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New York Aquarium. Office of the Director. Charles H. Townsend records
Fonds
Identifier: 1009
Abstract
Charles Haskins Townsend served as the Director of the New York Aquarium (NYA) from 1902 to 1937. This collection includes correspondence and subject files during his tenure as Director, articles and reports on such subjects as Northern fur seals and Galapagos tortoises, whaling records that he used to create maps of whale distribution, and photographs he took during trips and expeditions to locations including the Bahamas, Canada, California, and Alaska.
Dates:
1885 - 1936
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research additional records
Collection
Identifier: 1016
Abstract
This collection consists of records related to the work of the New York Zoological Society’s Department of Tropical Research, which conducted ecological expeditions between 1916 and 1964. These records appear to have been transferred to the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives after the primary DTR collections were processed, and they supplement those collections (WCS Archives Collections 1005A-1005J). The majority of the records were created by DTR Director William Beebe and Assistant...
Dates:
circa 1916-1964; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1949
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Oceanographic expeditions. Noma and Arcturus records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005F
Abstract
The bulk of this collection consists of records created by the Department of Tropical Research, under the direction of William Beebe, during their investigation of the Sargasso Sea, Humboldt Current, and Hudson Gorge, aboard the Arcturus. Records include the logbook of the steamship, dredging records, haul summaries, outlines and field notes on fishes, data on deep-sea fauna, and background notes for published studies. Additionally, this collection holds some...
Dates:
1923-1925
Found in:
Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
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- Northern fur seal 1
- Northern fur seal—Law and legislation 1
- Oceanographic submersibles 1
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska) 1
- Public aquariums 1
- Public aquariums -- Administration 1
- Public aquariums -- Design and construction 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Scientific expeditions -- California, Gulf of (Mexico) 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Haiti 1
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- Scientific expeditions -- Peru Current 1
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- Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago 1
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- Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela 1
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- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
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- Albatross (Steamer) 1
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