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Between 1916 and 1922 and again in 1924, the DTR worked out of field stations in British Guiana. These included Kalacoon, the first DTR field station, in 1916 and 1917, and a field station at Kartabo, where the DTR worked from 1919 to 1922 and in 1924. This subseries includes illustrations known to be by Isabel Cooper and Helen Damrosch Tee-Van; it is likely that some of the illustrations are also by Rachel Hartley, Paul Griswold Howes, and Anna Taylor.

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3 illustrations.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Arcturus Expedition is considered the DTR’s first official oceanographic expedition. In 1925, the staff embarked on a six-month cruise aboard the Arcturus to investigate the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Humboldt Current in the Pacific Ocean. Additional work was conducted in the Hudson Canyon (or Hudson Gorge, as the DTR referred to it), off the coast of New York. This subseries includes illustrations known to be by Isabel Cooper, Donald...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Arcturus Expedition is considered the DTR’s first official oceanographic expedition. In 1925, the staff embarked on a six-month cruise aboard the Arcturus to investigate the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Humboldt Current in the Pacific Ocean. Additional work was conducted in the Hudson Canyon (or Hudson Gorge, as the DTR referred to it), off the coast of New York. This subseries includes illustrations known to be by Isabel Cooper, Donald...

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2 unnumbered illustrations.

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1 illustration.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Between 1929 and 1940, the DTR made several expeditions to Bermuda (specifically in the years 1929-1935, 1937, 1939, and 1940). They conducted intensive ecological investigations within well-defined areas of deep-sea and shore zones and undertook record-breaking deep-sea explorations with a manned submersible called the Bathysphere. This subseries includes illustrations known to be by Else Bostelmann, E. J. Geske, Llewellyn Miller, George Swanson, and Helen Damrosch Tee-Van. Notable among...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The diesel schooner Zaca, owned by Templeton Crocker, was placed at the DTR’s disposal for two expeditions. Between March and May 1936, the DTR was engaged in the Templeton Crocker Expedition; the trip consisted of observations, deep sea trawling, and dredging operations on the Pacific Coast of Lower California from San Diego to Clarion Island and Cabo San Lucas, and in the Gulf of California. The second trip, the Eastern Pacific Zaca Expedition between November 1937...

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2 illustrations.

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In 1950, the DTR established Simla, its final field station, in Trinidad’s Arima Valley. This subseries includes illustrations known to be by Douglas Boyden. Many of the illustrations depict plants and insects, particularly butterflies. Notable within this subseries are 24 paintings of fungi by Boyden.