Curtis, Charles Cutler

Scope and Contents

Field notes and observations during Curtis's time as field assistant. Curtis was an overseer of a coconut plantation in Tahiti who joined the expedition and helped collect specimens from various islands in Polynesia including the Marquesas, the Society Islands, the Austral Islands, and the Pitcairn Islands.

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...