Robert P. Higgins, born in 1932, is an invertebrate zoologist who held various positions at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History, 1968-1996. The Smithsonian Institution Archives house field notes that document his collecting trips around the world. This field book is constituted of cards on field trips to the former USSR, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, United States, Australia, Spain, Namibia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Chile, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Polynesia, and the South Atlantic Ocean. The cards are forms, all checked as "logged" and each with an accession number, in which were filled, in various hands, rubrics including a station number, location, depth, sampling method, collector name, name of specimens.
1958-1960, 1963, 1980-1986, 1988-1993
1958
1993
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SIA Acc. 17-105
Robert P. Higgins Papers, 1957-1960, 1963-1965, 1968, 1972, 1976-1993
1 field book
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Box 1, folder 11