Contents List for Shipment to Ceylon
ID: SIA2010-0604
Creator: United States National Museum
Form/Genre: Document
Date: December 18, 1942
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 866, Folder: 164398
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List of contents of two boxes of field collecting equipment sent from Smithsonian Institution to S. Dillon Ripley, ornithologist serving with the Office of Strategic Services in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), so he can collect specimens for the U.S. National Museum.
Subject
- Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- 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.
- See Neg. # SIA2010-0603 for Shipping Invoice.
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
December 18, 1942
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- WW II
- Field Kit
- Animals
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Birds
- Employees
- Collecting and collections
- Field work
- Shipping
- Shipment of goods
- World War, 1939-1945
- Ornithologists
- Ornithology--Field work
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Place
Sri Lanka
Form/Genre
- Document
- Paper
ID Number
SIA2010-0604
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 8.02w x 10.5h ; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper