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Howland Wood Fonds
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- Source of title proper: Title based on creator of content in fonds.
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CA RBD MSG 63
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1929-1934 (Creation)
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- Wood, Howland, 1877-1938
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4 cm of textual records
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(1877-1938)
Biographical history
Numaticist and collector Howland Wood was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1877 and graduated from Brown University in 1900. Wood became a member of the American Numismatical Society in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938.
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Fonds contains forty-three letters to Casey A. Wood from Howland Wood describing the Gampala Larin hoard and the finding coins in Ceylon, 1929-1934.
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Also described in the McGill Libraries catalogue.
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Typescript originals.
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M60.Bd63
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72009587
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Described in American Numismatic Society" Numismatic Notes on Monographs" No.61.