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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

Letterbook, 1888-04-12-1892-07-23

 File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924079229690], Folder: 11

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

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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Archival Object 28
Collection 2
 
Subject
Aeronautics -- United States -- History. 1
Air pilots -- Biography 1
Birds -- Massachusetts. 1
Field notes 1
Guatemala 1