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W. B. Richardson -- General Account April 23, 1938 to May 22, 1939   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Richardson, William Bebb
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection
American Museum of Natural History
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd: 1938-1939)
Title
W. B. Richardson -- General Account April 23, 1938 to May 22, 1939
Description
Unbound
200 leaves typescript, 11 leaves of correspondence interleaved in chronological order
Account maintained by Richardson between April 1938 and May 1939 while acting as Mammalogist on the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Includes notes on daily activities, particularly collecting, as well as the organization of the camps and expedition movements, notes about his fellow participants, equipment, the seaplane Guba II, weather, surrounding environment, weather and some personnel listings. Locations include Hollandia, Lake Habbema, Mt. Wilhelmina, the Balim River, the Grand River and the Bele River. Includes diagrammatic sketches of camps and maps, and 11 pieces of original correspondence placed chronologically among the journal entries, often with transcription. Correspondents include Austin Rand and Richard Archbold. One draft of a telegram is in Dutch and describing the plans for a reception but the note is marked as cancelled. Much of this account is also available in a bound handwritten volume
Part of AMNH Mammalogy Departmental Library and Archives
Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant

Subjects: Mammals; Description and travel; Travel; Scientific expeditions; Equipment and supplies; Richardson, William Bebb; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd: 1938-1939)
Language eng
Publication date 1938
publication_date QS:P577,+1938-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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wbrichardsongen00rich
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https://archive.org/download/wbrichardsongen00rich/wbrichardsongen00rich.pdf
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