Laurence Gould collection, 1928-1931.

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Laurence Gould collection, 1928-1931.

The collection comprises of material relating to the United States Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930 (leader Richard Evelyn Byrd) and correspondence regarding the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott).

Expedition material (5 leaves) and correspondence (1 leaf)

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SNAC Resource ID: 11614717

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995

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Laurence (Larry) McKinley Gould was born in Michigan in 1896. He studied law and geology at the University of Michigan before serving in Italy and France with the US Army Ambulance Service during the First World War. After the war, he resumed his geological studies at the University of Michigan, receiving his doctorate in 1923. In 1926, he was a member of the University of Michigan's expedition to Greenland under Professor W.H. Hobbs and the following year, he joined George Palmer Putnam in expl...