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New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1916 - 1964

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research additional records

 Collection
Identifier: 1016
Abstract This collection consists of records related to the work of the New York Zoological Society’s Department of Tropical Research, which conducted ecological expeditions between 1916 and 1964. These records appear to have been transferred to the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives after the primary DTR collections were processed, and they supplement those collections (WCS Archives Collections 1005A-1005J). The majority of the records were created by DTR Director William Beebe and Assistant...
Dates: circa 1916-1964; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1949

New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Research Associate. Gloria Hollister Anable papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1006
Abstract Gloria Hollister Anable, nee Gloria Hollister, was a naturalist and ichthyologist who, from 1928-1941, was employed as a Research Associate under Dr. William Beebe in the New York Zoological Society’s Department of Tropical Research. As a Research Assistant, she specialized in preparing ichthyological specimens, and she developed a new technique for preparing fish specimens in which the skin and internal organs of the fish were made transparent, rendering their skeletons far more useful for...
Dates: 1914 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1947

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago X

Additional filters:

Subject
Bathysphere 2
Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 2
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 2
Amphibians -- Trinidad 1
Arima (Trinidad and Tobago) 1