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 Collection Overview Loomis, Frederic Brewster, b. 1873 Loomis Papers 1901-1936 2 archives boxes (1 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections The collection contains correspondence, typescripts and scientific articles related to biological and archaeological expeditions that Dr. Loomis made to Patagonia, South America, 1911-1912; the Big Badlands in South Dakota; the Wasatch Basin in Wyoming; Converse County in Wyoming; Sioux County in Nebraska; and other expeditions to Maine, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida. English. Biographical Note

Frederic Brewster Loomis, the son of Nathaniel H. And Julia R. (Brewster) Loomis, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1873, and was fitted for college at Rochester Free Academy, Rochester, N.Y., and Canandaigua Academy, Canandaigua, N.Y.

After graduation from Amherst College in 1896 he was an assistant in biology at Amherst, 1896-1897. He studied at the University of Munich, Germany, 1897-1899, where he received the degree of Ph.D. Returning to Amherst, he was instructor in biology at Amherst College, 1899-1904; associate professor, 1904-1908; professor of comparative anatomy, 1908-1918; and professor of mineralogy and geology, 1918-1937.

Dr. Loomis died of a cerebral hemorrhage, July 28, 1937 in Sitka, Alaska. The interment was in Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Dr. Loomis was the author of The Evolution of the Horse; Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonia Pampas; Deseado Formation of Patagonia; Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals; and Physiography of the United States. He also wrote many pamphlets on vertebrate palaentology.

Dr. Loomis was married in 1904 and had two children.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection contains correspondence, typescripts and scientific articles related to biological and archaeological expeditions that Dr. Loomis made to Patagonia, South America, 1911-1912; the Big Badlands in South Dakota; the Wasatch Basin in Wyoming; Converse County in Wyoming; Sioux County in Nebraska; and other expeditions to Maine, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida.

 Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into five series:

1. Correspondence 2. Typescripts 3. Printed Articles by Loomis, 1901-1936 4. Newspaper Clippings 5. Miscellaneous (notes, student papers and clippings) Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

There is no restriction on access to the Frederic Brewster Loomis Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Papers should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

 Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Frederic Brewster Loomis (AC 1896) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

 History of the Collection

The Papers were a gift from the Amherst College Geology Department c. 1971.

 Benjamin Ledsham '02 Peter A. Nelson, Assistant Archivist Search Terms Loomis, Frederic Brewster, b. 1873. Amherst College--Faculty. Geologists--Massachusetts--Amherst. Geologists--United States. Geology--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst. Geology--Arizona. Geology--Colorado. Geology--Florida. Geology--Maine. Geology--Nebraska--Sioux County. Geology--New Mexico. Geology--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Geology--South Dakota. Geology--Wyoming--Converse County. Amherst College. Class of 1896. Loomis. Additional Information Related Material

Scrapbook of an Expedition to Patagonia, 1911-1912. Scrapbooks Collection.

 Series 1 : Correspondence I 1 Letters from Loomis to John F. Genung; Harry W. Kidder n.d. I 2 Letters to Loomis concerning The Evolution of the Horse n.d. I 3 Letters to Loomis: A-Z n.d. Series 2 : Typescripts I 4 Economic Zoology , chapters 1-10 I 5 Economic Zoology , chapters 11-14 I 6 "My Fiftieth Year" I 7 "On the Shell Heaps of Maine" and reprint [from the Journal of Science , Vol. XXXIV, July, 1912] 1912 Jul I 8 A Proposal for a Joint Expedition of Amherst College, the American Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum Series 3 : Printed Articles by Loomis I 10 Definitions of the Phyla, Classes, and Orders of Chordata n.d. I 11 Directions for the Sophmore Laboratory Work , Amherst, Mass., 1901; Laboratory drawing Book "Stegomus Longpipes" [from the Journal of Science , Vol. XVII, May, 1904]. "Turtles from the Upper Harrison Beds" [From the Journal of Science , Vol. XXXVIII, July, 1909]. 1901-1909 I 12 "Ontogeny: The Study of the Value of Young Features in Determining the Phylogeny" [Reprint from the Popular Science Monthly , September, 1910]; "The Camels of the Harrison Beds, with Three New Species" [from the American Journal of Science , Vol. XXXI, January, 1911]; "New Mink from the Shell Heaps of Maine" [from the American Journal of Science , Vol. XXXI, March, 1911]; Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonian Pampas , Amherst College 1913. 1910-1913 I 13 The Deseado Formation of Patagonia , Amherst College, 1914. "A New Mosasaur from the Ft. Pierre." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XXXI, March 1911.] 1911, 1914 I 14 "Dr. Hitchcock and the Amherst Indian Collection" Amherst Graduate's Quarterly , June, 1915. "A Pleistocene Locality on Mount Desert Island, Maine" [from the American Journal of Science , Vol. XLII, November, 1916]. "An Unusual Mastadon." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XLV, June 1918.] "An Amphibian from the Eocene." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XLVII, March, 1919.] "On Ticholeptus Rusticus and the Genera of Oreadontidae." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. L, October, 1920.] "Postglacial Faulting About Mount Toby Massachusetts." [From Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 32, 1920.] "Oreddons of the Lower Harrison Beds." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. VI, September, 1923.] "Early Man in Florida." [Reprinted from the Natural History , XVI, No. 3, 1926, pp. 206-262.] 1915-1926 I 15 Report of the Phi Delta Theta Expedition of 1927, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. "The Giant Tortoise from Florida." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XIII, May, 1927.] "Phylogeny of the Deer." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XVI, December, 1928.] "Variations in the Species of Merycoidodon." From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XX, July, 1930. 1927-1930 I 16 Report of the Amherst Expedition of 1931 , Nebraska and Wyoming. "A New Oligocene Dog." [From the American Journal of Science , Vol. XXII, August, 1931.] "The Small Carnivores of the Miocene." [From the American Journal of Science , XXIV, October, 1932.] "Three Oreodont Skeletons from the Lower Miocene of the Great Plains." [Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Vol. 44, pp. 723-734.] 1931-1932 I 17 Outline for the Course on Man and His Environment , 1935. "Three New Miocene Dogs and Their Phylogeny." [Reprint for private circulation. Journal of Paleontology , Vol. 10, No. 1, January, 1936.] "Are Conodonts Gastropods?" [Reprint for private circulation. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 10, No. 7, October, 1936.] "The Skeleton of a New Fossil Camel from Wyoming." [Reprint from University of Wyoming Publication, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 59-64. May 1, 1936.] 1935-1936 Series 4 : Newspaper Clippings II 1 Newspaper clippings about Loomis and his work (expeditions) Series 5 : Miscellaneous II 2 Miscellaneous notes II 3 Newspaper clippings and map on "Oil in South Hadley" II 4 Four student papers, 1912 1912