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Scientific expeditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

American Museum of Natural History annual report summaries from Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner, 1908-1932.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 156
Abstract

Summaries written by Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner for AMNH annual reports. Topics include new installations to AMNH exhibit halls, including the Darwin Hall, expedition summaries, research and publications, specimen collections and accessions. Also includes a five-page timeline of expeditions and field work from 1909-1932.

Dates: 1908 - 1932

American Museum of Natural History duplicate slides of field photographs, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 438
Abstract

Duplicate film slides taken from hand-colored lantern slides, field photographs from an expedition. Includes image of expedition route in the areas of Cambodia, Siam, Laos, Annam, Cochinchina and Tonkin.

Dates: undated

[Antarctic Mural]

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 625

Archbold Expeditions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn197
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, field catalogs and bird lists.

Dates: 1929-1967

T. Donald Carter field books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C376
Scope and Contents The collection includes diaries and field notebooks from the 1927-1928 Day Roraima Expedition, the 1931-1932 Legendre Indochina Expedition, and the 1934 Sage West China Expedition, as well as material on the 1946-1947 Rutherford African Expedition. There are also diaries labeled by location and year(s): Costa Rica 1914; Abyssinia 1927-1929; Africa 1938; East Africa 1958; and Ungava, Québec 1953; and some yearly diaries. Carter participated in 27 expeditions in North and South America,...
Dates: 1910-1972

T. Donald Carter photographic print collection

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .C37
Scope and Contents

The T. Donald Carter photo print collection includes prints from his AMNH expeditions to Roraima, Indo-China, West China and Abyssinia. Also included are two boxes of personal and family photographs. Some of the images are captioned on the verso. Personal and family photographs which were mounted may have descriptive captions on the back.

Dates: 1927-1934

Cerro de la Neblina Expedition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 1
Scope and Contents

Field photographs from the 1984-1985 Cerro de la Neblina expedition. Includes one slide from Amazonas, Rio Mavaca Base Camp, March 1989.

Dates: 1984-1989