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Ecuador Expeditions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn161
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and list of birds, departmental meeting minutes, summary of expenditures

Dates: 1912-1922

Geoffrey Gill field catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn151
Scope and Contents

Field catalog of birds collected in Ecuador.

Dates: 1921

George K. Cherrie collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn150
Scope and Contents

Field notes and catalogs from expeditionary work in Costa Rica, Haiti, the United States, Trinidad, India, the Himalayas and Turkestan, and most prominently in locations across South America, including the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition, correspondence, itemized packing lists, clippings

Dates: 1894-1925

George K. Cherrie correspondence, 1902 Jan. 9, 1903 Apr. 11

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C454
Scope and content The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters from Hartert, the first discussing Cherrie's collecting plans for an upcoming expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana, and the second evaluating the results. In the first letter, Hartert requests six specimens of every species of bird from Cayenne; eight of hummingbirds and swifts. Payment is discussed. Hartert says that Oldfield Thomas of the Natural History Museum (London, England) wants mammals from Cayenne, and stresses his own...
Dates: 1902 - 1903

The Captain Marshall Field Brazilian expedition

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 23
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Captain Marshall Field Brazilian Expedition to Brazil, 1926. This film record of the Field Museum of Natural History's 1926 Brazilian expedition, financed and led by Captain Marshall Field, presents expedition life as stylish and romantic. To enhance the mood, colored film stock was used intermittently, especially blue-green for waterways. The perseverance of the scientists in the face of difficulties encountered while collecting in the field is minimized; instead, the...
Dates: 1926

Theodore Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn89
Scope and Contents

Photographs, correspondence and George K. Cherrie's field notes on "River of Doubt" Expedition. Also includes press releases and clippings, and three books related to Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazillian Wilderness, 1925.

Dates: 1913-1916

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