MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1907-1971
Abstract:
Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973), one of the twentieth century's great ornithologists, was curator of mammals and birds at the Brooklyn Museum (1911-1917) and was curator of birds and later chairman of birds at the American Museum of Natural History (1917-1973). The world's foremost authority on sea birds, in 1936, he penned Oceanic Birds of South America, a two volume set. An ardent traveler and explorer, he kept copious notes of his travels, which he typed up, illustrated and had bound. The APS library owns forty-two bound journals. Murphy was made an APS member in 1946. A pioneer in the study of the ecology, a louse, fish, plant, lizard, an Antarctic inlet, spider, and two mountains have acquired his name. This collection contains diaries, journals, articles, addresses and observations of Murph;, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts.
Call #:
Mss.B.M957
Extent:
25 Linear feet
Subjects:
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American Geographical Society of New York | American Museum of Natural History | American Philosophical Society | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Armstrong, John Charles | Articles. | Australia -- Description and travel. | Avila, Enrique | Bahamas -- Description and travel. | Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel | Belt, Charles Banks, 1931-1996 | Bermuda Islands -- Description and travel. | Bermuda petrel. | Biogeography. | Birds -- Geographical distribution. | Birds -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Birds -- Peru. | Birds -- Research. | Birds -- Venezuela. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 | British Columbia -- Description and travel. | Brooklyn Museum. | Brooks, Paul | Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 | Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 | Chapman, Frank M. | Charts. | Choco Indians | Clippings. | Cocopa Indians | Colombia -- Description and travel. | Conservation of natural resources. | DDT (Insecticide) | Deevey, Edward Smith, 1914-1988 | Diaries. | Ecology. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Falla, R. A. (Robert Alexander) | Faunce, Wayne M. | Fisheries -- Florida. | Fisheries -- North Carolina. | Fisheries -- Peru. | Fishes -- Peru. | Fishes -- Venezuela. | Fleming, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1916-1987 | Gelatin silver prints | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935 | Grosvenor, Gilbert H., 1875-1966 | Guano. | Indians of Central America -- Panama | Indians of North America -- Florida | Indians of North America -- New York (State) | Indians of South America -- Colombia | Indians of South America -- Ecuador | Indians of South America -- Peru | Journals (notebooks). | Maps. | Marine biology. | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mexico -- Description and travel. | Montauk Indians | Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 | Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 | Oceanography. | Ornithologists. | Ornithology -- South America | Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996 | Philippines -- Description and travel. | Photomechanical prints | Photoprints. | Quechua Indians | Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-2001 | Scrapbooks. | Seminole Indians | Sketches. | South America -- Description and travel. | Sperm whale. | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | United States -- Description and travel. | Vogt, William, 1902-1968 | Voyages and travels. | Water birds. | Whaling. | Zoology -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Zoology -- New Zealand. | Zoology -- South Carolina. | Zoology.