Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 5.69w x 7.59h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Letter
Type:
Document
Paper
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Sri Lanka
Date:
May 21, 1944
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 (OSS), predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Stationed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, he continued his ornithological passion with bird watching 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. SIA2010-0566 for page 1.
Summary:
Page 2 of letter from Mrs. Constance Ripley, S. Dillon Ripley's mother, to Herbert Friedmann, curator with the Division of Birds, United States National Museum, telling him about Dillon's planned weekend at the plantation of Major W.W.A. Phillips, a premier bird authority on the island of Ceylon.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
