Title
Robert Tucker Abbott, Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (NAMRU-2), Guam Island, Pacific Navy War trip, station numbers 105-256, April-October 1945
Title Variants
Alternative:
R. T. Abbott : field record book, April-October 1945, sta. nos. 105-256 (NAMRU-2)
Related Titles
Contained In:
National Museum of Natural History (U. S.), Department of Invertebrate Zoology, curatorial records, 1893-1969
Series:
SIA Acc. 16-315
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Abbott, R. Tucker (Robert Tucker), 1919-1995
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1945
Notes
R. T. Abbott was a medical malacologist. He became Assistant Curator and Associate Curator of the Department of Mollusks. He was a Navy bomber pilot during WWII, and later joined the Naval Medical Research Unit to study schistosomiasis, a disease affecting troops in the Pacific.This field book includes lists of stations and their numbers, with notes and drawings, for Abbott's field trip to Guam Island during a Pacific War trip. the stations are numbered 105-256 and the field notes are dated from April 13 to October 26, 1945.
Subjects
(Robert Tucker),
,
1919-1995
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Abbott, R. Tucker
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Division of Mollusks
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Field notes
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Guam Island
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Mollusks--Pacific Ocean
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
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Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2
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Pacific Ocean
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Schistosoma
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schistosomiasis
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United States
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142155
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