Scope and Contents This expedition, the first official one of the Academy, included J. E. Ives, Roberts LeBoutillier, Witmer Stone and Frank C. Baker in the party. Arriving on the 22nd of February, they covered the territory of the northwestern part of Yucatan and the Mexican highlands in the vicinity of Orizaba. Natural history specimens were gathered and photographic records of the ecological conditions and the contours of the country through which they travelled, were taken. The short time spent in the...

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This collection consists of a circa 1960s two-piece Braun flash unit (flash bulb and battery pack). It was transferred from the Malacology Department where it most likely had been used.

Overview Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...

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The VIREO Department papers document the early history of the VIREO Department from its inception in 1979. This collection contains accession books, planning documents, reports, agreements, inventories, procedures, grant proposals, job applications, ledgers, royalty documents, correspondence, and negatives.

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Correspondence, photographs, photographic equipment, and miscellaneous printed material. 3 document cases. Unprocessed. Personal papers of the Academy's curator of mammals, including a copy of the typed diary kept by Edward Woolman on the Academy expedition to the Queen Charlotte Islands In 1930, illustrated with Huber's photographs.

Archived from Huber's library on August 9, 1965.