Wildlife Conservation Society

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.

Scope and Contents The majority of this reel was shot on the 1925 Arcturus Galapagos expedition; there is also some material from the 1923 Noma Arcturus Galapagos expedition. “Isabel [Cooper] painting underwater. Moorish idol and moray eel. [Hunting a giant manta ray. Bringing manta ray on deck. Examining and sketching it.] Frigate [birds] courting. Frigate, normal and slow flight. Sea lions [swimming.] Sea lions; Noma, Ruth [Rose]. Sea lions; Arcturus, Don [Dickerman]”--Beebe film catalog circa 1940, P25....

Scope and Contents Rare 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. Standing in open water, Hollister holds Trumps up to water glass in order to view content of water below the surface. Flying fish fishing at Bathsheba in Barbados viewed from boats wherein crews are shown using hook-and-line and nets to catch fish. Deep hulled sailboats seen on water from...

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Footage shot during the twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, which was led by Gloria Hollister. Hoatzin chicks in a nest and hopping on tree branches. A close up of a pair of hands, extending the unique wing claws at the end of a fledgling hoatzin's wings. Adult hoatzins perching in trees. Landscape footage shot from a boat on the river. Local men rowing boats on the river.

Scope and Contents Compilation of footage twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, led by Gloria Hollister. “Kaieteur Falls, British Guiana”— Original can label. Falls from a nearby cliff. Various shots of boats and scenery on a river. Various aerial shots of falls, rivers, creeks and the countryside taken from a plane. Gloria Hollister in an airplane. DTR staff walking on a trail to boats docked on a river. Medium range shots of local people on rowboats and local people carrying packs...

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Compilation of footage twenty-third expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, led by Gloria Hollister. Aerial shots of the Kaieteur Falls and various river landscapes shot from a boat.

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Two wide-angle aerial shots of a waterfall, or waterfalls, of the Potaro River at Kaieteur plateau, British Guiana. According to Gloria Hollister's description of the DTR's twenty-third expedition in 1936, motion picture film and still photography were taken from a Wasp-Ireland amphibious plane. Additional waterfalls were filmed at King Edward VIII Falls.

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An ocelot plays with a person wearing a zookeeper's uniform hat and holding a stick, outdoors on a lawn. A tayra in an interior, concrete area is fed a banana and gripped at the nape by a person wearing a keeper's uniform pants. An ocelot and a tayra were among the specimens brought to the Bronx Zoo from the Department of Tropical Research's twenty-third expedition in 1936.

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A tracking shot, viewed from a boat in motion, of the cargo sailing vessel "Kindly Light," originating from Ipswich. Canje Creek was a route taken on the Department of Tropical Research's twenty-third expedition in early May, 1936.