ASKOY Expedition Material (Exhibition)

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1941 July 17 - 1941 August 15

Biographical or Historical Note

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Exhibition. Opened July 17, 1941 and closed August 15, 1941. Located in the Main Lobby at the American Museum of Natural History. ASKOY Expedition Material featured equipment used and material collected on the ASKOY Expedition (1941-1945) led by Robert Cushman Murphy.

Summary

ASKOY Expedition Material, held in the Museum's Main Lobby, demonstrated how expedition field work was conducted and featured equipment used and material collected in early 1941 on the ASKOY Expedition (1941-1945) led by Robert Cushman Murphy, the Museum's Curator of Oceanic Birds. The expedition covered 4,000 miles in the Pacific and 600 miles of coastlines from the Gulf of Panama to western Ecuador and brought back "complete, detailed natural history and oceanographic records of life in this little known part of the world (1, p. 1)."

Equipment and other items from the expedition on view included (1):

*Bathythermograph

*Plankton sampler

*Nets

*Thermometers

*Instruments for measuring atmospheric pressures

*Instruments for measuring sea water density

*Maps of the expedition's routes

*Expedition notebooks

Specimens collected during the expedition and on view in the exhibition included (1):

*Black tern

*Least petrel

*Sabine's gull

*Gray gulls

*Peruvian boobies

*Parkinson's petrel

*Fish, crustacea, shellfish, and other forms of ocean life

Thirty-five large photographs illustrated (1):

*The Ecuadorian and Colombian rain forests

*Expedition members at work

*Bird life

*Studies of Choco Indians of Colombia and Darien

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

    (1) American Museum of Natural History. Press Release. "ASKOY Expedition Material Exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History." July 17, 1941. Departmental Records. DR 101. American Museum of Natural History Library.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

ASKOY Expedition (1941-1945)
Exhibition featured material from expedition (1)
Murphy, Robert Cushman 1887-1973
Led ASKOY Expedition (1)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
"ASKOY Expedition Material Exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History." July 17, 1941.

Written by: Clare O'Dowd
Last modified: 2018 October 10


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