Letter from S. Dillon Ripley to Herbert Friedmann
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Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
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Date: January 4, 1944
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
Letter from S. Dillon Ripley to Herbert Friedmann, curator with the Division of Birds, United States National Museum, discusses collecting in Ceylon with a good Singhalese assistant and seeing W.W.A. Phillips. He also writes about places he would like to visit after the war.
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Future Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, formerly assistant curator in the Division of Birds, U.S. National Museum, 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. Having traveled widely in the South Pacific before the war, he knew the geography, natural history and languages of the region.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 4, 1944
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