Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1938-1939)

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1938 - 1939

Biographical or Historical Note

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Expedition. The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma was organized for the purpose of collecting zoological and botanical specimens for the AMNH, the New York Botanical Garden, the Kensington Museum of London (probably the British Museum of Natural History), Kew Gardens, and the Bombay Natural History Society. The international staff included co-leaders and AMNH trustees Arthur Stannard Vernay and Charles Suydam Cutting, AMNH mammalogist Harold E. Anthony, and British scientists J. K. Stanford, ornithologist, and F. Kingdon Ward, botanist. (From AMNH Research Library catalog record for Film Collection no. 167)

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960

Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970

Bombay Natural History Society

Cutting, C. Suydam (Charles Suydam), 1889-1972

Kingdon-Ward, F. (Francis), 1885-1958

New York Botanical Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Stanford, J. K. (John Keith), 1892-1971

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The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma
Creator: Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1938-1939) Extent: 1 film reel, 1 U-matic (25 minutes) Repository: AMNH Special Collections, Film Collection no. 167.

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