[Field notes]

Title Variants

Alternative: Hamlins 2contraband skins3 numbered 1-375 = nos. 3608436457

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]

Notes

Handwritten in pencil. Sheets likely taken from a carbon copy notebook.

Catalog of contraband skins collected by Hamlin in Papua New Guinea while on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Data includes type, sex, specimen number, location collected, general notes and some dating. Localities include the Louisiade Archipelago, D'Entrecasteaux group, the Trobriand Islands and Woodlark Island. Estimated date in late 1928 based on trip itinerary and other journals. 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 36084 through 36457, also numbered 1 through 375.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

(1920-1941) , 1904-1982 , Birds , Description and travel , Field notes , France (Schooner) , Hamlin, Hannibal, , Papua New Guinea , Scientific Expeditions , Travel , 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.129413
OCLC: 961274083
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51405131