Nigrelli, Ross F., (Ross Franco), 1902-1989

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"Aquarium Exhibits and facilities original. Aquarium building, Bathysphere (1962) Aquarium flag, Outdoor Aquarium tanks and exhibits, Aquarium labs (1962), Dr. Nigrelli checking tanks, Bermuda fishing trip. 1964: Indoor shark, outdoor shark, sand dunes, plans for new labs, Labs, parking lot, Pound nets, sand dunes, Exhibits, Aquarium schooling tank. Seal island; Crowds + exhibits, Osborn labs, Aquarium Entrance + Osborn Labs, Night and Day Aquarium"--Original can label.

Scope and Contents Travelogue set in Bimini, Bahamas, featuring staff from the New York Zoological Society and the American Museum of Natural History. "The film opens with travelogue material before moving to the newly-opened Lerner Marine Laboratory. Shown are views of the Laboratory's grounds, the Lerners' yacht (the Playmate), and Helen Lerner fishing from a skiff. At the Laboratory, Lerner, AMNH paleontologist William King Gregory, and Ross Nigrelli of the New York Zoological Society, discuss various...

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NBC-TV Today Show episode segment featuring the work of the New York Aquarium Director Ross F. Nigrelli.

Abstract

The collection consists of materials from Ross F. Nigrelli, Director of the New York Aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences. It includes correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, reprints, and theses from Nigrelli's students.

Abstract The collection holds correspondence, administrative and operational records, subject files, and other materials from directors, curators, and other senior staff at the New York Aquarium. After a long closure, the New York Zoological Society [NYZS] reopened the New York Aquarium [NYA] in its new location on Coney Island in 1957, with Director Christopher W. Coates at the helm. Coates’s 1964 retirement, however, heralded the start of over a decade of high turnover for the Aquariums directors...

Abstract The collection holds records from the New York Aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences. The New York Aquarium, founded in 1896 and operated by the New York Zoological Society since 1902, was moved from its original Manhattan location in 1941. After an interlude at the Bronx Zoo, a new Aquarium opened in 1957 in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Aquarium’s research laboratories, which had also been moved offsite, reunited with the public Aquarium a decade later, in 1967. The...