Gift to the Museum from Capt. J. N. Belkin, 20th Malaria Survey Unit

Summary

Documentation of a gift to the United States National Museum (now known as the National Museum of Natural History) from Capt. John N. Belkin, 20th Malaria Survey Unit, APO 709. Capt. Belkin was a mosquito specialist in the Malaria Survey detachment of the U.S. Army Sanitary Corps in the Solomon Islands from 1943-45. These units helped identify how to keep troops from contracting malaria, which was a large problem during World War II. For over 20 months Belkin collected more than 20,000 adult mosquito specimens and even more larvae on Guadalcanal Island. Handwritten on the paper is: "70 adults 37 slides Guadalcanal."

Subject

• United States National Museum
• United States Sanitary Commission
• United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Entomology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170298 J. N. Belkin

Contact information

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

Date

1945

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• WW II
• Insects
• Accessions
• Collectors and collecting
• Science
• Specimens
• Gifts
• World War, 1939-1945

Place

• Oceania
• Solomon Islands

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2010-0984

Physical description

Number of Images:1; Color: Color; Size: 5w x 3h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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