Letter to Herbert Friedmann from S. Dillon Ripley

ID: SIA2010-0601

Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001

Form/Genre: Document

Date: July 16, 1944

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 866, Folder: 164398

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Summary

S. Dillon Ripley's letter to Herbert Friedmann, curator of birds, U.S. National Museum, encloses a key to open the trunk, containing 115 bird specimens, he hopes to send within the month. He also writes that, before trying any more, he wants to see how this shipment goes. Due to things getting rather moldy, he was anxious to "push them on."

Subject

  • Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
  • 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, 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.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 866, Folder: 164398

Contact information

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

Date

July 16, 1944

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Birds
  • Employees
  • Field work
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • WW II
  • Animals
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Specimens
  • Collecting and collections
  • Collection and preservation
  • Shipping
  • Shipment of goods
  • Birds--Collection and preservation
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Ornithologists
  • Ornithology--Field work

Place

Sri Lanka

Form/Genre

  • Document
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2010-0601

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 7.89w x 10.03h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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