Page 1 of a Letter from Herbert Friedmann to S. Dillon Ripley

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Summary

Page 1 of a letter from Herbert Friedmann to S. Dillon Ripley informs him that he has finished reading galley proofs of his "Birds of the West Sumatra Islands"; has sent a copy of the Annual Report to Herbert G. Deignan who in turn is to forward it to Ripley; reports Dr. Charles G. Abbot has resigned as Secretary and that Dr. Alexander Wetmore will become Acting Secretary; Mrs. Roxie C. Simpson, divisional taxidermist, has been working chiefly on cleaning and reshaping old specimens; and that in addition to the list of a number of deaths of ornithologists he sent to Deignan he has learned of the death by a robot bomb in London of William Lutley Sclater.

Subject

  • Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
  • Deignan, H. G (Herbert Girton) 1906-
  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
  • Laybourne, Roxie C. 1910-2003
  • Sclater, William Lutley 1863-1944
  • Office of Strategic Services
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds 1897-1947

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • Future Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, formerly assistant curator in the Division of Birds, US 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 field studies 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. SIA2010-0581 for page 2.

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

July 10, 1944

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

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

Place

  • Sri Lanka
  • Washington (D.C.)

ID Number

SIA2010-0580

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 7.00w x 10.33h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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