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4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, 1953 Papua -- Cape Vogel, Maneau Range (Mt. Dayman), Goodenough Island / Hobart M. Van Deusen.
([1953], 1953) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; American Museum of Natural History.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.
Mammal field catalog for the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Collection dates range from March 22 to November 1, 1953; locations in the Milne Bay province include Cape Vogel, Mount Dayman in the Maneau Range, and Goodenough Island; field collection numbers range from 11651 to 13604. Data noted includes field number, type, sex, measurements, locality and collection notes. In addition to the catalog entries, the volume includes recapitulated lists of data sorted by animal type, date of collection and type of specimen, a brief catalog of birds collected, and notes on languages and localities. Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.
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Diary 1953 / Hobart M. Van Deusen.
([1953], 1953) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; American Museum of Natural History.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.
Daily pocket diary kept by Van Deusen during the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Diary has preprinted dates and informational front matter. Van Deusen's entries span from January 28, 1953 to November 28, 1953 and include very short notations of location, weather, ship coordinates, some collecting specifications, and daily activities. Also notes names of acquaintances, a packing container list, a shopping list and some expenditures. This expedition primarily collected in the Cape Vogel Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.
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Diary of H. M. Van Deusen January 29 to November 17, 1953 / Hobart M. Van Deusen.
([1953], 1953) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; American Museum of Natural History.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.
Diary kept by Van Deusen during the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1953. Dates encompass January 29 to November 17, 1953 and include the journey by ship from New York to Australia via the Panama Canal, the expedition, and then a brief itinerary of the return air journey. Information includes daily nautical updates, descriptions of acquaintances, environs, animals sighted and customs at various locales. Primarily documents the exploration and collecting activities of Van Deusen and other members of the expedition party, including Geoffrey Tate, Leonard Brass and Kenneth Wynn. Some collection tallies are also noted. Locations and camps mentioned include Baiawa, Samarai, Menapi, the Maneau peak of Mt. Dayman, Peria River, Gwariu River, Goodenough Island, Bolu Bolu, Wakonai, Garuwata, Waterfall camp, Cairns and Sydney. Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.
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Diary of H. M. Van Deusen January 29, 1953 to November 17, 1953 / Hobart M. Van Deusen.
([1953], 1953) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; American Museum of Natural History.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.
Diary kept by Van Deusen during the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1953. Dates encompass January 29 to November 17 and entries include the journey by ship from New York to Australia via the Panama Canal, the expedition, and then a brief itinerary of the return air journey. Information includes daily nautical updates, descriptions of acquaintances, environs, animals sighted and customs at various locales. Primarily documents the exploration and collecting activities of Van Deusen and other members of the expedition party, including Geoffrey Tate, Leonard Brass and Kenneth Wynn. Some collection tallies are also noted. Locations and camps mentioned include Baiawa, Samarai, Menapi, the Maneau peak of Mt. Dayman, Peria River, Gwariu River, Goodenough Island, Bolu Bolu, Wakonai, Garuwata, Waterfall camp, Cairns and Sydney. Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.
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Fourth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1953 Territory of Papua / Geoffrey M. Tate, Collector.
([1953], 1953) Tate, Geoffrey M., 1898-1964.; Gray, Alice, 1914-1994.; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History.; Van Deusen, Hobart M.
Bound collection containing documents relating to the 1953 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Of note are the field insect and reptile catalog listings, which date between March 24 and October 27, 1953 and include specimen number, kind, date, locality, collector and remarks. Locations noted include Menapi, Baiawi, the Maneau Range of Mt. Dayman, Gwariu River, Kwagiri River, and Goodenough Island. Entries primarily collected by Tate, as well as Kenneth Wynn and Hobart Van Deusen. Field collection numbers noted include 1 through 130. Also found in volume are food supply and packing lists, and a series of six 1947 instructional leaflets by Alice Gray of the American Museum of Natural History. Notes on botanical collection -- Summary of Collections, G.M. Tate -- Different kinds of frogs collected -- Contents of boxes as at arrival Samarai -- Statement of food consumption, March 22-Sept 14, 1953 -- Bulk food supplies as at arrival at Samarai (amend Baiawa) -- Stores and supplies at Baiawa as at 19th August 1953 -- Bal. of food loaded on ship -- Rations list August 7 -- [Packing lists] -- Worms, 4th Archbold Exped. 1953 -- How to make and use safe insect-killing jars /Alice Gray -- How to make and use insects nets / Alice Gray -- How to collect insects and spiders for scientific study / Alice Gray -- How to mount and label hard-bodied insects / Alice Gray-- How to make and use spreading boards for insects / Alice Gray-- How to preserve a collection of soft-bodied insects and spiders / Alice Gray. Geoffrey M. Tate, a zoologist and younger brother of American Museum of Natural History curator G. H. H. Tate, acted as business manager for Archbold Expeditions at the American Museum of Natural History. He accompanied as collector for both the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea and the 1948 Cape York Expedition.
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[Journal, 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] March 18 to May 15, 1953
(1953) Tate, Geoffrey M., 1898-1964.; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History.
