Collecting
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-080
G. A. Bisher Orr, Papers
Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0395
Scope and Contents
On a collecting trip to Honduras, from Bay Islands to Bonacca in 1942, Orr kept a diary, pages 7-18, giving a running description of the environment and weather conditions, while pages 100-109 list and describe the collecting stations set up, with the catches, dates and habitat information for each species. Accompanying the diary is a list of equipment used and a summary of the numbers of specimens caught.
Dates:
1942
John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839