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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...

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Kalbfleisch 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...

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Department 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...

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Biographical 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...

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John 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...

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Maybe 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...

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The 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...

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Lawrence 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...

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The 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...

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The 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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