Box Unit 2

Scope and Contents This reel contains three different Department of Tropical Research expeditions: 1) The Bathysphere, Bermuda [also #3]: "Animation, Bathysphere descent. Pulling in twisted hose and uncoiling. Hurricane on Nonsuch Island. Loading Bathysphere from the deck of Taifun, onto the [barge] Ready"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p41. "With Beebe and Barton on top. First testing of the Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from water. Second testing of Bathysphere - bailing out Bathysphere from...

Scope and Contents Fledgling hoatzin walking on a tree limb. "Gold boats. River. Canje Creek. Potaro Rapids. [Department of Tropical Research staff standing with local and possibly Indigenous people in front of post office.] [Indigenous people walking and] running on trail"--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, p37. "William Beebe cutting bromeliads. Pouring out golden frogs. Tadpoles on hand. Kaieteur Falls. [William Beebe] capturing a thirty [probably closer to 10] foot boa. William Beebe holding it for Isabel...

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Rare never before seen footage of the Department of Tropical Research in Bermuda and Barbados. Reel opens with Gloria Hollister inside of a lab preparing fish specimens and shows her out on location with her dog Trumps. "Hollister, Positive- not lecture. 1) GH and [ROH]Bermuda (Nitrate). 2)(not the best) Trumps with water glass. 3)Barbados Flying Fish Fishing at Bathsheba. #234 (GH-4)"--Original can label. Further description pending digitization; expected October 2024.

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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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Close up of the eyes of amphibians, and lizards eating butterflies. Motion studies of reptiles in trees.

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"Frogs, coral snake, caterpillar (sphinx). Moths at light, [...], ends with Macaw"--Note in original can. Henry Fleming's field experiments in attracting moths and butterflies. Contains some duplicate material from reel 104247 and 103945.

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Various footage, some and likely all from Venezuela. Footage includes William Beebe and a young man on a small sailboat, exterior shot of a building and grounds. Microphotographic shots of birds, insects, crabs on the the beach. A large land crabs climbing a tree, antlions, unidentified insects, Squilla mantis, unidentified fish.

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 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.

Scope and Contents Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Austruca lactea annulipes [Ring-legged fiddler crabs], a species of fiddler crabs that are found along the eastern coastline of Africa and the Indo-Pacific region. "AFR-26 Pemba food and chake hill annulipes. -J. crane" --Film leader "AFR Pemba. Chake chake. annul. Sp 1. Suva. lactea. SP 14. Manila lactea.(also marionis and Ilyoplax. SP Davao. (Madaum). Lactea. Sea 7. Kallong. lactea (rest of sequence in AM 1956 reel). all [ ]...