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New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1916 - 1964

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

[Fiddler crabs], circa 1955-1966

 Item — Box: Unit 3, Shelf: D
Identifier: 104294
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1955-1966

[Fiddler crabs in Australia and the Philippines], circa 1955-1956

 Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Identifier: 103943
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...
Dates: circa 1955-1956

[Fiddler crabs in Singapore, Venezuela, and Zanzibar], circa 1950-1957

 Item — Box: Unit 1, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102594
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1950-1957

Galapagos lecture III [including footage from Noma (1923) and Arcturus (1925) expeditions), 1923 - 1925

 Item — Box: Unit 1, Shelf: A
Identifier: 103529
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....
Dates: 1923 - 1925

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Flying fish fishing at Bathsheba Beach, Barbados], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: F
Identifier: 104174
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...
Dates: 1936

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls I], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104787
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls II], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104722
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...
Dates: 1936

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Kaieteur Falls III], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104723
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: New falls], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104764
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936

[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: ocelot and tayra], 1936

 Item — Box: Unit 3, Shelf: F
Identifier: 104345
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936

Additional filters:

Type
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
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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
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