Edgar Alexander Mearns papers, 1864-1918 (bulk 1876-1916).

Open to research.

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.

Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101