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Collection includes photocopy correspondence and notes regarding the geology of the Columbia Gorge.

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Collection consists largely of photocopies of articles by Robert Brown published in various scientific journals, 1868-1870, on botany, medicinal plants, birds, geology and Native American use of medicinal plants in the Pacific Northwest. Also included is a photocopy of a manuscript letter from Archibald Menzies to Robert Brown.

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Frank Cathcart Calkins (1878-1974) was a mapper, petrologist, and geologist. Collection consists of correspondence, primarily to Henrietta Mack Eliot, 1973-1974, regarding past trips to the Pacific Northwest while working for the U. S. Geological Survey, as well as letters concerning the account of his father, C. G. Calkins, of the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.

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Oral history interview with Samuel L. Diack conducted by Charles Digregorio on May 6, 1976. Diack discusses his service as president of the board of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

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Collection consists of photocopied articles published in the the London Journal of Botany from 1845-1847, concerning Charles (Karl) A. Geyer's investigations of plant life in Missouri and the Oregon Territory.

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Collection includes miscellaneous administrative documents, pamphlets, and other ephemera and reports relating to the Geological Society of the Oregon Country. Frederick Earl Miller was president of the society in 1965.

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The Oregon Academy of Science was organized in 1943 and incorporated in 1946 to promote scientific research in Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1943-1965, of treasurers, presidents, etc.; reports, 1946-1964; minutes, 1944-1964; financial records, 1943-1964; membership records, constitution and by-laws, 1943-1964; high school research grants, 1957-1964.

Abstract Dr. Albert G. Prill was a physician for the Southern Pacific Railway and a well-known ornithologist. He lived in Scio, Oregon. Collection includes notes on natural history, conservation of wildlife and Pacific Northwest birds; clippings and radio scripts about his collection of birds; scrapbooks of photographs of nests, eggs and birds; bird notes from Malheur Lake Reservation by Prill and Stanley Jewett; descriptions of trips to collect and observe with Dr. J. H. Hill; and articles and...

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Papers and images compiled by Jack C. Riley (1921-2016), who worked as an electrical engineer and was employed by the Portland, Oregon firm Electro Scientific Instruments.

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Collection includes memoranda of weather from diary of Judge Loughlin, 1856-1857, copied by Samuel K. Brooks; weather reports, showing daily maximum and minimum temperatures, barometric pressure, precipitation, 1875-1912; voluntary observers meteorological records, 1875-1912; report of river station at The Dalles, 1899-1909.