Research Collaborator
Smithsonian Institution Archives
PO Box 37012
Capital Gallery Bldg MRC 570
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Email: cnelson at usgs.gov
Research Interests
Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), Smithsonian Research Collaborator and resident paleontologist Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian in the 1850s and 1860s
Current Research Projects
History of the U.S. Geological Survey, Volume 4, 1939-1979
Current or Projected Exhibits
Biography of Meek
Recent Publications
Articles: Geologic Maps of US, 1803-1893 (Amer Phil Soc Memoir 231, 1999)
9 in American National Biography (Oxford, 1999-2005)
3 in History of science US--Encyclopedia (Garland, 2001)
3 in Development of industrial US, 1870-99 (Facts on File, 2003)
1 in Episodes (Intl Union Geol Scis, 2006)
2 in New Dict Sci Biog (Scribner, in press for 2007)
1 in Amer Assn State Geologists Centennial Volume (in press for 2008)
Updated -11/09/07
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