Eyerdam, Walter J. (Walter Jakob), 1892-1974
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology correspondence and administrative records, 1917-1989.
Collection
Identifier: DR 138
Journal of Walter J. Eyerdam, 1929 - 1930
Item — Volume: U
Identifier: Archives Orn60
Scope and Contents
Journal entries with observations from Eyerdam's time collecting on the Whitney South Sea Expedition from 1929 to 1930. These notes were compiled and edited into this volume from original material by Museum personnel. During this time, he collected specimens from various locales in Melanesia including Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Eyerdam had a particular interest in the collecting of shells.
August 17, 1929 - July 10, 1930
Dates:
1929 - 1930
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn60
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bound volumes, notes, correspondence, photographs, log books and journals. The material has been arranged into three series. The collection is largely comprised of thirty-three Bound Volumes (Series I) that contain letters and journal entries written by the field researchers that participated in the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Many of these bound volumes store additional material including hand-drawn maps, specimen sketches, photographs and a few handwritten...
Dates:
1920-2007
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192