Laufer, Berthold. 1874-1934
Sinologist+ Jesup North Pacific Exped., Saghalin and the Amur, 1898-99; Jacob H+ Schiff Expedition, China, 1901-04; asst. ethnologlst, Amer. Museum of Natural History, 1904-08; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1905-07; Blackstone Exped., Tibet and China, 1908-10; asst., Field Museum of Natural History, 1908-15, curator, 1915-34; Marshall Field Exped. to China, 1923.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61) 228 Ls. (140 to Boas, 88 to Laufer) + 31 Ls. to/fr. C.E. Bedman, James L.+Bowes, F.H. Chalfont, Walter Clark, Thomas R.+Clarke, W.H. Furness, F.W. Putnam, C. Wissler, H.C. Wright, and others. Jesup North Pacific Expedition; Amer. Museum of Natural History; Field Museum; Chinese languages, ethnography, and material culture; fieldwork; museum collections and operations; teaching; employment; research funding; Northwest Coast American Indian material culture and ethnography; Amer. Anthropologist; Amer. Anthr. Ass.; Int. Congress of Americanists; NRC; Germanistic Soc.; publcs.; personal.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 30 Jan. 1926 to 21 Oct. 1933. 46 Ls. (23 to Mason, 23 to Laufer). + 3 Ls. to/fr. Walter Lehmann, D. C. Davies. Archeology; fieldwork; museum collcs; publcs.; personal.
Leon y Gama, Antonio de.
Mexican historian and antiquarian.
Ms.
An Historical and Chronological Description of Two Stones, Found Under Ground in the Great Square of the City of Mexico, in the Year 1790 (913.72/155) Trans. by W.E. Hulings in 1818. 84 lvs. + 23 lvs. of notes. History and architecture of the Aztecs.
Lesley, J. Peter. 1819-1903.
Geologist, secretary and librarian of the APS. Asst., Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1838-41, 1852-56, state geologist, 1873-87; Presbyterian minister, 1 845- 53; Soc., Amer. Iron Ass., 1 8 56-64; prof., mining, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1859-72, dean of the science dept., 1872-75, dean, Towne Sci. School, 1875-83, prof emeritus, 1883-1903; librarian, Amer. Phil. Soc., 18591885, Soc., 1859-87, vice-pres., 1887-1903.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). ca.1859-87.
Correspondence with various individuals in his capacity as secretary and librarian. Correspondents include Daniel Garrison Brinton, Joseph Carson, A.S. Gatschet, A.H. Guyot, S.S. Haldeman, Mathew S. Henry, Everard Im Thurn. American Indian tribes and languages; arch. specimens; antiquities; publcs.
Lesley, J. Peter. Papers (B/L56.1). ca.1826-98. Letters, notebooks, papers. Correspondents include Matthew S. Henry, George A. Belcourt, Joseph Carson, J.W. Powell, and others on Indian languages and ethnography. There are six notebooks on Egyptian hieroglyphics, and others on philology, antiquities, and ancient man. Paper topics include studies on C.O. Mueller's "Doric Race," Stonehenge, the deities of the Rig Veda, "Grotes Greece," the Aenead Aphrodite, and popular superstitions.
Lewis, Meriwether. 1744-1809.
Explorer, soldier. U.S. Army, 1795-1806; private sec, to Thomas Jefferson, 1801-03; co-leader ofLewis and Clark expedition to explore the head-waters of the Missouri River and to discover a land route to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-06; governor of Louisiana Territory, 1807-09.
Mss.
Journal (917.3/159p). 30 Aug. to 12 Dec. 1803. 123 lvs. Journal of river trip down Ohio River to the winter camp of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Interlineated in the journal, and also in a separate volume (917.3/L58.6), are queries posed by Nicholas Biddle to William Clark in 1810 about the succeeding Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis' observations in his journal include remarks on Indian mounds and on the social organization, religion, and material culture of Indians observed on the journey.
Journal of Travels to the Source of the Missouri & Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-06 (917.3/L58). With William Clark. 1804-06. 9 vols. of 30 codices,ca.2000 lvs. Includes interlineations by Nicholas Biddle. Journals contain notes on Indian languages, material culture, social organization, customs. See also Journal (917.3/0.2) by John Ordway (ca. 1775-1817), another member of the expedition. 1804-06. 3 vols.