Journal kept by Geoffrey Tate during the 4th Archbold Expedition in New Guinea. Tate acted as general zoological collector. Entries describe the local environments, people and social activities. Tate includes notes about the native assistants on their staff and the local social customs. He discusses both his own collecting activities, primarily focusing on insects and reptiles, as well as the collecting work and general organization of the entire expedition party, including Leonard Brass, Hobart Van Deusen, and Kenneth Wynn. Locations mentioned or described include Samarai, Menapi, the Maneau Range, Baiawa and caves at Dabora. Tate suffered a series of strokes during this expedition and was hospitalized. Geoffrey M. Tate, a zoologist and younger brother of American Museum of Natural History curator G. H. H. Tate, acted as business manager for Archbold Expeditions at the American Museum of Natural History. He accompanied as collector for both the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea and the 1948 Cape York Expedition.
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[Journal] March 2 to November 16, 1953
(1953) Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History.
Journal kept by Brass as leader of the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1953. Includes descriptions of various expedition activities and localities; also details weather and barometric data, social and camp activities, and planning work such as the arrangement of permits and staffing. Locations mentioned include Port Moresby, Konedobu, Samarai, Mt. Dayman and the Maneau Range, Cape Vogel, Monapi, Baiawa, Banaira and the Gwariu River. 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.
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[Notes on Papua New Guinea]
(1953) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953); American Museum of Natural History.
Various notes kept by Van Deusen, estimated from the 4th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, including some local language terms, a list of native personnel, some specimen notes and first aid directions. Also includes a key for notations regarding specimen coloration and a reference species tally for Mt. Simpson, Mt. Mur, the Maneao (Maneau) Range and Mt. Orian. The expedition focused on the Cape Vogel Peninsula of Papua New Guinea and particularly Mt. Dayman in the Maneau Range. Also contains one sketch of the Tubuai Islands. Hobart M. Van Deusen was a mammalogist and Assistant Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He participated in the Cape York Expedition as well as three of the Archbold New Guinea Expeditions, leading the seventh in 1964.
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Systematic reviews of New Guinea Coccymys and "Melomys" albidens (Muridae, Murinae) with descriptions of new taxa. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 329)
(New York : American Museum of Natural History., 2009) Musser, Guy G.; Lunde, Darrin P.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953)
A new species of the New Guinea endemic murine genus Coccymys is described, based on a small sample from Mt. Dayman and Mt. Simpson in the Maneau Range at the far eastern end of the Owen Stanley Ranges of eastern Papua New Guinea, and two specimens from the western portion of the Owen Stanleys, one from Smith’s Gap near Mt. St. Mary, the other from Bulldog Road in the Wau area. Coccymys kirrhos, n. sp., is a vicariant relative of C. shawmayeri, which occurs in the Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea extending from Mt. St. Mary in the east to the Telefomin region in the west. Coccymys shawmayeri in turn is the eastern montane vicariant of the western New Guinea C. ruemmleri, so far recorded only from the Snow Mountains in western New Guinea ‪(‬Papua Province of Indonesia‪)‬ and the eastern end of the Star Mountains over the border in the western section of Papua New Guinea. Coccymys ruemmleri and C. shawmayeri are regionally sympatric in western Papua New Guinea where the former is apparently restricted to high altitudes on the Star Mountains and the latter occurs at lower altitudes in the highlands bounding the Telefomin Valley. The ranges of C. shawmayeri and C. kirrhos, n. sp., overlap at the western section of the Owen Stanley Ranges, and both species have been caught at Bulldog Road, but in different years. This linearly distributed trio of species has been found only in the montane forests and alpine grasslands of the Central Cordillera--there are no records from mountains on Vogelkop Peninsula and the Huon Peninsula, nor from any of the north coast ranges. The new species is described within the context of rediagnosing the genus Coccymys, and documenting morphometric and geographic limits of C. ruemmleri and C. shawmayeri based on most specimens stored in collections of museums. This material consists primarily of museum study skins and accompanying skulls, some fluid-preserved specimens, skeletal fragments from modern samples of owl pellets, and Holocene and late Pleistocene fossils ‪(‬for C. ruemmleri only‪)‬. All species of Coccymys are nocturnal and scansorial; stomach contents from samples of C. shawmayeri indicate the diet consists of seeds, fruit, and arthropods. The taxon albidens is represented by six modern examples collected at 2800 m and 3225 m in 1938 from the northern slopes of the Snow Mountains of western New Guinea, and three late Pleistocene fossils obtained from the same region. The species was initially described as a Melomys ‪(‬Tate, 1951‪)‬; later an alliance with Coccymys was suggested ‪(‬Flannery, 1990; Menzies, 1990; Musser and Carleton, 1993‪)‬, but restudy of anatomical traits ‪(‬derived solely from stuffed skins with accompany‪[‬y‪]‬ing skulls‪)‬ reveals a degree of morphological divergence not only from species in Coccymys but from any other ‪"‬Old Endemic‪"‬ New Guinea murine. A new genus, Brassomys, sampled by only six modern specimens and three late Pleistocene fossils, is proposed to embrace albidens. Morphological attributes of that species are contrasted primarily with those characterizing Coccymys, and secondarily with the genera Melomys, Paramelomys, Mammelomys, Protochromys, Abeomelomys, and Pogonomelomys. Biological aspects of albidens are unknown; however, particular external, cranial, and dental traits in combination strongly suggest the species is a nocturnal, arboreal/scansorial invertebrate predator.