Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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Manuscript Division
George F. Becker Papers
Identifier: MSS12229
Abstract
Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, notebooks, notes, memoranda, maps, charts, tables, landscape sketches, and printed matter primarily relating to Becker's service at the United States Geological Survey, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as president of the Geological Society of America.
Dates
1814-1928; Majority of material found within 1870-1919
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Manuscript Division
W J McGee Papers
Identifier: MSS32128
Abstract
Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana...
Dates
1880-1916; Majority of material found within ( 1885-1905)
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Manuscript Division
George P. Merrill Correspondence and Autographs
Identifier: mm82032714
Abstract
Geologist. Autographs and letters from various scientists, especially geologists. Includes letters addressed to James Hall, F. V. Hayden, and others. Collected by Merrill while he was writing First One Hundred Years of American Geology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924).
Dates
1803-1926