Linton, Ralph. 1893-1953.
Anthropologist, archeologist. Archeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-21; asst. curator, North Amer. ethnol., Field Museum of Nat. Hist., Chicago, 1922-26, Oceanic and Malayan ethnol., 1926-28; assoc. prof., anthropology, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1928-30, prof, 1930-37; prof., Columbia Univ., 1937-46; prof., Yale Univ., 1946-53; ed., Amer. Anthropologist, 1939-44.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 11 Sept. 1917 to 10 Feb. 1943. 17 Ls. (8 to Boas, 9 to Linton) + 2 Ls. to/fr. E.P. Boas, L.P. Eisenhart. Prof. positions; Polynesian culture; research funding; personal.
Goodale, Hubert Dana. Papers (B/G61). 14 to 29 Sept. 1949. 2 Ls. (1 to Goodale, 1 to Linton). Environment versus heredity in personality. 9 Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 15 Feb. 1939 to 3 Feb. 1947. 55 Ls. (31 to Mason, 24 to Linton) + 4 Ls. to/fr. Charles A. Reed, Helen E. Hause, Amer. Anthr. Ass. Viking Fund; Amer. Anthropologist.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 16 to 22 Jan. 1941. L. to Parsons + copy of L. to Leslie White. Amer. Anthropologist.
Lowie, Robert. 1883-1957.
Anthropologist. Asst., dept. of anthropology, Amer. Museum of Natural History, 1908-09, asst. curator, 1909-13, assoc. curator, 1913-21; assoc. prof., anthropology, Univ. of California, 1917-18, 1921-25, prof., 1925-1950, emeritus prof., 1950-57; editor, Amer. Anthropologist, 1924-33.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 21 Sept. 1905 to 26 lan. 1942. 126 Ls. (70 to Boas, 56 to Lowie) + 1 L. fr. F.H. Allport. Ethnology; ethnology and psychology; fieldwork; folklore; social organization; material culture; religion; linguistics; NRC; prof. positions; personal; publcs.
Lowie, Robert. Crow Affixes (497.3/B63c/x3b.l). n.d. 42 lvs.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 9 Oct. 1928 to 20 Oct. 1947. 43 Ls. (26 to Mason, 17 to Lowie) + 5 Ls. to A. Kroeber, Ralph L. Beals, Gwen Block. Research funding; Amer. Anthropologist; publcs.
Moe, Henry Allen. Papers (B/M722). 18 Oct. 1941 to 19 Aug. 1942. 4 Ls. (2 to Moe, 2 to Lowie). Latin Amer. historians; research funding.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/1)25.1). 25 March 1936 to 19 Feb. 1941. 17 Ls. (1 to Lowie, 16 to Parsons) + thirteen manuscript leaves entitled "On Goldenweiser's Recent Trends in American Anthropology." Manuscript includes critique of Goldenweiser, Radin, and Sapir. Letters discuss social organization, culture, religion, ethnological theory, folklore, personal matters, publcs., misc.
Lubbock, John. 1834-1913.
Naturalist, author, M.P. Member of Roberts, Lubbock 8r Co., bankers, from 1849, later head of the firm; pres., Institute of Bankers, 1879-93; chairman, committee of London clearing bankers, and pres., Central Ass. of Bankers, 1898-1913; M.P., 1870-90; member of senate and vice-chancellor, London Univ., 1872-80; F.R.S., member and officer of many scientific societies; popular and scientific writer on numerous topics, including prehistory and anthropology.
Correspondence .
Lubbock, John. Papers (B/L961). 15 Sept. 1856 to 18 Tuly 1903. 25 Ls. Correspondents include A.W. Franks, J. Jeremiah, E. B. Tylor, and Sir William Creswicke Rawlinson. Prehistory; ethnology; arch, artifacts.; Ethnological Soc. of London.
There also is extensive correspondence with Charles Darvin on a variety of subjects, in the Darwin collection.
Lyell, Charles. 1797-1875.
Geologist, natural historian. Practicing barrister, 1825-27; devoted himself full-time to study of geology thereafter; F.R.S., 1826; Soc., Geological Soc., 1823-26, pres., 1834-36, 1849-50; pres., BAAS, 1864-65; member of numerous scientific societies and parliamentary commissions.
Correspondence.
