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Davis, Joseph Anthony, 1930-

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

New York Zoological Society. Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Joseph A. Davis records

 Fonds
Identifier: 1065
Abstract

The collection holds the administrative records of Joseph Anthony Davis, Jr. while he held the position of Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Davis started at the Bronx Zoo in the Mammalogy Department as an Assistant Curator in 1958 and eventually became Curator in 1962. In 1966 Davis moved to a position created for him in the General Director’s Office, Scientific Assistant to the Director (William Conway).

Dates: 1968 - 1974

[Sea otter, spider monkey, and baboon], 1965

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

Reel shot list: "Sea otter beating shell on chest. Mustelines - Otter - Joe Davis with otters, European otter swimming underwater.Order primates - family Cebidae - spider monkeys. Cercopithecoidea - baboons"--Original box label.

Dates: 1965

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