General Account

By

Richardson, William Bebb.

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1938-1939)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[1938-1939]

Notes

Handwritten in ink in string-bound volume.

Pages are numbered consecutively on recto only, 1-105.

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 the camps and maps. Much of this account is also available in a typescript version.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

1938-1939) , Archbold Expedition to New Guinea , Description and travel , Equipment and supplies , Field notes , Indonesia , Mammals , Maps , Papua , Papua (Indonesia) , Richardson, William Bebb , Scientific Expeditions , Travel

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140192
OCLC: 984127423
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51413776