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    <title>John C. Merriam papers, 1899-1938</title>
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    <namePart>Merriam, John C. (John Campbell)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1869-1945</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, articles, notes, printed matter, drawings, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Merriam's work as chairman of the National Research Council (U.S.), president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution.  Also includes materials reflecting his interest in forestry and national parks.  Correspondents include James Bertram, Henry Bryant Bigelow, Howard Walter Blakeslee, William DuBois Brookings, Ovid Butler, Ralph W. Chaney, Bruce L. Clark, Newton Bishop Drury, Charles W. Eliott, George Ellery Hale, Ansel F. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Edgar Billings Howard, Raymond M. Hughes, Vernon L. King, Frederick P. Keppel, Waldo Gifford Leland, Frank Rattray Lillie, Harold Glenn Moulton, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Earl L. Packard, Stewart Paton, Raymond Pearl, Elihu Root, L.S. Rowe, Chester Stock, William Charles White, Edwin Bidwell Wilson, F.E. Wright, Robert Sterling Yard, and Robert Mearns Yerkes.</abstract>
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  <note>Paleontologist, educator, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bertram, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1934</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bigelow, Henry Bryant</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Blakeslee, Howard Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1952</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brookings, William DuBois</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1950</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Butler, Ovid</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Clark, Bruce L. (Bruce Lawrence)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Drury, Newton Bishop</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1993</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hale, George Ellery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1938</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1962</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
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      <namePart>Howard, Edgar Billings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1943</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hughes, Raymond M. (Raymond Mollyneaux)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1958</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>King, Vernon L</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1943</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Leland, Waldo Gifford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1966</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lillie, Frank Rattray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Moulton, Harold Glenn</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Osborn, Henry Fairfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1935</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Packard, Earl L. (Earl Leroy)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Paton, Stewart, 1865-1942</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rowe, L. S. (Leo Stanton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Stock, Chester</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1950</namePart>
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      <namePart>White, William Charles</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wilson, Edwin Bidwell</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wright, F. E. (Frederic Eugene)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1953</namePart>
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      <namePart>Yard, Robert Sterling</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart>Yerkes, Robert Mearns</namePart>
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