Provenance
The Alexander Papers were given to The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, by Miss Alexander and/or her heirs in 19xx.

Funding
Funding for processing provided by the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Access
Collection is open for research at the Museum of Paleontology, with permission from the Museum Director. Contact Mark Goodwin for further information.

Publication Rights
Copyright has been assigned to The Museum of Paleontology. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director or the Principal Museum Scientist for forwarding. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Museum of Paleontology as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Size
Number of containers: 3 boxes, 1 volume
Linear feet: 1.2

Processed by
Helen E. Fox

Date Completed
August 1998

Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [collection name & number], University California Museum of Paleontology

Related Collection(s)
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, holds other papers of Miss Alexander's (Banc MSS 67/121C;CU-120; C-B 1003) as well as a biographical sketch of Miss Alexander (Banc MSS 69/15c).

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Collection contains correspondence between Annie M. Alexander and key figures in the Museum and Department of Paleontology from 1901 to 1949. Much of this correspondence consists of information about paleontological research in the field, of Miss Alexander and others. Further correspondence is with the President's Office and Museum and Department directors regarding personnel and organizational issues. Letters also cover financial information about Miss Alexander's support for individual researchers, and ultimately the endowment of the Museum of Paleontology.

Other correspondence of Miss Alexander can be found in collections of John C. Merriam and those relating to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Also included in the collection are Annual Reports and Budgets of the Department and Museum of Paleontology for the years 1906-1948, often with a letter to Miss Alexander accompanying the report.

A scrapbook documenting the 1905 Saurian Expedition to the Humbolt Range, Nevada is included, with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs.

Important correspondents include David Barrows, Charles Camp, William Wallace Campbell, Ralph Chaney, Bruce Clark, Eustace Furlong, William Matthew, John C. Merriam, Robert Sproul, Ruben Stirton, Chester Stock, Samuel Welles, and Benjamin Wheeler. The collection is not complete.

The papers are primarily professional in nature, although since Miss Alexander was personally involved with the workings of the Museum and Department of Paleontology, the correspondence includes personal matters as well.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1949

Boxes 1 and 2
Contain primarily letters, some post cards, photographs, newspaper clippings. Incoming and outgoing letters are interfiled and arranged alphabetically in the "miscellaneous" folder, and chronologically within major correspondent folders. Letters neither to nor from Miss Alexander are filed under the name of the original author, with the following exceptions: letters from Miss Alexander are filed by the receiver, as are letters whose author has no folder. If a duplicate copy for a third party is the sole copy in the collection, it is filed by the original author; if there is indeed a duplicate copy, it is filed in the third party's folder.

Container		Folder		Contents		Dates
Box 1		1		Miscellany, photographs, and news clipping		1980, n.d.
		2		AMA Miscellany, Correspondents with fewer than three letters, both incoming and outgoing, arranged alphabetically A-W		1910-1949
		3		Barrows, David Prescott		1919-1923
		4		Camp, Charles Lewis		1921-1933
		5		Camp, Charles Lewis		1934-1939
		6		Camp, Charles Lewis		1940-1948
		7		Camp, Jessie		1947-1948
		8		Campbell, William Wallace		1924-1929
		9		Chaney, Ralph W.		1931-1938
		10		Clark, Bruce Lawrence		1920-1923
		11		Clark, Bruce Lawrence		1924-1933, 1945
		12		Davidson, Pirie		1920-1928
		13		Deutsch, Monroe E.		1945
		14		Furlong, Eustace Leopold		1921-1926
Container		Folder		Contents		Dates
Box 2		1		Kinne, A. Marian		1930-1946
		2		MacDonald, J. R.		1948-1949
		3		Mallory, George D.		1946
		4		Mallot, Deane W.		1946-1947
		5		Massey, William C. and Ellen		1947-1949
		6		Matthew, William Diller		1924-1930
		7		Merriam, John Campbell		1901-1905
		8		Merriam, John Campbell		1908-1915
		9		Merriam, John Campbell		1916-1930, 1939
		10		Nichols, Luther A.		1931-1934
		11		Osborn, Henry Fairfield		1920, 1924
		12		Reinhart, Roy H.		1949
		13		Sproul, Robert Gordon		1921-1949
		14		Stirton, Ruben Arthur		1930-1945
		15		Stirton, Ruben Arthur		1946-1949
		16		Stock, Chester		192?-1925, 1949
		17		VanderHoof, V. L.		1949
		18		Welles, Samuel P.		1930-1949
		19		Wheeler, Benjamin Ide		1903-1919

Series 2: Administrative and Financial Records of the Department and Museum of Paleontology, 1906-1948

Box 3
Arranged chronologically. Contains Annual Reports and Financial Statements, and other statements, objectives, and reports of the Museum and Department of Paleontology, and official papers regarding the Museum of Paleontology Endowment Fund.

Container		Folder		Contents		Dates
Box 3		1		Museum of Paleontology, Dept. of Paleontology, Statements, Objectives, Reports		192?-194?
		2		Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Dept. of Paleontology, Merriam to AMA		1906-1915
		3		Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Dept. of Paleontology, Merriam to AMA, Clark to AMA (1921)		1916-1920, 1921
		4		Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Budgets Museum of Paleontology		1921-24, 1927-29, 1930-32
		5		Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Budgets Museum of Paleontology		1932-33-1948
		6		Museum of Paleontology Endowment Fund, official papers		1934-1948

Container		Contents		Dates
Volume 1		A scrapbook documenting the 1905 Saurian Expedition to the Humbolt Range, Nevada, with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs.		1905