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Last update of repository: 17 March 2020

Gosudarstvennyi Darvinovskii muzei (GDM)


Sektor arkhivnykh fondov Spravochno-bibliograficheskogo otdela
[Sector of Archival Fonds of the Reference-Bibliographical Division]

Website: http://www.darwinmuseum.ru/pages/koll...

Opening hours: by appointment

Chief of the Reference-Bibliographical Division: Varvara Vladimirovna Mironova (tel. +7 499 783-56-67); e-mail [email protected]

Chief of the Sector of Archival Documents: Petr Aleksandrovich Pliutto (tel. +7 499 783-56-67); e-mail [email protected]


Holdings

Total: 15,000 units; 2d half 19th c.–1992
photographs—5,000 (1890s–1986); films—435 (1930s–1986)

This sector of the museum contains the personal papers of the biologists A.F. Kots, N.N. Ladygina-Kots, A.A. Paramonov, and P.P. Smolin. They include scientific works on animal psychology, Darwinism, and the study and administration of museums, as well as correspondence with leading scholars throughout the world. There are also photographic copies of letters written by the Russian biologist V.O. Kovalevskii to Charles Darwin, and letters written by Darwin and his relatives.
        Photographs illustrate the history of the museum with pictures of various exhibitions that have been held since its founding. There are many photographs of biological species and pictures taken of animals in their natural habitat. There are also photographs of, and those collected by, the biologists V.A. Vagner, Thomas Huxley, N.K. Kol'tsov, and Konrad Lorenz.
        The museum has films on the behaviour of anthropoid apes and their study by the American biologist Roberta Yorks.


Working conditions:
There is a special reading room for researchers.

Reference facilities:
There are card catalogues covering the archival materials and the photographs.

Copy facilities:
Facilicities are available for xerox copies.


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