National Museum of Natural History (U. S.), Department of Invertebrate Zoology, curatorial records, 1893-1969
Physical Description:
1 field book
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 1, folder 11
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Place:
Samoa
Pacific Ocean
Date Range:
1969
Start Date:
19690420
End Date:
19690818
Abstract:
Austin E. Lamberts (1914-2006) was a physician who served as a flight surgeon during WWII. After an accident paralyzed his hand he studied marine zoology in the University of Hawaii. He then traveled the globe extensively, becoming a world expert on coral taxonomy, pioneering new techniques in electron microscopy, reclassifying Pacific coral and discovering several new coral species. Throughout his 70's and well into his 80's, Austin also worked as a medical missionary, traveling to Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Panama, Haiti, Tanzania, Cambodia, Thailand, Rwanda, and the South Pacific. This field book contains notes on a field trip to Samoa, from April to August 1969. It gives dates, from April 20 to August 18, 1969, and stations as well as details on the specimens of mollusks that were found, and includes many drawings of sites, some hand-colored in red.
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