Paleontology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jeffries Wyman papers
Collection Identifier: H MS c12Overview:
The Jeffries Wyman papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk) are the product of Wyman's research, teaching, professional, and publishing activities throughout his career as a naturalist and scientific researcher with positions as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; curator of what is now the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston; and as a professor of anatomy and...
Farish Alston Jenkins, Jr. Papers, ca. 1967-2013
Collection Identifier: MCZ-ARC-284Scope and Contents:
This collection documents Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.’s field and laboratory research and teaching career as a vertebrate paleontologist and as a faculty member at Harvard University. It includes some of Jenkin’s important research, such as his work with respiratory physiology, bird flight, and vertebrate evolution. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1970s to the 1990s.The course material in this collection contains handouts, drafts, lecture material, sketches, and notes. The...
Bernhard Kummel Papers, ca. 1941-1977
Collection Identifier: MCZ-ARC-234Scope and Contents:
Papers of Harvard geology professor and Museum of Comparative Zoology Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Bernhard Kummel.The bulk of the collection consists of materials related to Kummel's publications. These are primarily photographs of fossil sites and specimens, maps, charts and diagrams. Some of them, mounted on photomount boards, were to be used as plates in Kummel's publications. Others were loose, in folders and envelopes of various sizes, or scattered in the boxes. ...