This file contains correspondence and includes an exchange regarding identification of restricted species with the Department of Fish and Game and an exchange regarding a collecting expedition to Africa.

This file contains division reports concerning publications, field work, new exhibits, and outstanding accessions. Includes Machris accessions records and information on the snow leopard habitat group.

This file contains correspondence regarding a jaguar collecting expedition to Mexico and includes hunting regulations and permits.

This series contains correspondence, collecting permits, and other materials related to the Museum's habitat halls, diorama program, and collecting expeditions.

This file contains accession data for the Ferguson insect collection.

This file contains correspondence regarding museum field work, museum expedition reports, and Science division meeting reports. It includes information on the Machris expedition to Central India, Brazil expedition plans, and other habitat group and Machris-funded collecting expeditions.

This file contains correspondence regarding field work and specimen collection.

This file contains correspondence regarding a National Science Foundation research grant supporting a collecting expedition to Western Uganda.

This file contains Life Sciences division collection data.

Oversize photograph of Herbert F. Berla, ornithologist from the Brazil Musuem, preparing a rhen specimen in the field on the 1956 Machris Brazil expedition.