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Physical description:
35mm;
Type:
Black-and-white negatives
Place:
Ceylon
Date:
1965
September 1969
Notes:
Digital contact sheet available.
Summary:
Dr. Thomas R. Soderstrom, associate curator in the Department of Botany at National Museum of Natural History, prepares equipment for air shipment or hand carrying for a plant collecting expedition in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, including a microscope, binoculars, bags of plastic specimen vials, an altimeter, hundreds of seed envelopes, a Nikon camera, a knapsack, and a plant press.
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