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Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
[Field books of the Third Asiatic Expedition] : [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #42
Dates:
1922 - 1930
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 2
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
- Shackelford, James B. 2
- American Association of Museums 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
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- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
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