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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 17-117
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Curatorial Records, 1947, 1953, 1955
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of field notes of Frederick M. Bayer (1921-2007), zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 1947-1961, 1975-1996. Bayer specialized in the study and classification of soft corals (Octocorallia). These materials consist of his catalogs and journals for his expeditions to the Bikini Atoll, the Ifaluk (Ifalik) Atoll, and the islands of Palau.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
Subject
- Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
- Fieldwork
- Ifalik Atoll (Micronesia)
- Invertebrates
- Octocorallia
- Palau
- Research
- Scientific surveys
- Zoologists
- Zoology
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-117, National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Curatorial Records