[Whitney South Sea Expedition mammal catalogue]

By

Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1921 and 1930]

Notes

Handwritten on loose lined sheets.

Catalog of mammals collected between 1921 and 1930 by participants on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Information includes field catalog number, animal name, locations and dates. Locations include the Society Islands, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, British New Guinea, Samoa, the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz. Most of the location and date entries appear to have been added at a later date and are in a different hand. The Whitney Expeditions primary goal was to collect ornithological specimens in the islands of the South Pacific region.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

(1920-1941) , Description and travel , Field notes , Mammals , Melanesia , Polynesia , Scientific Expeditions , Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museu

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.143315
OCLC: 961272876
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51416763