John Brooks Henderson, Jr., Cuba, Trinidad, 1920

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

Henderson, J. B. 1870-1923

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1920

Notes

John Brooks Henderson, Jr., a diplomatic advisor to China, was a shell collector. Interested in the marine shell life of the West Indies, he participated in several expeditions to the Caribbean. He also traveled to collect marine mollusks along the Southeastern United States. His collections were donated to the United States National Museum. He did volunteer work in the Division of Mollusks in his spare time, and wrote several articles for the Proceedings of the United States National Museum and Bulletin of the United States National Museum.This field book includes a list few station notes, numbered 354 to 363, from a specimen collection field trip, and a page of diary notes, but it does not include any detailed list of collected species.

Subjects

(John Brooks), , 1870-1923 , Cuba , Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology , Field notes , Henderson, J. B , Marine biology , Mollusks , National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) , Trinidad

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142188