Tahiti (French Polynesia: Island)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Pickering Journal of U. S. Exploring Expedition
Collection — Volume 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0308
Scope and Contents
This unpublished two volume journal kept by Charles Pickering covers the portion of the U.S. Exploring Expedition from Madeira to the Hawaiian Islands. It contains approximately 1000 pages of Pickering's commentary about various aspects of the localities visited including topography and geological structures, coral reel formations, climate, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, mollusks, insects, crustacea, and plants as well as accounts describing indigenous peoples. Lists of specimens seen and...
Dates:
September 1838-November 1841
Henry E. Crampton Papers on the Genus Partula
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0755
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, field notes, maps, charts, and original data, all unprocessed save for oversize drawings.Includes much original data and manuscripts relating to land snails of Tahiti. Original records for collections and research on South Pacific land snails, many of them now extinct, including field notes. Biographical and personal information included. Much of the original data are morphometric measurments and statistical analyses.Original box 12 of 12 contained...
Dates:
1879, 1892-1893, 1904-1955, undated; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1955