Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History
Subtitle: Journal of Walter J. Eyerdam, August 17, 1929-July 10, 1930
Contributors: American Museum of Natural History; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection. ; Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941); American Museum of Natural History Field Book Project (2015)
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941); Scientific expeditions; Travel; Birds; Description and travel
Other titles: Journal of Walter J. Eyerdam, August 17, 1929-July 10, 1930; Eyerdam journal, August 1929-July 1930
Description: Journal entries with observations from Eyerdam's time collecting on the Whitney South Sea Expedition from 1929 to 1930.  These notes were compiled and edited into this volume from original material by Museum personnel. During this time, he collected specimens from various locales in Melanesia including Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.  Eyerdam had a particular interest in the collecting of shells.
Notes: Typescript.

Newspaper clipping attached to front endpaper.

Photocopy of Walter Eyerdam's Whitney South Sea Expedition obituary file laid-in.

Restricted; for access, please contact libref@amnh.org.

Walter Eyerdam was considered one the the twentieth century's greatest collectors of mollusks, plants, birds and mammals.

Part of the AMNH Ornithology Archives.