Box 30

The materials document special projects Nixon Griffis worked on at the New York Aquarium, first in his position as Assistant to the Director and later as a trustee of the New York Zoological Society. Topics primarily include suggestions for Aquarium exhibits and collecting activity, especially of benthic and mesopelagic marine animals. A few files include correspondence and photographs from William Beebe’s former Bathysphere colleague Otis Barton.

Includes photographic reproductions of illustrations.

N.B.: documents in the file call Oxynotus centrina--an Atlantic fish--by the common name 'Prickly Dogfish'. Today that common name is usually reserved for Oxynotus bruniensis--a Pacific fish--while O. centrina is called 'Angular Roughshark'.

Also see 'Headfish / Ranzania laevis' file at the end of the numbered list.

Possibly includes the former contents of three missing numbered files: 7) Chimaeras, 18) Bermuda, and 22) Larval Fish.

Also see '4) Bathynomeus Trapping Project' and 'Bathynomeus Specimens'.

Also see '4) Bathynomeus Trapping Project' and 'Bathynomeus Trapping Project'.

The materials document special projects Nixon Griffis worked on at the New York Aquarium, first in his position as Assistant to the Director and later as a trustee of the New York Zoological Society. Topics primarily include suggestions for Aquarium exhibits and collecting activity, especially of benthic and mesopelagic marine animals. A few files include correspondence and photographs from William Beebe’s former Bathysphere colleague Otis Barton.

Also see '31) Ranzania laevis'.

Includes photographs (Otis Barton's collecting trips and others) and schematics. Also see '6) Benthic -- including Otis Barton' and '19) Submersibles -- Unmanned'.