Details - [Field catalog, Whitney South Sea Expedition]

[Field catalog, Whitney South Sea Expedition]

Title

[Field catalog, Whitney South Sea Expedition]

By

Hamlin, Hannibal, 1904-1982

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection.
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[1928-1929]

Notes

Handwritten in pencil; sheets likely taken from a carbon copy notebook.

Data includes type, sex, specimen number, and general notes for specimens collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition while in Papua New Guinea between October 1928 and March 1929. Locations cited are in the Louisiade Archipelago, DEntrecasteaux Island group, Trobriand Islands and Woodlark Island. Also includes notes concerning unlabeled material, shipments, separate numbering of contraband skins and criticism of the labeling done in his absence. Entries vary in specificity. Hannibal Hamlin was an American neurosurgeon who traveled with the Whitney South Sea Expedition beginning in 1927. After original leader Rollo Beck retired, Hamlin was appointed leader of the expedition from March 1928 until January 1930. He left the expedition in August 1930.

Specimen numbers 35600 to 36982. Details of number spans 36084 to 36457 and 36904 to 36982 can be found on separate contraband skin lists.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.