Haiti, 1927

This collection spans the extent of Department of Tropical Research history and activities (1900-1971) and contains a wide range of materials, including correspondence, expedition reports, guest books, specimen catalogues, and catalogues of motion pictures and illustration. Correspondence includes chiefly letters written to and from William Beebe from various individuals working at such scholarly institutions as the Chicago National History Museum, The American National History Museum, The United States Smithsonian Institute, University of Texas (Department of Zoology). There are also expedition reports from territories outside the U. S. beginning with British Guiana, 1916-1924, and expanding to include various territories in Columbia, Trinidad, Bermuda, Panama, and Venezuela, 1941-1965. The reports document animal specimens, gifts to outside institutions, acquisitions, and education and research efforts, 1916-1924 and 1941-1965. Guest books date from 1916-1971, and they record the names of visitors to the field stations in Kartabo, British Guiana, Bermuda, Nonsuch, Venezeula, and Simla. Additionally, there are specimen catalogs for vertebrates and invertebrates spanning from 1916 to 1958. The collection also includes catalogs of color plates and drawings 1919-1938, film indices circa 1940, and two boxes of specimen index file cards.