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New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Oceanographic expeditions. Antares and Hardi Biaou records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005H
Abstract
The New York Zoological Society's Department of Tropical Research collected data on marine life among the Leeward and Grenadine Islands from the yacht Antares during 1932. The following year, DTR Director William Beebe and other staff returned to the West Indies aboard the Antares. In 1936, the DTR gathered material during a West Indian cruise aboard the yacht Hardi Biaou. The records in this...
Dates:
1932 - 1936
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Oceanographic expeditions. Bermuda records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005J
Abstract
This collection consists of data, manuscript notes, and lists documenting the marine science activities of the Department of Tropical Research staff at Bermuda from 1929 through 1939. Included are trawling records, fish outlines, bird censuses. This collection also includes logbooks of notes dictated to Gloria Hollister by William Beebe via telephone from the bathysphere dives of 1930, 1931, and 1932; correspondence concerning the bathysphere, 1929-1930, from John H. J. Butler's office at...
Dates:
1929 - 1949
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Oceanographic expeditions. General records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005E
Abstract
This collection derives from many of the oceanographic expeditions of the Department of Tropical Research, between 1923 and 1957, led by William Beebe. It includes records created during the DTR's explorations in the depth of the sea with the submersible diving bell, the bathysphere. Documentation and disposition of marine specimens is a major topic. Study materials and miscellaneous correspondence are also included, with pediculates and other deep-sea fishes among the prominent subjects.
Dates:
1923-1957
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Terrestrial expeditions. Simla Station, Trinidad records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005D
Abstract
This collection consists of handwritten and typed notes and field observations, primarily by William Beebe, during the New York Zoological Society's Department of Tropical Research studies at Simla Station, Trinidad, between 1949 and 1961.
Dates:
1949 - 1961
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
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