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Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History

Title

Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History Extracts from the journal of Rollo H. Beck

Title Variants

Alternative: Beck's journal

Alternative: Extracts from the journal of Rollo H. Beck

By

Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology.
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection.
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1930 and 1941]

Notes

Bound volumes.

Typescript, based on original field notes written between 1920 and 1925.

Contents: v. 1. September 1920-June 1923 -- v. 2. December 1923-August 1925.

Vol. 1. includes several detailed, hand-colored scientific illustrations by Ernest H. Quayle of bird specimens collected and observed.

Vol. 2 has the June 1925 (vol. 3, no. 17) issue of the Fiji Times & Herald's Fiji Tourist Gazette bound in after page 200. Also included is a brochure entitled British Empire Exhibition of Fiji, 1924 lightly pasted onto page [201].

Vol. 2 does not contain pages 152-155.

Daily field notes (many mentioning Ernest Quayle) from Beck's time as leader of the Whitney South Sea Expedition from 1920 to 1925. Beck was the leader of field research for the first eight years of the Whitney South Seas Expedition.

During his lifetime, Beck was considered the foremost collector in the field and was renowned for his ability to quickly prepare well-made studyskins of birds. He had led the AMNH Brewster-Sanford Expedition (1912-1917) before joining Whitney South Seas Expedition.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.