Edgar Alexander Mearns papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5850
Subjects: Correspondence; Botany; Smithsonian African Expedition (1909); Description and travel; Scientific expeditions; United States; Medical care; Natural history; United States. Army; Zoology; Discovery and exploration
Description: 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.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Charles W. Richmond, 1924-1926.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon.

Collection material in English.

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