Birds
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ornithology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0054
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of catalogs, information about special collections within our holdings, lists of birds offered for sale, donated, exchanged or discarded, various working notes of the curators, personnel of the department,
and general notes. The persons most concerned in this material are John Cassin, Elliott Coues, William A. Kite, Spencer Trotter, Mr. Hill and Wharton Huber, with Witmer Stone adding the later personal touches to the material describing our bird collection. Not only...
Dates:
1863-2010
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997
VIREO Department papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1000
Scope and Contents
The VIREO Department papers document the early history of the VIREO Department from its inception in 1979. This collection contains accession books, planning documents, reports, agreements, inventories, procedures, grant proposals, job applications, ledgers, royalty documents, correspondence, and negatives.
Dates:
1956 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1996