Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1 : Correspondence
Series 2 : Typescripts
Series 3 : Printed Articles by
Loomis
Series 4 : Newspaper Clippings
Series 5 : Miscellaneous
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Frederic Brewster Loomis (AC
1896) Papers, 1901-1936
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Benjamin Ledsham, Peter A.
Nelson.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
© 2002
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Creator:
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Loomis, Frederic Brewster, b. 1873 |
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Title:
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Loomis Papers |
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Dates:
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1901-1936 |
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Abstract:
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The
collection contains correspondence, typescripts and
scientific articles related to biological and archaeological
expeditions that Dr. Loomis made to Patagonia, South America,
1911-1912; the Big Badlands in South Dakota; the Wasatch
Basin in Wyoming; Converse County in Wyoming; Sioux County in
Nebraska; and other expeditions to Maine, Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Florida. |
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Extent:
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2 archives boxes(1 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Frederic Brewster Loomis, the son of Nathaniel H. And
Julia R. (Brewster) Loomis, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov.
22, 1873, and was fitted for college at Rochester Free
Academy, Rochester, N.Y., and Canandaigua Academy,
Canandaigua, N.Y.
After graduation from Amherst College in 1896 he was an
assistant in biology at Amherst, 1896-1897. He studied at the
University of Munich, Germany, 1897-1899, where he received
the degree of Ph.D. Returning to Amherst, he was instructor
in biology at Amherst College, 1899-1904; associate
professor, 1904-1908; professor of comparative anatomy,
1908-1918; and professor of mineralogy and geology,
1918-1937.
Dr. Loomis died of a cerebral hemorrhage, July 28, 1937 in
Sitka, Alaska. The interment was in Wildwood Cemetery,
Amherst, Massachusetts.
Dr. Loomis was the author of The Evolution of the Horse;
Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonia Pampas; Deseado
Formation of Patagonia; Field Book of Common Rocks and
Minerals; and Physiography of the United States. He also
wrote many pamphlets on vertebrate palaentology.
Dr. Loomis was married in 1904 and had two children.
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The collection contains correspondence, typescripts and
scientific articles related to biological and archaeological
expeditions that Dr. Loomis made to Patagonia, South America,
1911-1912; the Big Badlands in South Dakota; the Wasatch
Basin in Wyoming; Converse County in Wyoming; Sioux County in
Nebraska; and other expeditions to Maine, Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Florida.
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This collection is organized into five series:
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Series 1 : Correspondence
Box
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Folder
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1 |
Letters from Loomis to John F. Genung; Harry
W. Kidder
n.d.
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2 |
Letters to Loomis concerning
The Evolution of the Horse
n.d.
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3 |
Letters to Loomis: A-Z
n.d.
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Series 2 : Typescripts
Box
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Folder
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Economic Zoology
, chapters 1-10
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Economic Zoology
, chapters 11-14
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7 |
"On the Shell Heaps of Maine" and reprint
[from the
Journal of Science
, Vol. XXXIV, July, 1912]
1912 Jul
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A Proposal for a Joint Expedition of Amherst
College, the American Museum of Natural History, and
the National Museum
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Series 3 : Printed Articles by
Loomis
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Folder
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10 |
Definitions of the Phyla, Classes, and Orders
of Chordata
n.d.
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11 |
Directions for the Sophmore Laboratory
Work
, Amherst, Mass., 1901;
Laboratory drawing Book
"Stegomus Longpipes" [from the
Journal of Science
, Vol. XVII, May, 1904]. "Turtles from the Upper
Harrison Beds" [From the
Journal of Science
, Vol. XXXVIII, July, 1909].
1901-1909
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"Ontogeny: The Study of the Value of Young
Features in Determining the Phylogeny" [Reprint from
the
Popular Science Monthly
, September, 1910]; "The Camels of the Harrison Beds,
with Three New Species" [from the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XXXI, January, 1911]; "New Mink from the Shell
Heaps of Maine" [from the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XXXI, March, 1911];
Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonian
Pampas
, Amherst College 1913.
1910-1913
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The Deseado Formation of Patagonia
, Amherst College, 1914. "A New Mosasaur from the Ft.
Pierre." [From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XXXI, March 1911.]
1911, 1914
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"Dr. Hitchcock and the Amherst Indian
Collection"
Amherst Graduate's Quarterly
, June, 1915. "A Pleistocene Locality on Mount Desert
Island, Maine" [from the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XLII, November, 1916]. "An Unusual Mastadon."
[From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XLV, June 1918.] "An Amphibian from the Eocene."
[From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XLVII, March, 1919.] "On Ticholeptus Rusticus
and the Genera of Oreadontidae." [From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. L, October, 1920.] "Postglacial Faulting About
Mount Toby Massachusetts." [From Bull. Geol. Soc. Am.,
Vol. 32, 1920.] "Oreddons of the Lower Harrison Beds."
[From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. VI, September, 1923.] "Early Man in Florida."
[Reprinted from the
Natural History
, XVI, No. 3, 1926, pp. 206-262.]
1915-1926
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Report of the Phi Delta Theta Expedition of
1927, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. "The Giant
Tortoise from Florida." [From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XIII, May, 1927.] "Phylogeny of the Deer." [From
the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XVI, December, 1928.] "Variations in the Species
of Merycoidodon." From the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XX, July, 1930.
1927-1930
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Report of the Amherst Expedition of 1931
, Nebraska and Wyoming. "A New Oligocene Dog." [From
the
American Journal of Science
, Vol. XXII, August, 1931.] "The Small Carnivores of
the Miocene." [From the
American Journal of Science
, XXIV, October, 1932.] "Three Oreodont Skeletons from
the Lower Miocene of the Great Plains." [Bulletin of
the Geological Society of America. Vol. 44, pp.
723-734.]
1931-1932
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Outline for the Course on Man and His
Environment
, 1935. "Three New Miocene Dogs and Their Phylogeny."
[Reprint for private circulation.
Journal of Paleontology
, Vol. 10, No. 1, January, 1936.] "Are Conodonts
Gastropods?" [Reprint for private circulation. Journal
of Paleontology, Vol. 10, No. 7, October, 1936.] "The
Skeleton of a New Fossil Camel from Wyoming." [Reprint
from University of Wyoming Publication, Vol. 2, No. 5,
pp. 59-64. May 1, 1936.]
1935-1936
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Series 4 : Newspaper Clippings
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Newspaper clippings about Loomis and his
work (expeditions)
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Series 5 : Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous notes
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Newspaper clippings and map on "Oil in South
Hadley"
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Four student papers, 1912
1912
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