American Museum of Natural History Research Library: Search Results

Filters

PlaceEntry: Asia, Central

1 to 2 of 2 total results.

Exist Dates: 1883 November 18 - 1969 March 16
Abstract: James Lippitt Clark (1883 – 1969) was an accomplished animal sculptor, taxidermist, explorer and big-game hunter. Clark was employed by the American Museum of Natural History from 1902 to 1908, and again from 1923 to 1949, and served as the museum’s Director of Arts, Preparation and Installation from 1935 until his retirement. Clark is known for his innovations in specimen preparation and display, his creative direction of the museum’s mammal halls, and for his role in several expeditions on behalf of the museum, both within North America and to remote regions of Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.

Exist Dates: 1886 January 3 - 1958 January 24
Abstract: William James Morden was born in Chicago, Ill. on January 3, 1886 to a wealthy family with a railroad business. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1908 with an advanced degree in engineering, which he put to use while working for his family’s company before serving as a lieutenant in the Army Engineers Corps in France during WWI. Morden began his life as an explorer in 1921 when he took off on his first journey, an AMNH expedition to the Yukon Territory. Four major expeditions followed which were also under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. These included voyages to central Asia for the Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition in 1926 and the Morden-Graves Expedition in 1929-1930, and to Africa for the Morden African Expedition in 1922-1923 and for another expedition conducted 1947 and again in 1953.

1 to 2 of 2 total results.