Robert P. Higgins Papers : field data, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, United States, Australia, Spain, Namibia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Chile, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Polynesia, South Atlantic Ocean, 1958-1960, 1963, 1980-1986, 1988-1993

Related Titles

Contained In: Robert P. Higgins Papers, 1957-1960, 1963-1965, 1968, 1972, 1976-1993

Series: SIA Acc. 17-105

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Higgins, Robert P.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1958-1960, 1963, 1980-1986, 1988-1993

Notes

Robert P. Higgins, born in 1932, is an invertebrate zoologist who held various positions at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History, 1968-1996. The Smithsonian Institution Archives house field notes that document his collecting trips around the world.This field book is constituted of cards on field trips to the former USSR, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, United States, Australia, Spain, Namibia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Chile, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Polynesia, and the South Atlantic Ocean. The cards are forms, all checked as "logged" and each with an accession number, in which were filled, in various hands, rubrics including a station number, location, depth, sampling method, collector name, name of specimens.

Subjects

Atlantic Ocean , Australia , Brazil , Chile , Field notes , Higgins, Robert P , Hong Kong , Indian Ocean , Japan , Marine biology , Marine invertebrates , Mediterranean Sea , Namibia , National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) , Papua New Guinea , Polynesia , Smithsonian Institution , Soviet Union , Spain , United States , Zoology

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141025