Dates and Events and Visits to Decker Island 
Dates of Visit or 
Event 
Personnel Remarks Source 
1917 
H.L. Tucker and On excursion to the island took a large number of Emory (1928) 
party photographs that are now on file in the Bishop 
Museum. 
Oct. 6 ,1919 
Gerrit P. Wilder light-house tender Kukui. Collected an image leg Emory (1928) 
(warden of Hawa- and a reshaped image, 
iian Birds Reserv.) 
Feb. 3 ,1909 
Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation created. Emory (1928) 
Tanger Expedition 
June 12-15 ? 1923 
Landed at 8 n l5 a.m. and spent four days in topographic Emory (1928) 
mapping under the direction of Charles S. Judd and 
recording archaeological sites under the direction of 
June 21, 1923 
Bruce Cartwright. 
Tanger group discovered Bowl Cave and its interesting Emory (1928) 
June 29, 1923 
contents. Stayed on island for several hours. 
Last visit by Tanager group lasted a full day. Resulted Emory $1928) 
in production of a plane table base map, the recording 
of most of the maraes, and the collecting ef archae- 
July Ik, 192k 
ological specimens. 
Fourth and last visit by Tanger Exp. Spent three full Emory (1928) 
days recording the last of the runin. 
Tanager Expedition 
(Trip C) 
Trip C Personnel ® Alexander Wetmore, Edward L. Caum, Gregory, 1923 
David Thaanum, C. Grant, and Max Schlemmer Jr., Harold 
S. Palmer, geologist; Arthur C. Rice, collector of fish; 
A.L.C. Atkinson, President of the Hawaiian Board of 
Agriculture and Forestry, C.S. Judd, forester; W. G. 
Anderson, collector; Bruce Cartwright, assistant in 
hydrographic work; Edwin H. Bryan jr., entomologist; 
C. Montague Cooke, Jr,, malacologist. 
Tangger Expedition 
(Trip E) 
Trip E (July 1924-) Erling Christophersen, Bishop Museum Gregory, 1923 
Fellow, 1924-25, served as botanist makeing large 
collections of phanerograms, lichens, marine algae, and 
fresh water algae on Decker and Dihoa. 
