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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Charles Bendire papers, 1874-1919 (bulk 1884-1896)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bendire, Charles</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1836-1897</namePart>
    <role>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>1200</extent>
    <extent>6</extent>
    <extent>2.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Chiefly letters from other ornithologists and naturalists relating to Bendire's activities as honorary curator of the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Correspondents include Chester Barlow, Theodore D.A. Cockerell, George Bird Grinnell, Walter Adams Johnson, Edward Avery McIlhenny, C. Hart Merriam, Otho C. Poling, William S. Ralph, Henry K. Taylor, and Ernest Seton Thompson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Ornithologist and U.S. Army officer.  Full name: Charles Emil Bendire.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010158">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010158</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barlow, Chester</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Dru Alison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grinnell, George Bird</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1938</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Walter Adams</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McIlhenny, Edward Avery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1942</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Poling, Otho C</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ralph, William S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seton, Ernest Thompson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taylor, Henry K</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ornithology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Ornithologists</occupation>
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