Collections of letters from Various Scientists (D25.L). 1837-74. ca 350 Ls. Includes letters to Lyell from George Busk, George Rolleston, J.F.W. Herschel, T.H. Huxley, R. Owen, A.R. Wallace. Evolution; antiquity of man; craniology; Neanderthal man; Hottentots; ethnology; geographical distribution of races.
Lyell, Charles. Papers (B/L981). 1808-74. ca.280 Ls. Includes letters to John Evans, Milne Home, John Kempe, E.T. Stevan, S.W. Symonds, Albert Way, S.V. Wood. Prehistory; archeology; antiquity of man; neolithic implements; Roman ruins; Stonehenge. See also History of Science Films 1 and 4: "Papers on America in Collcs. of Royal Society of London" and Lyell Family Correspondence.
McGee, William J. 1853-1912.
Anthropologist, geologist. Land surveying and justice-court practice, 187375; invention and manufacture of agricultural implements, 1874-76; geological and topographical survey of northeastern Iowa, 1877-81; U.S. Geological Survey, 1883-93; ethnologist in charge, Bureau of Amer. Ethnology, 1893-1903; chief, dept. of anthropology, St. Louis Expn., 1904; dir., St. Louis Public Museum, 1905-07; U.S. commissioner, Int. Archeological and Ethnological Comm., 1902-12, Inland Waterways Comm., 1907-12.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 5 Dec. 1893 to 7 May 1910. 366 Ls. (232 to Boas, 134 to McGee) + 7 Ls. fr. McGee to D.G. Brinton, W.H. Holmes, H.H. St.Clair, Charles D. Walcott, RS. Woodward. Bureau of Amer. Ethnology; Amer. Anthropological Ass.; Smithsonian Inst.; Amer. Anthropologist; St. Louis Purchase Expn.; anthropometry of Amer. Indians; philology; research funding; American ethnography; prof. positions; publcs.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1884-1942.
Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-13; anthropoiogical expdn. to New Guinea, 1914-20; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-27, professor, 1927-42; visiting prof., Yale Univ., 1939-42.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 13 Oct. 1928 to 17 Feb. 1936. 14 Ls. (6 to Boas, 7 to Malinowski) + 1 L. to Lloyd Warner fr. Malinowski. Rockefeller Foundation and research funding; placing ofemigr& German scholars; personal.
Pearl, Raymond. Papers (B/P312). 30 April 1935 to 17 Oct. 1939. 16 Ls. (8 to Pearl, 8 to Malinowski). Personal; publcs.
Marett, Robert R. 1866-1943.
Anthropologist. Tutor in philosophy, Exeter College, Oxford Univ., 18931928, sub-rector, 1893-98, rector, 1928-43; reader in social anthropology, Oxford Univ., 1910-36.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 6 March 1912 to 18 March 1931. 19 Ls. (11 to Boas, 8 to Marett). Int. Congress of Anthr. Sciences; Int. Congress of Americanists; personal; publcs.
Marsh, Gordon H. (Rev. Priestmonk Innocent). ca.1915
Linguist, priest.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 2 March 1936 to 17 May 1942. 16 Ls. (10 to Boas, 6 to Marsh). Fieldwork; linguistics; Iowa language; personal; misc.
Marsh, Gordon H. Materials for a Study of the Iowa Indian Language (497.3/B63c/x4a.2). ca.1940s. 1000 lvs. of notes, reprints; lists; 4000 cards; 75 field notebooks; photographs. 11 Ls. 11 May 1942 to 13 Oct. 1944. Correspondents include Robert Lowie, Ruth Benedict, H.W. Dorsey, Walter Dyk. Iowa language texts and translations; grammatical notes; parts of speech and notes on Iowa, Winnebago, Otoe, Ponca, and others; folk-tales in trans.
Moe, Henry A. Papers (B/M722). 24 Dec. 1937 to 8 Jan. 1938. 2 Ls. (1 to Moe, 1 to Marsh). Univ. life at Oxford.
Mason, J. Alden. 1885-1967.
Anthropologist. Asst. curator, Mexican and South American archeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-24; asst. curator, Mexican arch., American Museum of Natural History, N.Y., 1924-25; curator, Amer. arch, and ethnology, Univ. Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1926-55, curator emeritus, 1955-67; ed., Amer. Anthropologist, 1945-48.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 10 Dec. 1943. L. to John S. Jenks. Pre-Columbian gold artifacts.
