Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926)

Exist Dates

1926

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

To secure reptile specimens (Komodo Dragon)

Personnel: Burden, Douglas, leader; Dunn, E.R., sci.; Defosse, F.J., a hunter from Indo-China, and Lee Fai, a camera-man from Singapore. Mrs. Burden, photog. (photos and movies)

Department: Dept. of Reptiles and Ampnibians

Sponsors: Burden, Douglas B., Trustee

Sources: AR, No. 58, 1926, p. 7, 61\62; NH, XXVI, 5, Sept-Oct., 1926, p. 547; XXVII, 1, Jan-Feb, 1927, pp. 3-18; Novitates 286 (1927), Results of the Douglas Burden Expedition to the Island of Komodo (5 parts); Burden, Douglas. Dragon Lizards of Komodo, An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies. Putnam, 1927

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