[Field notes] February 15 to March 2 1929

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List of “contraband” items collected by Hamlin during the Whitney South Seas expedition. These were referred to but not itemized in the general specimen list notes. Data includes type, sex, specimen number, and location and date collected. Locations in the Louisiade Archipelago. Hannibal Hamlin was an American neurosurgeon who traveled with the Whitney South Sea Expedition beginning in 1927. After original leader Rollo Beck retired, Hamlin was appointed leader of the expedition from March 1928 until January 1930. He left the expedition in August of 1930. Specimen numbers 36904 to 36982, also referenced as numbers 1 through 79.

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3 leaves ; 24 cm

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Birds -- Papua New Guinea -- Louisiade Archipelago., Louisiade Archipelago (Papua New Guinea) -- Description and travel., Hamlin, Hannibal, 1904-1982 -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea -- Louisiade Archipelago., France (Schooner), Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941), Scientific expeditions -- Papua New Guinea -- Louisiade Archipelago.

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