Crane, Jocelyn

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Edited film likely presented at an NYZS Annual Meeting. William Beebe greeting a visitor to Simla. Jocelyn Crane working in an insectary at Simla. Various examples of the trials conducted with butterflies to study color preferences and behavior. Macro photographic field studies of caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. "A Newsletter in pictures from the Trinidad Field station of the Department of Tropical Research. Photography by Rosemary Kenedy"--Film credits.

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Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Uca marionis crabs in an unidentified location. "Sina Marionis"--Original can label. "Annual meeting. Uca (pre....) bow (triangle symbol"--Note found inside the can. The name Uca marionis is no longer recognized; these are likely Gelasimus excisus.

Scope and Contents Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Uca marionis crabs in Australia and the Philippines taken on "the fifty-fourth, and fifty-sixth expedition of the Department of Tropical Research to the South Pacific by Jocelyn Crane, [part of] a five-year grant by the National Science Foundation for a worldwide study of Fiddler Crabs. It occupied two and a half months, and included Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Australia and the Philippines"-1955 and 1956 NYZS Annual...

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Jocelyn Crane's field studies of Uca marionis crabs in Singapore, Venezuela, and Zanzibar; close-up studies of the social behavior of crabs. The name Uca marionis is no longer recognized; these are likely Gelasimus excisus.

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Edited film presented at the 1952 NYZS Annual Meeting: Highlights from the forty-ninth expedition of the DTR. William Beebe with man who appears to be Laurance Rockefeller. Macro photography of various insects with local flora flowers; Jocelyn Crane performing studies with butterflies.

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Macro photography studies of "grasshopper (not eating), green beetle, gold, blue and white caterpillar, sphinx caterpillars on tree, pupa, Hel, chy. against dark sun and bee on stick"--Note in original can.

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Henry Fleming capturing moths. Studies of various insects, including moths and butterflies, capturing and eating prey. Footage of insects interspersed with footage Chiriqui the monkey harnessed to a stand while a human hands him insects to examine.

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Macro photography footage of various insects, mostly caterpillars, on flora.

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Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behavior and ecology of crabs in Pakistan and Tanzania. "Inversa, annulipes, lactea Karachi, and Zanzibar"--Original can label. "Sea 1. Karachi. ?inversa. Sea Karachi.? inversa; the annulipes and lactea. Afr 10. Zanzibar. Kombeni. annulipes. Afr 11. Zanzibar. Kombeni. annuli. Afr 23. Pemba. Kiburunzi. Annulipes"--Note in original can.

Abstract The Department of Tropical Research (DTR), founded by William Beebe, carried out intensive ecological investigations in terrestrial and oceanographic settings. This collection spans the extent of DTR history and activities and contains a wide range of materials, including correspondence, expedition reports, guest books, specimen catalogues, and catalogues of motion pictures and illustration. DTR staff represented within the records include Beebe, Jocelyn Crane, Gloria Hollister, and John...