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040 _aDLC
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_dDLC
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_2lcmd
100 1 _aMearns, Edgar Alexander,
_d1856-1916.
245 0 0 _aEdgar Alexander Mearns papers,
_f1864-1918
_g(bulk 1876-1916).
300 _a5,850
_fitems.
300 _a18
_fcontainers plus
_a3
_foversize.
300 _a8.4
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 6 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1883-1910; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1864-1918; Series 3: Military Correspondence, 1880-1911; Series 4: Special Correspondence, circa 1877-1916; Series 5: Miscellany, circa 1880-1916; and Series 6: Oversize, circa 1891-1898.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
544 _3Some photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aNaturalist and U.S. Army surgeon.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Theodore,
_d1858-1919.
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Theodore,
_d1858-1919
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 4 _aMearns family.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xMedical care.
611 2 0 _aSmithsonian African Expedition
_d(1909)
650 0 _aBotany.
650 0 _aNatural history.
650 0 _aScientific expeditions
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aZoology.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xDiscovery and exploration.
656 7 _aArmy surgeons.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aNaturalists.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012101.3
999 _c39960
_d39960