Letter from Mrs. Constance Ripley to Herbert Friedmann, page 2

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Summary

Page 2 of letter from Mrs. Constance Ripley, S. Dillon Ripley's mother, to Herbert Friedmann, curator with the Division of Birds, United States National Museum, telling him about Dillon's planned weekend at the plantation of Major W.W.A. Phillips, a premier bird authority on the island of Ceylon.

Subject

  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
  • Phillips, W. W. A (William Watt Addison)
  • United States National Museum
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds 1897-1947
  • Office of Strategic Services

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • 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 (OSS), 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.
  • See Neg. SIA2010-0566 for page 1.

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

May 21, 1944

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • WW II
  • Animals
  • Letters
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Birds
  • Employees
  • Field work
  • Museums
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Ornithologists
  • Ornithology
  • Ornithology--Field work
  • Museum curators
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

  • Sri Lanka
  • Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Document
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2010-0567

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 5.69w x 7.59h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Letter

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