African biological field photographs, 1929-1931.

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African biological field photographs, 1929-1931.

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Photographs of zoological specimens collected, expedition events, tribal life, and expedition members including scientist and photographer Henry Cushier Raven, and scientists James Howard McGregor, William King Gregory, and Earl T. Engle. Locales include Zaire (the Belgian Congo), West Africa, Cameroon, Lake Kivu and Chilinda. Photographs were taken by Raven. Photographs are identified.

1 album (1,398 photoprints)120 photoprints : b&w.6 transparencies : b&w.2 transparencies : col.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Engle, Earl T. (Earl Theron), 1896-1957

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Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944

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Henry Cushier Raven (1889-1944) began his zoological career in the Department of Preparation of the American Museum of Natural History in 1907. While there he worked with Jesse D. Figgins and Herbert Lang, noted taxidermists. When Figgins moved to the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1910, he took Raven with him. In 1912, the Smithsonian Institution and William Louis Abbott were looking for a young collector and explorer to carry on Abbott's work in the East Indies. Hearing good reports reg...

McGregor, James Howard, 1872-1954.

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James Howard McGregor was a zoologist and taught zoology at Columbia University (1924-1942). He was also a member of the staff at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (1899-1906). From the description of Notes on x-ray experiments, 1907 March 30. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523435 From the description of The osteology and myology of Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis with eleven plates, 1894. (American Philosophical Society ...

Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970

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Vertebrate paleontologist, Curator in the Dept. of Comparative Anatomy, Ichthyology, and Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History; and Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Columbia University. He died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1906-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485193 William King Gregory, vertebrate paleontologist and ichthyologist, was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor...