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.
Subjects
(Robert Tucker),
,
1919-1995
,
Abbott, R. Tucker
,
Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
,
Division of Mollusks
,
Field notes
,
Florida
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Kenya
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Mollusks
,
Mombasa
,
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
,
Schistosoma
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schistosomiasis
,
Tanzania
,
Zanzibar
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142103
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