[Notes on Papua New Guinea]

By

Van Deusen, Hobart M.

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1938-1939)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[1953]

Notes

Handwritten in spiral notebook.

Various notes kept by Van Deusen, estimated from the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, including some local language terms, a list of native personnel, some specimen notes and first aid directions. Also includes a key for notations regarding specimen coloration and a reference species tally for Mt. Simpson, Mt. Mur, the Maneao (Maneau) Range and Mt. Orian. The expedition focused on the Cape Vogel Peninsula of Papua New Guinea and particularly Mt. Dayman in the Maneau Range. Also contains one sketch of the Tubuai Islands.

Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

1953) , Archbold Expedition to New Guinea , Description and travel , Field notes , Mammals , Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) , Papua New Guinea , Scientific Expeditions , Travel , Van Deusen, Hobart M

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142846
OCLC: 972337251
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51416082