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Australian Meteorite Expedition

Exist Dates
1964
Abstract
To collect Australian tektites

Diamond Field Trip to New Guinea and Australia

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

Gould Second Field Trip to Australia

Exist Dates
1968
Abstract
To study archaeological remains and culture

Macmillan, Lindsay

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.

Mead Australian Field Trip

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

Moore Expedition to Australia

Exist Dates
1952
Abstract
To make ecological and embryological studies of amphibians

Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944

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.

Spalding-Hosmer Expedition (1960)

Exist Dates
1961
Abstract
To collect amphibians and reptiles of Australia
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