National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology Search this
Extent:
9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Picture postcards
Clippings
Field notes
Maps
Sketches
Black-and-white photographs
Color photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Color transparencies
Date:
1937-2005
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of files created and maintained by Frederick M. Bayer, Zoologist Emeritus. Bayer came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1947 as a research zoologist
specializing in taxonomy, zoogeography, and mineralogy of Octocorallia (soft corals). These materials consist of correspondence, subject files, field notes, photographs, negatives,
and glass slides.