With the journal are two letters. One is from physician and ornithologist Elliott Coues,...
Dates:
1850-1886.
Wilbur Wright correspondence
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113564169]
Identifier: 4700-0018
Scope and content
Letter from Wilbur Wright to the Smithsonian Institution asking for works published by the Smithsonian and others on mechanical flight, May 30, 1899; with a response by the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian promising a list of works and several pamphlets on the subject, June 1899.
Dates:
1899.
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- Aeronautics -- United States -- History. 1
- Air pilots -- Biography 1
- Birds -- Massachusetts. 1
- Field notes 1
- Guatemala 1
- Mexico. 1
- New York state 1
- Ornithologists -- Massachusetts. 1
- Panama Canal 1
- Passenger pigeon. 1
- Resuscitation. 1
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