Lerner Bimini Expedition (1937)

Exist Dates

1937

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

To study anatomy and habits of local fishes, particularly marlin and dissect specimens, painted color sketches and took photographs; for a new group in the Hall of Fishes.

Summary

Sites visited: Bimini, West Indies

Personnel: Lerner, Michael, leader; La Monte, F., sci.; Conrad, G.Miles, sci.; Ferraglio, Ludwig, sci.

Department of Living and Extinct Fishes; Department of Comparative and Human Anatomy; Department of Preparation and Installation

Sponsors: Lerner, Michael.

See also Lerner Expeditions in 1936, 1938, and 1939.

Resources available in AMNH Special Collections: Photo and moving image documentation.

Sources

AMNH Annual Report No. 69, 1937, page 53,54.

Natural History magazine, XL, Sept. 1937, page 535 and December 1937, page 762-766

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

Lerner, Michael
Leader

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