: T. Anders on hbrary Univ. Archives MNCAT Twin Cities - Full View of Record Page 1 of 2 Your Account Ask Us! Help Display Options U of M Libraries (Twin Basket Cities) Other Catalogs Last New Search: Browse INDUSTRY MISSESOTA Basic Advanced LIBRARIES MNCAT TWIN CITIES Last Search Search Command CATALOG History Add to Basket Print/Save/Email Full View of Record Display Format: Standard Full Brief Citation MARC Tags Full Record 26 out of 35 1 Previous Record Next Record Author University of Minnesota. Museum of Natural History. Title Records, 1872-1947. Description 35.75 linear ft. Availability TC Andersen Library University Archives Summary Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks. Includes personal diaries of Thomas Sadler Roberts, Johan Hvoslef, and other Minnesota naturalists, activities of the Young Naturalists Society, Roberts' personal and professional correspondence mainly on the subject of ornithology, bird class material, Itasca State Park, biographical material on Minnesota naturalists, correspondence with illustrators of Roberts' Birds of Minnesota (1932), scrapbooks containing clippings and other materials on the Museum of Natural History. Indexes/User Aid Unpublished finding aid available from repository. Note Museum originally formed from collections held by the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey. In 1890, the Survey was divided in three branches: geological, zoological, and botanical. The Zoological Survey closed in 1903. Collection of specimens resumed in 1915 when Thomas Sadler Roberts was appointed curator. The Zoological Museum was housed in the University of Minnesota Zoology Building until 1940 when the Museum of Natural History (now the Bell Museum of Natural History) was constructed. Subject LC Young Naturalists Society. University of Minnesota. Museum of Natural History. Subject LC Birds -- Minnesota. Birds in art. Natural history museums -- Minnesota. Ornithology -- Study and teaching Itasca State Park (Minn.) Contributor Bell, James Ford, 1879-1961 Breckenridge, Walter John, 1903- Deane, Ruthven, 1851-1934. http://saturn.oit.umn.edu/F/SDFAY1E6T6CXLUH7FFEVIUUM9GSALATFA7RX99MXP. 2/7/2007 MNCAT Twin Cities - Full View of Record Page 2 of 2 Hvoslef, Johan Christian, 1839-1920. Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 Roberts, Thomas S. (Thomas Sadler), 1858-1946 Material Type mix System No. 003154269 Display Format: Standard Full Brief Citation MARC Tags Full 1 Previous Record Next Record New Search Last Search Search History Last Browse Comments or Suggestions Help Other Catalogs End Session © 2006 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Funded in part by the State of Minnesota as a component of MnLINK. MNCAT® and LUMINA® registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources Libraries: Crookston, Duluth, Morris, University Libraries Twin Cities, Law Library Twin Cities Last revised: January 6, 2006 The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. http://saturn.oit.umn.edu/F/SDFAY1E6T6CXLUH7FFEVIUUM9GSALATFA7RX99MXP. 2/7/2007 il of Minnesata Thomas 5. Roberts HERBERT W. GLEASON Natural History Correspondence ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Scenic Alaska The Old Spanish Missions of California Mt. Monadnock Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Our National Parks Volcanic Peaks of the Pacific Coast The Maine Woods Alpine Flowers of the Rocky Mountains Our Romantic Southwest Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees Lafayette National Park Wild Flowers, East and West Grand Canyon of the Colorado - The Yellowstone Wonderland Island Gardens of Mt. Desert - Mushrooms and Other Fungi The Wonderland of Southern Utah - Over the John Muir Trail Afield with Henry David Thoreau The Spell of the Desert Ancient Cliff Dwellings of the Far West The Canadian Alps Gardens and Deserts of Southern California Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON 34, MASSACHUSETTS April 18, 1924. My dear Dr. Roberts: Here is another story which I had in the Boston Trans- script this week. The pictures are punk (there were a number of others which got crowded out, perhaps just as well), but you may be interested in the story. By the way, if you should want any of these gull photos for your educational work, or any lantern slides of the same, I think I can secure them for you at nominal cost. The negatives are in my control, but I took them for Mr. Geo. B. Dorr, superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, and he is glad to have them used for educational purposes. We have spent the past two summers at Bar Harbor, - rather a mild substitute for our trips into the Far West, but we have greatly en- joyed them, and plan to go there again this summer. It is a combination of business and pleasure for me (exclusively pleasure for Mrs. G.) which is very agreeable. My work during the summer is