Scientific expeditions
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
R. C. Murphy collection
Rollo Beck Expedition to New Guinea collection
Field catalog, journal and field notes, with notes by Mayr and Gilliard. Also includes correspondence and photographs.
Series 1: Field diaries, 1891-1998
Consist of diaries, lists of specimens found, locations of finds, records of day to day activities, and step by step findings.
Most of the diaries from the Central Asiatic Expedition were transferred to the main museum archive in the 1970's. The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archive holds copies of those diaries.
The diaries of the Frick Laboratory expeditions have been trasferred to VPA 108 Frick Laboratory Field Work.
Series 3: Field Work, 1875 - 1952
The papers in this series include expedition reports, photographs, and maps. A lot of the maps have annotations by Barnum Brown. There are some receipts from expedition expenses.
The scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca
Theodore Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition collection
Photographs, correspondence and George K. Cherrie's field notes on "River of Doubt" Expedition. Also includes press releases and clippings, and three books related to Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazillian Wilderness, 1925.
William Partridge collection
Notes, maps, lists of specimens, correspondence, and notecards relating to the 1961 Partridge, Humphrey, and Parkes Expedition to northeastern Argentina
Yellowstone Expedition records
Correspondence and memorandum created during AMNH expedition to Yellowstone.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192