On a collection of birds made by Dr. Ernst Mayr in northern Dutch New Guinea
By: by Ernst Hartert. My Dutch New Guinea expedition, 1928 / by Ernst Mayr. List of the birds collected by Ernst Mayr / by Ernst Hartert
Contributors: Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005; Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005, former owner; Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001, former owner
Publisher: British Museum (Natural History)
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Birds
Other titles: Novitates zoologicae.
Notes: Individual titles on title page are numbered I-III.

Offprint from: Novitates zoologicae, volume 36, November 1930.

Includes bibliographical references.

Antiquariat Botanicum; purchase; 05/2014; $2000.00.

SCNHRB copy 39088017967506 is interleaved and extensively annotated by hand by the former owner, S. Dillon Ripley. Ripley's autograph in ink appears on the front free endpaper, with note: "(from E.M. 10/20/36)."

SCNHRB copy has tipped in on the front free endpaper: a typed letter signed ([1] page), on the letterhead of the American Museum of Natural History, Department of Ornithology, dated December 28, 1937, from Ernst Mayr to S. Dillon Ripley in the Schildpad Islands, thanking Ripley for sending Mayr a list of birds seen in the Schildpad Islands.

SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. Ex libris S. Dillon Ripley 2nd.; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased with funds from Dr. Alan Kabat.

SCNHRB copy has a black buckram binding; the original printed blue paper cover is bound in.