Box Unit 2
Contains 13 Results:
[Bathysphere, Bermuda; Arcturus; and Zaca expedition footage], circa 1925-1937
[Various footage from British Guiana], circa 1920-1924
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Flying fish fishing at Bathsheba Beach, Barbados], 1936
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.
[Insects at Caripito, Venezuela II], 1942
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.
[Various animals at Caripito and Rancho Grande, Venezuela V], 1942-1948
Close up of the eyes of amphibians, and lizards eating butterflies. Motion studies of reptiles in trees.
[Various animals at Caripito and Rancho Grande, Venezuela VI], 1942-1948
"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.
[Various footage, likely at Caripito and Rancho Grande, Venezuela], 1942-1948
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.
[Fiddler crabs in Australia and the Philippines], circa 1955-1956
[Inversed fiddler crabs and ring-legged fiddler crabs in Karachi and Pemba Island], circa 1955-1957
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.