Box 1
Container
Contains 176 Results:
To Mother (Harriet Ridgway) [click to view], 1871 April 28
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
This letter was sent form the Smithsonian Institution and it requested his mother to send him a Black Hawk specimen.
Dates:
1871 April 28
Spencer Baird to Samuel Hubbard [click to view], 1867 May 8
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
The letter asked Hubbard assist Ridgway in preparing for his upcoming trip, with Clarence King, to the West
Dates:
1867 May 8
Spencer Baird to Whom it may concern [click to view], 1867 May 8
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Letter includes a sheet of paper entitled "Persons to whom Mr. Ridgway is especially recommended."
Dates:
1867 May 8
E.A. Abbott, 1921 March 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
This letter announced that Ridgway had been awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and Hornoalum from the National Academy of Sciences
Dates:
1921 March 24
William F. Bade, 1919 August 21
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
The letter congratulates Ridgway on the recent publication of part viii of his Birds of North America publication
Dates:
1919 August 21
Spencer Baird [click to view], 1864 July 12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
This letter explained to Ridgway were he could find a copy of Baird's book, Birds of North America
Dates:
1864 July 12
Spencer Baird [click to view], 1865 February 2
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ridgway papers constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge of scientific research in the American West during the 1860s and of American scientific illustration during the latter part of the 19th century. The collection spans a period from 1864 through the early 1940s and chronicles the lives of two important American naturalists, John and Robert Ridgway. The fact that the two were brothers, and that their collection contains a great deal of family material, adds a unique...
Dates:
1865 February 2
Spencer Baird [click to view], 1865 July 29
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ridgway papers constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge of scientific research in the American West during the 1860s and of American scientific illustration during the latter part of the 19th century. The collection spans a period from 1864 through the early 1940s and chronicles the lives of two important American naturalists, John and Robert Ridgway. The fact that the two were brothers, and that their collection contains a great deal of family material, adds a unique...
Dates:
1865 July 29
Spencer Baird [click to view], 1865 August 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
The above letters all answered Ridgway's ornithology questions
Dates:
1865 August 16
Spencer Baird [click to view], 1866 October 26
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ridgway papers constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge of scientific research in the American West during the 1860s and of American scientific illustration during the latter part of the 19th century. The collection spans a period from 1864 through the early 1940s and chronicles the lives of two important American naturalists, John and Robert Ridgway. The fact that the two were brothers, and that their collection contains a great deal of family material, adds a unique...
Dates:
1866 October 26