New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research
Dates
- Existence: 1916 - 1964
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
[Fiddler crabs], circa 1955-1966
Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behaviour and ecology of Uca marionis crabs in an unidentified location. "Sina Marionis"--Original can label. "Annual meeting. Uca (pre....) bow (triangle symbol"--Note found inside the can. The name Uca marionis is no longer recognized; these are likely Gelasimus excisus.
[Fiddler crabs in Australia and the Philippines], circa 1955-1956
[Fiddler crabs in Singapore, Venezuela, and Zanzibar], circa 1950-1957
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.
Galapagos lecture III [including footage from Noma (1923) and Arcturus (1925) expeditions), 1923 - 1925
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls I], 1936
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.
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls II], 1936
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls III], 1936
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.
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: New falls], 1936
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.
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: ocelot and tayra], 1936
An ocelot [dwarf leopard] 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.
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Sugar boat on Canje River], 1936
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.
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- Archival Object 63
- Collection 15
- Subject
- Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 7
- Bathysphere 4
- Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Galapagos Islands 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Tropics 3
- Amphibians -- Venezuela 2
- Birds -- Venezuela 2
- Fishes -- Catalogs and collections 2
- Invertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 2
- Mammals -- Venezuela 2
- Reptiles -- Venezuela 2
- Scientific expeditions 2
- Scientific expeditions -- California, Gulf of (Mexico) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Guyana 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Peru Current 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Sargasso Sea 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela 2
- Submersibles 2
- Wildlife conservation 2
- Amphibians -- Guyana 1
- Amphibians -- Trinidad 1
- Arima (Trinidad and Tobago) 1
- Bats -- Venezuela 1
- Biological illustration 1
- Birds -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Birds -- Guyana 1
- Birds -- Trinidad 1
- Butterflies -- Venezuela 1
- Fishes -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Fishes -- Guyana 1
- Fishes -- Trinidad 1
- Fishes -- Venezuela 1
- Fishes -- West Indies 1
- Ichthyologists 1
- Insects -- Trinidad 1
- Insects -- Venezuela 1
- Invertebrates -- Identification 1
- Mammals -- Guyana 1
- Mammals -- Trinidad 1
- Marine animals -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Marine laboratories 1
- Meteorology -- Observations -- Trinidad 1
- Moths -- Venezuela 1
- Oceanographic submersibles 1
- Parque Nacional Henri Pittier (Venezuela) 1
- Public aquariums 1
- Public aquariums -- Administration 1
- Public aquariums -- Design and construction 1
- Reptiles -- Guyana 1
- Reptiles -- Trinidad 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Haiti 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Pacific Ocean 1
- Scientific expeditions -- West Indies 1
- Syrinx (Bird anatomy) 1
- Tropics -- Research 1
- Underwater exploration 1
- Vertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 1
- Vertebrates -- Identification 1
- Wildlife art 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Africa 1
- Wildlife conservationists 1
- Wildlife research 1
- Zoo exhibits 1
- Zoos -- Administration 1
- Zoos -- Design and construction 1
- Zoos -- Employees 1 ∧ less