Map of Shark Attacks in the Americas

Summary

Map of Shark Attack Cases in North and Central America and the West Indies, prepared by Leonard P. Schultz, National Museum of Natural History, for a report on shark attacks. Report was for the Shark Research Panel of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, supported by the Office of Naval Research and coordinated by Schultz, a curator at the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

• Schultz, Leonard P (Leonard Peter) 1901-
• American Institute of Biological Sciences Shark Research Panel
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Fishes
• Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
• United States National Museum Division of Fishes

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Leonard P. Schultz was an Ichthyologist, field naturalist, curator and senior zoologist at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).
• For additional information relating to shark attacks, see Negative Numbers SIA2013-08825, SIA2013-08826, SIA2013-08827, SIA2013-08828.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222, Box 21, Folder: 14

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1962

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Fishes
• Sharks
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Ichthyology
• Employees
• Museums
• Chondrichthyes
• Maps
• Museum curators
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Drawing

ID Number

SIA2013-08830

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 9.25h; Type of Image: Drawing; Medium: Photographic print

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