Fishes
     Subject 
  
        Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
      
        Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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
      
      
   