United States Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Records, 1945-1970
Physical Description:
1 folder
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 3
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Reports
Correspondence
Place:
United States
Alaska
Amchitka Island
Midway Islands
Pribilof Islands
Saint Paul Island
Date Range:
1957-1959
Start Date:
1957
End Date:
1959
Abstract:
The reports, memoranda, and correspondence document the field work of Karl W. Kenyon and Price (may mean Dale W. Rice), 1957-1959. Materials include a photocopy of the report, "territorial behavior and homing in the Alaska Fur Seal" by Karl W. Kenyon in Polovina Rookery on Saint Paul Island, with maps, photographs, and observations of specific seals; an abstract and progress report on sea otter investigations in Amchitka, Alaska, 1959, delineating work on population studies, tagging, transplanting; correspondence relating to report edits; and summary of report on bird problem in Midway Islands, 1957-1958.
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