Boas, Franz. Professional Papers (B/B61). 30 Nov. 1903 to 7 Nov. 1940. 236 Ls. (152 to Boas, 84 to Mason) + 4 Ls. to/fr. A.M. Espinosa, H.H. Roberts, Wilbur K. Thomas. Arch.; prehistory; fieldwork; linguistics; folklore; Puerto Rico Insular Survey; research funding; material culture; professional positions; publcs.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 21 May 1928 to 11 July 1928. 3 Ls. (1 to Davenport, 2 to Mason). Data on comparative human longevity collected by Wm. Farabee.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 1903-1967. 27 ln. ft.,ca.5000 items. 21 ln. ft. of correspondence on personal and professional matters. Correspondents include F. Boas, M. Herskovits, R. Lowie, R. Linton, S. Tax, A. Kroeber, G. Murdock, E. Sapir, A. Hallowell, E. Hooton, M. Mead, G. Reichard, J. Swanton, A. Kidder, C. Kluckhohn, J. Steward, and others. Also, 1 box, Latin American Institute; 4 boxes, Papago linguistic notes, word lists; 2 boxes, Papago linguistic card files; 2 ln. ft., Pima ling. card files; 1 box, misc, notes on Tepecan ethnology, linguistics, religion; 1 box, notebooks; Mexican photographs, 1913-17.
... Papers (B/M384.n). 1904-10. 16 items. Notes on anthropology, archeology, ethnology, linguistics, and phonetics taken while a student at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
... Tepehuan Language Material (Records 11, 12). Record 11, southern Tepehuan material. 1948. 3 reels. Record 12, northern Tepehuan material. 1951. 3 reels.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 7 July 1939 to 10 January 1941. 5 Ls. (3 to I)arsons, 2 to Mason). Amer. Anthr. Ass.; SSRC; publcs.
Mason, Otis. 1838-1908.
Anthropologist, museum curator. Principal, Columbian Preparatory School, Washington, D.C., 1862-84; curator, Div. of Ethnology, U.S. National Museum, 1884-1902, head curator, Dept. ofAnthropology, 1902-08; ed., anthropological papers, Smithsonian Inst.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 23 May 1885 to 22 Oct. 1908. 65 Ls. (44 to Boas, 21 to Mason). Museum collcs.; Amer. Indian material culture; anthropology and religion; Indian mortuary rituals; ethnological theory; publcs.
Letters of Scientists (509/L56.24). 2 June 1894. L. fr. the Marquis de Nadaillac. Antiquity of man; publcs.
Matthew, William Diller. 1871-1930.
Paleontologist. Asst. paleontologist, Amer. Museum of Nat. Hist., 1 895-98, asst. curator, 1899-1901, assoc. curator, 1902-10, curator, 1910-22, curator-in-chieef, earth sciences, 1922-27; prof. and head of dept., paleontology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1927-30.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Misc. Mss. Coll.). n.d. 1,. to unknown individual. "Snake Creek artifacts" and age of man in North America.
Mathews, Robert Hamilton. 1841-1918.
Australian anthropologist.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). May 1897 to 31 July 1898. 11 Ls. To APS, Harrison Allen, Frederick Fraley, I. Minis Hays. Publcs. on Australian rock carvings in APS Proceedings.
Mayfair, R.L.
British Consul, Algiers.
LeConte, John L. Papers (B/L493). 14 Nov. 1876. L. fr. R.L. Mayfair. James Bruce of Kinnaird; North African arch.
Mead, Margaret. 1901-1978.
Anthropologist. Asst. curator, ethnology, Amer. Museum of Natural History, 1926-42, assoc. curator, 1942-64, curator, 1964-69, emeritus curator, 1969-78, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-53; adj. prof., anthropology, Columbia Univ., 1954-78.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Misc. Mss. Coll.). 20 Aug. 1974. L. fr. Romana Javitz. Boas facial scar.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 14 July 1925 to 28 Oct. 1940. 41 Ls. (32 to Boas, 9 to Mead) + 1 L. to F.R. Lillie fr. Mead. Adolescence and family life in Samoa; personality and culture; Samoan ethnography; adolescence and social life in New Guinea; sexual behavior; NRC; Reo Fortune; Radcliffe-Brown. Includes 6 Jan. 1926 report to NRC, entitled "A Study in Heredity and Environment Based on an Investigation of the Phenomena of Adolescence among Primitive and Civilized Peoples."
