TY  - GEN
AU  - Mearns,Edgar Alexander
TI  - Edgar Alexander Mearns papers,
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Mearns family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Smithsonian African Expedition
KW  - (1909)
KW  - Botany
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Africa
KW  - Zoology
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Army surgeons
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Naturalists
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, reports, family papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Mearns's career as a naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon.  Documents his activities as a collector of data on animal and plant life and his participation in the Smithsonian African Expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt in 1909.  Includes correspondence with Roosevelt
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101.3
ER  -