Archives West Finding Aid

The collection contains professional correspondence, paleobotany research, mounted botany specimens, manuscripts and published material, Carnegie Institution research work material, Berkeley faculty material including lectures, correspondence, and committee work, Save the Redwoods League files, manuscripts of books and articles, and photographs.

The professional correspondence is alphabetically arranged and is substantial, with over 12,000 letters filling four boxes. Please see below for a listing of major correspondents.

The Berkeley series (1921-1962) covers the time Chaney was working at UC Berkeley both as a professor and prior to that, as a research associate of the Carnegie Institute. Material is organized alphabetically by subject/project title and includes correspondence, committee work, research grant material, student activities and recommendations, reports and official documents.

The Carnegie series (1918-1960) is alphabetically arranged by subject title and contains expedition work materials, correspondence, reports, expense accounts, and lecture material.

Save the Redwoods League (1926-1966) materials include correspondence, research material, drafts, and published copies of reports, press releases, and other publications.

The manuscripts series contains paleobotany research, notes, drafts, and some publication copies of works by Chaney, as well as presentation and speech manuscripts, 1910-1967.

A small box houses mounted botany specimens with title, location found and date information.

The photograph series contains over a thousand images and negatives of botany and fossil specimens from the 1920s-1950s.

Major correspondents in the collection are: Annie M. Alexander, American Philosophical Society, Roy Chapman Andrews, Chester A. Arnold, Daniel I. Axelrod, Irving W. Bailey, , George B. Barbour, Edson S. Bastin, Charles P. Berkey, Eliot Blackwelder, Roland W. Brown, John P. Buwalda, Wendell H. Camp, Frederic E. Clements, Carlton Condit, Harold J. Cook, Luther S. Cressman, Helmut DeTerra, Erling Dorf, A. E. Douglass, Newton B. Drury, Roy B. Earling, Max K. Elias, Saido Endo, Louise Fillman, Rudolf Florin, Childs Frick, Eustace L. Furlong, Walter M. Gilbert, Waldo S. Glock, Winifred Goldring, T. Harper Goodspeed, Walter Granger, Joseph T. Gregory, Irving M. Grey, Joseph Grinnel, Edwin T. Hodge, Hsen-Hsu Hu, Olaf P. Jenkins, Willis L. Jepson, George F. Kay, Franz Kirchheimer, Frank H. Knowlton, African N. Kryshtofovich, Rajendra N. Lakhanpal, George D. Louderback, , Harry D. McGinitie, Arnold C. Mason, F. E. Matthes, Charles W. Merriam, John C. Merriam, Elmer D. Merrill, Shigeru Miki, Harold N. Moldenke, Chester W. Nimitz, Adolf C. Noe, Asbjorn P. Ousdal, Adolph Pabst, Earl L. Packard, Leroy T. Patton, Wendell G. Phillips, Charles B. Read, Alfred Rehder, George B. Rigg, Carl P. Russell, Birbal Sahni, Ethel Sanborn, Yasuo Sasa, Hubert G. Schenk, Robert H. Seashore, William A. Setchell, Albert C. Seward, J. Arnold Shotwell, George G. Simpson, Warren D. Smith, Herman A. Spoehr, Chester Stock, J. Leighton Stuart, R. D. Swales, V. O. Tansey, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur C. Trowbridge, T. Wayland Vaughan, Stephen S. Vischer, Charles E. Weaver, Chester K. Wentworth, Alexander Wetmore, David White, George R. Wieland, Jack A. Wolfe.