Carmichael, Leonard. Papers (B/B212). 20 Sept. 1971. L. fr. Mead. Personal.
McCulloch, Warren S. Papers (B/M139). 27 Feb. 1946. L. fr. Mead.
McCulloch Ms. on "circularity;" Gregory Bateson.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 17 Feb. 1930 to 25 July 1946. 15 Ls. (10 to Mason, 5 to Mead). Personal; publcs.
Mead, Margaret. An Anthropologist at Work: the Writings of Ruth Benedict (B/B428.mx). 1957-58. 175 lvs. Photocopy of first working copy, correspondence only. Includes corr. between Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, Reo F. Fortune, Margaret Mead. 16 Sept. 1923 to 1934.
Shryock, R.H. Papers (B/Sh86). 26 Nov. 1940 to 9 April 1941. 2 Ls. to Mead. Publcs.
Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology.
University of Chicago microfilm collection of anthropological manuscripts dealing with Central America. Nos. 1-72, 77-99, 100, 103, 108-109, 111-112, 116-117, 120-123, 126-127, 131-132, 136, 141-142, 146, 156-158, 160-161, 165-167, 170-171, 175-176, 186-191, 195-196, 221, 226. Includes works by Robert Redfield, Manuel Andrade, Sol Tax, Antonio Carrera, Juan de Dios Resales, Betty W. Starr, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Howard W. Law, and many others.
Miscellaneous Documents on Linguistics and Ethnology.
The American Philosophical Society Library has many miscellaneous anthropological manuscripts, primarily on the study of language, but also in ethnology and archeology. They are too extensive to be included within the present study, but are listed in Freeman and Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the American Philosophical Society Library, and in Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to the Guide..., in Bell and Smith, Guide to the Archives and Manuscripts Collections, and in Stephen Catlett's forthcoming Manuscript Guide. A representative number of the holdings are listed below according to call number.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham. 1764-1831.
Physician, natural historian, U.S. Senator. Prof., natural history, chemistry, agriculture, Columbia College, 1793-1801, of botany, 1793-95; U.S. Representative, 1801-03, 1810-13; U.S. Senator, 1804-09; prof, chemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1807-08, prof, natural history, 1808-20, prof., botany and materia medica, 1820-26; vice president, Rutgers Medical College, 1826-30.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 24 Feb. 1819. L. to Peter S. DuPonceau. American Indian languages and origins.
Moe, Henry Allen. 1894-1975.
Foundation executive. Ed. staff, St. Paz~l Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 191617; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford Univ., 1923-24; law lecturer, Columbia Univ., 1927-29; first secretary, Soc. general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-63; chmn., Nat. Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-66.
Correspondence, Mss.
Moe, Henry Allen. Papers (B/M722). ca.1920-75. ca.175,000 items (180 ln. ft.). There is extensive correspondence in the Moe papers detailing Guggenheim Foundation support of scholarship and academic exchange. Of particular interest are records of the Latin America Fund, which supported research in Latin American linguistics, ethnography, and archeology. Correspondents include Franz Boas, Robert Lowie, G.P. Murdock, Robert Redfield, Clark Wissler, The Archaeological Institute of America, the Richard Leakey Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation Program in Linguistics and Language Study.
Montagu, Ashley. 1905
Anthropologist, social biologist. Research assoc., British Museum of Natural History, 1926-27; curator, phys. anthr., Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-30; asst. prof, anatomy, N.Y. Univ., 1931-38; assoc. prof, anat., Hahnemann Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1938-49; chmn., dep. ofanthr., Rutgers Univ., 1949-55; senior lect., VA post-grad. training program, 1946-; lect., New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-59.
Correspondence.
Carmichael, Leonard. Papers (B/C212). 16 Aug. 1960 to 3 Dec. 1960. 5 Ls. (2 to Montagu, 3 to Carmichael). Publ.cs.; prenatal influences on behavior.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Papers (B/D65). 29 Jan. 1962 to 28 June 1974. 5 Ls. to Dobzhansky. Race and IQ; Leslie Dunn; publcs.
McCulloch, Warren S. Papers (B/M139). 9 Feb. 1959 to 10 March 1959. 5 Ls. (3 to McCulloch, 2 to Montagu). Freud; publcs.
