Telegram from Howard Fyfe to Herbert S. Bryant
ID: SIA2010-0557
Creator: Fyfe, Howard
Form/Genre: Document
Date: April 17, 1945
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
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Telegram from Howard Fyfe, agent for United Dispatch, that he would arrange customs examination of the box sent by S. Dillon Ripley from Colombo, Ceylon, at the United Dispatch location in New York, New York.
Subject
- Bryant, Herbert S 1878-1950
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds
- United States National Museum
- Office of Strategic Services
- Office of Correspondence and Documents
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- Future Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, assistant curator in the Division of Birds, volunteered for service during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Stationed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, he continued his ornithological passion with bird watching in his free time. As an avid bird collector, Ripley maintained contact with the Smithsonian and donated specimens he collected there to the United States National Museum, Division of Birds. Having traveled widely in the South Pacific before the war, he knew the geography, natural history and languages of the region.
- See Neg. Numbers SIA2010-0556, SIA2010-0555, SIA2010-0558, SIA2010-0559, SIA2010-0560, SIA2010-0561, SIA2010-0562 relating to the shipment by S. Dillon Ripley of bird specimens he collected during World War II in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and sent to the Smithsonian.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
April 17, 1945
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Telegraph
- WW II
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Employees
- Collecting and collections
- Shipping
- Communication
- World War, 1939-1945
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Form/Genre
- Document
- Paper
ID Number
SIA2010-0557
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 7.94w x 5.67h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper