General Account 1938-1939

[209] leaves: illustrations, maps ; 30 cm; Handwritten in ink in string-bound volume; Pages are numbered consecutively on recto only, 1-64; 67-105.Account maintained by Richardson between April 1938 and May 1939 while acting as Mammalogist on the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Includes notes on daily activities, particularly collecting, as well as the organization of the camps and expedition movements, notes about his fellow participants, equipment, the seaplane Guba II, weather, surrounding environment, weather and some personnel listings. Locations include Hollandia, Lake Habbema, Mt. Wilhelmina, the Balim River, the Grand River and the Bele River. Includes diagrammatic sketches of the camps and maps. Much of this account is also available in a typescript version.CLI

[Summary and itineraries] 1936-1938 / Austin Rand.

[25] leaves ; 28 cm. Note Loose annotated typescript and handwritten pages. Pages are partially numbered.Material Austin Rand compiled regarding the Archbold Expeditions to New Guinea, includes a proposed outline for the 1938 expedition and locality information. Material appears to have been written both before and after completion of the field work. The 1938 Archbold Expedition -- Locality names -- Locality names of the 1936 Expedition -- Index to the localities in the Papuan region at which birds have been collected. Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) was a Canadian ornithologist. His association with the American Museum of Natural History began with the Mission zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar, the results of which would form his Ph.D. thesis. He also met life-long friend and collaborator Richard Archbold at this time and would continue to participate in and co-lead the first three Archbold Expeditions to New Guinea. He would also help Archbold develop the Archbold Biological Station in Florida and would ultimately retire there. The majority of his professional career was spent in curatorial capacities at the Ornithology department of the Field Museum in Chicago.CLI

[Journal, 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] March 23, 1938 to June 9, 1939 / Leonard J. Brass.

[218] leaves ; 28 cm. Loose typescript with handwritten annotations. Most leaves have been numbered, 9 unnumbered leaves have been inserted chronologically. Page ranges are 1-59, [4], 60-98, [2], 99-107, [3], 108-209.Daily log of activities kept by Brass during the 3rd of the Archbold Expeditions. The bulk of the journal contains general observations of the local flora and his collecting and photography activities. Includes descriptions of the vegetation and land from the air, during his travel to the expedition and the many reconnaissance flights on the Guba. Brass also describes the organization and establishment of the expedition camps and supply deliveries, the movements of his fellow participants and native workers, and the activities of the Guba. A copy of a letter from Archbold detailing his efforts to find a route to scale Mt. Wilhelmina (Mount Trikora) is included, as are excepts of notes from numbered field books. Some of the locations cited include Batavia, Hollandia (Jayapura), Lake Habbema, the Idenberg River (Taritatu River) , the Bele River, the Baliem valley, Makassar, Lake Sentani, Kaiabu and the camps on Mt. Wilhelmina. Leonard J. Brass (1900-1971) was an Australian botanist and Associate Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He began his expeditionary work for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and was brought into the Archbold Expeditions by Richard Archbold in 1933 for the 1st of the New Guinea Expeditions. He would join all but the last of the New Guinea Expeditions, leading the 4th, 5th and 6th, as well as the expedition to Cape York. He participated in other American Museum of Natural History expeditions, and also maintained ties with the Arnold Arboretum. Brass was involved in a research directorial capacity at the Archbold Biological Research Station in Florida from its inception in 1941 and retired in 1966.CLI

[Austin Rand's journal, 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] July 6, 1938 to May 5, 1939 / Austin L. Rand.

[85], 5 leaves ; 28 cm. Unbound typescript (some sheets are carbons)Journal primarily deals with organization of expedition, including communication between camps, delivery of supplies, movement of the parties and the daily activities of himself, other participants and expedition workers, including collecting work. In August the entries begin to deal more specifically with species information and observations. Also includes some passages with very detailed movement logs for excursions, including the search for a campsite for Mt. Wilhelmina (Mount Trikora). Other localities cited include Hollandia (Jayapura), Bernhard Camp, Lake Habbema, the Idenburg (Taritatu) and Waruma Rivers. Details are given of a shipment of specimen cases to the Museum. Last five pages are numbered carbon copies of the "Summary of activities of inland collecting party." Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) was a Canadian ornithologist. His association with the American Museum of Natural History began with the Mission zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar, the results of which would form his Ph.D. thesis. He also met life-long friend and collaborator Richard Archbold at this time and would continue to participate in and co-lead the first three Archbold Expeditions to New Guinea. He would also help Archbold develop the Archbold Biological Station in Florida and would ultimately retire there. The majority of his professional career was spent in curatorial capacities at the Ornithology department of the Field Museum in Chicago.CLI

[Species notes, 3rd Archbold New Guinea Expedition] 1936-1939

[552] pages ; 13-28 cm, in 39 folders, 24 x 28 cm; Mainly handwritten notes with some typed transcriptions and reproductions. Material has been arranged and separated into folders by species.Species notes relating to the collecting activites during the 3rd Archbold New Guinea Expedition in 1938-1939. The notes have been arranged into separate folders for each species. Each folder contains collection notes for the species by date; many folders also contain narrative species notes and transcription. The folder 'Hydromyinae' also contains a number of catalog sheets for both this and the 2nd Archbold Expedition of 1936-1937, as well as research notes and a partial manuscript draft. Richardson acted as mammalogist for the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea.CLI

W. B. Richardson -- General Account April 23, 1938 to May 22, 1939 / William B. Richardson.

[211] leaves: illustrations, maps ; 28 cm Unbound. 200 leaves typescript, 11 leaves of correspondence interleaved in chronological order.Account maintained by Richardson between April 1938 and May 1939 while acting as Mammalogist on the 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Includes notes on daily activities, particularly collecting, as well as the organization of the camps and expedition movements, notes about his fellow participants, equipment, the seaplane Guba II, weather, surrounding environment, weather and some personnel listings. Locations include Hollandia, Lake Habbema, Mt. Wilhelmina, the Balim River, the Grand River and the Bele River. Includes diagrammatic sketches of camps and maps, and 11 pieces of original correspondence placed chronologically among the journal entries, often with transcription. Correspondents include Austin Rand and Richard Archbold. One draft of a telegram is in Dutch and describing the plans for a reception but the note is marked as cancelled. Much of this account is also available in a bound handwritten volume.CLI