John Treadwell Nichols
This spring, I’m creating a finding aid on the journals, manuscripts, and other documents in the John Treadwell Nichols’ Collection here at the Museum. A member of the staff at the American Museum of...
View ArticleKalbfleisch Research Station
The Kalbfleisch Research Station was located on Long Island in Huntington, and it came into being after August Kalbfleisch willed her estate to the Museum. The hundred acre property was used primarily...
View ArticleDepartment of Ichthyology and Herpetology: Nichols and Dickerson
I’ve begun drafting a historical note on the establishment on the Department of Ichthyology (fish studies) to provide more context to the John Treadwell Nichols’ personal collection. Although John...
View ArticleBiographical Materials: John Treadwell Nichols
Today I spent some time looking into the box marked Biographical Materials. This is only one of the eighteen boxes of the John Treadwell Nichols’ collection that I’ve been cataloguing this spring. The...
View ArticleJohn Treadwell Nichols: The End
This is my last blog post on the John Treadwell Nichols’ collection, and I’m hoping to touch hearts with it. Fortunately, I saved the especially personal and sentimental side of Nichols’ records for...
View ArticleMaybe someday….
Greetings. Today marks the end of my journey with the Hayden Planetarium Interplanetary Reservations collection. It has been a long and tedious journey but the mission has been accomplished...
View ArticleThe George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence Collection
Hello everyone! After working through the spring semester with Claire and Becca in Invertebrate Paleontology, I’m two weeks into making my way through the George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence...
View ArticleLawrence and His Friends: the Dual Nature of Ornithologists
The George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence Collection When I first began sorting through the hundreds of letters between Lawrence and his friends and colleagues in this collection, I expected the...
View ArticleThe AMNH Library Receives a Major Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is pleased to announce that it was awarded $320,400 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the...
View ArticleThe Living Fossil – Story of the Coelacanth
Coelacanth mosaic at 81st Street subway platform When walking to the exit in the 81st St. – Museum of Natural History subway station, among the creatures on the walls welcoming visitors to the museum...
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