Moore, Clarence Bloomfield. 1852-1936
Businessman, archeologist. Researcher and writer on American Indian mounds.
Correspondence .
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 2 Sept. to 9 Sept. 1897. 2 Ls. to APS. Reports on Indian mounds in Georgia and Florida.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 2 Oct. 1903 to 16 Oct. 1908. 7 Ls. (4 to Boas, 3 to Moore). Fund-raising; publcs.
Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1818-1881.
Ethnologist, lawyer. Practiced law in Rochester, N.Y., from 1851; New York State Assembly, 1861-68, State Senate, 1868-69; active in the study of American ethnology, from the early 1840s; wrote on the history and customs of the American Indians and on social evolution; organizer and first chairman of Section H of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, 1875.
Correspondence, Mss.
Morgan, Lewis H. Manuscript journals and Record of Indian Letters (Film 582). ca.1845-76. Film from originals in Rochester Univ. Library. 6 vols. of memoranda on Indian ceremonies, vocabularies, expeditions to visit Indian tribes, description of Indian life, misc. notes; 2 vols. of correspondence regarding laws of descent and systems or relationship among the American Indians.
Morley, Sylvanus G. 1883-1948.
Archeologist. Research fellow, Central Amer. arch., Harvard Univ., 1907-1908; fieldwork, School of Amer. Arch., 1909-14; research assoc., Carnegie Instn., 1915-18, in charge of arch. expdns. to Central America, 1918-24; dir., Chichen Itza project, 1924-40.
Correspondence, Diaries.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 20 March to 29 June 1933. 8 Ls. (4 to Davenport, 4 to Morley). Year span between generations; Maya chronology; public addresses.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M381). 20 Oct. 1927 to 15 Nov. 1948. 74 Ls. (29 to Mason, 45 to Morley). Maya arch., material culture; fieldwork; museum collcs.; publcs.
Morley, Sylvanus. Diaries (B/M828). 1905-1947. 39 volumes. Typed. Maya and Pecos arch.; fieldwork; Maya inscriptions; Carnegie Found.; personal.
Morton, Samuel George. 1799-1851.
Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-51; prof. of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-43; member of the Amer. Phil. Soc. and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity.
Correspondence, Mss.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 5 May 1843. L. to A.D. Bache. Egyptian ethnography.
Morton, Samuel George. Letters (Film 1413). ca.1838 to 1844. 216 Ls. and assorted mss., including memoranda, invitations, broadsides, etc. Correspondents include J. C. Prichard, John Bachman, George Gliddon, S. S. Haldeman, Thomas Hodgkin. Craniology; human hybridity; the origin of human races.
... Papers (B/M843). 20 Dec. 1819 to 28 Dec. 1850. 485 items, mostly correspondence to Morton. Correspondents include Thomas Hodgkin, Benjamin Silliman, John Bachman, George Combe, J.C. Prichard, George Gliddon. Race; craniology; human hybridity.
... Sketches (B/M843.5). Sketches of human skeletons. 12 sketches, primarily American Indians.
Murdock, George Peter. 1897-1985.
Anthropologist. Instr., sociology, Univ. of Maryland, 1925-27; asst. prof., Yale, 1928-34, assoc. prof., ethnology, 1934-39, prof, anthro., 1939-60, director, cross-cultural survey, Inst. of Human Relations, 1937-46; Mellon prof., anthr., Univ. ofPittsburgh, 1960-71, emer. prof, 1971-1985.
Correspondence .
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 8 Feb. 1946 to 12 Sept. 1952. 25 Ls. (12 to Mason, 13 to Murdock) + 2 Ls. to Linton Sattherwaite and Weston LaBarre. Soc. for Applied Anthropology; Velikovsky; Amer. Anthropologist; publcs.
Myres, John Linton. 1869-1954.
Archeologist, historian. Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford Univ., 1892-95; lecturer in classical arch., Oxford Univ., 1895-1907; prof of Creek and lecturer in ancient geography, Liverpool Univ., 1907-10; Wykeham prof of ancient history, Oxford Univ., 1910-39; ed., Man, 1901-03, 1931-46; chairman, British School at Athens, 1934-47.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 21 May 1909 to 13 Nov. 1940. 22 Ls. (16 to Boas, 6 to Myres). International School of Amer. Arch. & Ethn.; intern. congresses of anthr. and arch.