Details - Robert Tucker Abbott, station numbers 300-329, 1948-1950

Robert Tucker Abbott, station numbers 300-329, 1948-1950

Title

Robert Tucker Abbott, station numbers 300-329, 1948-1950

Title Variants

Alternative: R. T. Abbott, field record book, 1948-1950, sta. nos. 300-329

Related Titles

Contained In: National Museum of Natural History (U. S.), Department of Invertebrate Zoology, curatorial records, 1893-1969

Series: SIA Acc. 16-315

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Abbott, R. Tucker (Robert Tucker), 1919-1995

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1948-1950

Notes

R. T. Abbott was a medical malacologist. He became Assistant Curator and Associate Curator of the Department of Mollusks. He also was a Navy bomber pilot during WWII, and later joined the Naval Medical Research Unit to study in particular schistosomiasis, a disease affecting troops in the Pacific.This field book shows the list of numbers for various field stations visited by Abbott, in Florida, Kenya, Mombasa Island, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Guam. The notes are dated from January 27, 1948, to June 18, 1950. The stations are numbered 300 to 329. After a number of blank pages are added various notes, and a folder stationery sheet is inserted; it has the letterhead of an exporter of sea shells in East Africa. More notes are added at end.