chiefly hotographic, with occasional lectures, and with a motor-boat and automobile at my dispos- al, the time goes pleasantly. You ought to visit Mt. Desert. I am sending you copy of a pamphlet recently issued at Washington which will tell you more about it. The half-tones in this are very good, as I think you will observe. By the way, can you tell me where I can get a good "blind" for bird work? I remember Mr. Figgins used to make a good contrivance, but I think he has discontinued the business. Tell me about yourself and what you are doing. I would like immensely to spend next month in Minnesota among the birds, but that is hardly feasible this year. Sincerely yours, Misheat H. Eleason Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn. 182 HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota Archives ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Thomas S. Roberts Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Mt. Monadnock The Wonderland of Southern Utah Natural History Correspondence Our National Parks Grand Canyon of the Colorado The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California - The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California - Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. March 5, 1923. My dear Dr. Roberts: You have been so incautious as to speak in complimentary terms of my story-telling, and I. therefore inflict upon you another screed which appeared in the Boston Transcript the other day. I had the page re- printed separately on better paper, hoping to bring the half-tones out in better shape; but newspaper cuts are pretty bum, as a rule, and I cannot get much satisfaction from them. Perhaps the story will interest you. I did not attend a single one of the Audubon Society's lectures this season, as my own engagements were so pressing. I felt the disappoint- ment less, however, knowing that there were none of your pictures to be shown. I was much interested in looking over the schedule of lectures at the University Museum. I know a chap here in Boston who I think could give a series under your auspices which I confidently believe you would find worth while and which would fit in very nicely with your general scheme. I don't know how much of a fund you have at your disposal, but if he could get a series of dates in the early part of May I am sure he would be willing to come for little more than his actual traveling expenses. He is just now very busy, with subjects printed above on this letter-head, but after April 15 he will be more at leisure. We have had a real Minnesota winter this year, though with no very low temperatures. But I have lost the whole winter, greatly to my sorrow. Have been kept on the jump all the while, with lecture engagements, story- writing, and special photographic work, not to mention two attacks of the "flu," - quite mild, fortunately, - so that I have had no first-hand touch with the winter at all. Spring is now in the air, and if I were out in the country I should be listening for bluebirds; but the only birds I hear are starlings and English sparrows - neither worth listening to. The coming of spring always revives my homesickness for Minnesota. I long to get back (among the birds and wild flowers, and I can think of no more delightful program for the month of May than to spend the entire month among my old haunts in Minnesota. Our plans for the summer are not yet set- tled. They want me to go to Bar Harbor again, where we spent three months last summer, and there is also a scheme for going to Yellowstone Park again HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND Archives NATURE-STUDY Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Thomas S. Roberts Mt. Monadnock - The Wonderland of Southern Utah Our National Parks Grand Canyon of the Colorado Natural History Corres pondence The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California - The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California - Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. with the Teton Mountains as special objective, but that is as yet quite un- certain. I hope you will be more fortunate this year and get away for a long outing. You are always so successful with your bird exploits, and the results are so interesting to other people, you really ought to devote more time to this "avocation" and leave the medical practice for others to take care of. But I must return to my preparations for a lecture on Mt. Desert which has been booked for the Appalachian Club and also the Boston City Club, both of which organizations always give me large audiences. I wish you could see Mrs. Gleason's colored slides, - they are very fine. Remember us most cordially to Mrs. Roberts, and if at any time you have an errand this way be sure and let us see you. Faithfully yours, Kenkert H. Eleasor Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis.