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Exist Dates: 1979
Abstract: To study visual mimicryand explore a previously unstudied, and probably important region in New Guinea

Abstract: THOMAS LINDSAY MACMILLAN was born in 1906 on Tanna, an island in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) to an Australian father who was a doctor and missionary on the island. He spent most of his life in this island group and Australia, working as a farmer, managing a mission, and for five years as leader of the American Museum of Natural History Whitney South Sea Expedition. For the Whitney South Sea Expedition, he explored and collected in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides island groups.

Exist Dates: 1951
Abstract: To make comparative studies between Australians and aborigines vis-a-vis early American culture

Exist Dates: 1889 April 16 - 1944 April 5
Abstract: Henry Cushier Raven, (born April 16, 1889, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. -- died April 4, 1944), was an expert scientific illustrator, taxidermist, and collector of essential expedition specimens for several of the top natural history institutions in the United States, including Columbia University, Cornell University, Colorado Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Museum of Natural History. His research and species data collecting brought him all over the world, resulting in the acquisition of hundreds of physical specimens (resulting in many dissection illustrations) as well as copious photographic and moving-picture evidence of their natural movement and habitats.

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