The 1947 expedition to Vera Cruz, Mexico allowed Gordon Ekholm to spend five months study of Huastec culture throughout the Tuxpan Valley region. Ekholm studied eight archeological locations and excavated at the site of Tabuco.
In 1950 Gordon Ekholm participated in an archaeological survey of the Caribbean coast of Honduras, current day Belize and the adjacent Bay Islands. The results offered new insight into the early history of the region and the extension of prehistoric civilization through Central America. The survey project was supported by the Carnegie Institute of Washington and the Voss Fund.
To collect and take temperatures of snakes and lizards. Note other related
trips in this project from 1944-1951 are mentioned in AMNH AR #83,pp.
22-23.
Intensive surveys of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and their viruses and parasites, and to collect specimens, and influence public health policies. 7 weeks beginning September in Papua New Guinea (interior).
The mission of the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of the American Museum of
Natural History was to amass a collection of mammals and other animals that
represented the South Asian region. The work was begun with the 1923 expedition
and continued through 1929. The main participants were Col. John Champion
Faunthorpe and Arthur Stannard Vernay, two British men who were previously
unassociated with the Museum. Funding was provided by Vernay and the Jesup Fund
through the Department of Mammals. The Expedition took place primarily in India,
Burma, and Nepal, and added an invaluable collection to the Museum’s holdings.
The Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of South Asiatic Mammals, consisting of material
exclusively collected on these expeditions, opened on November 17, 1930.