Wortman Expeditions

Exist Dates

1891 - 1899

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

To collect living and fossil mammals in Northern New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, and Northern Texas.

Department: Department of Mammalian Paleontology

Personnel: Wortman, J.L., leader; Granger, Walter, sci.; Gidley, J.W., sci. (1899-1900)

Wortman left the Museum in 1899 to join the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh

Sources: AMNH Annual Report No. 24, p. 11. Bulletin , V. 4, 1892, pp.81-147 AMNH Annual Report No. 28, 1896, p. 17; Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. VIII, pp. 241-258; AMNH Annual Report No. 31, 1899, p. 19; American Museum Journal, I, 9-10, p. 140-145

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