Covers his role as Chairman of the Department of Entomology, temporary move of the department to Lamont Street, and collecting trips to Micronesia, the Caribbean, and South America, c. 1956-1965, including: Role as Chairman of Department of Entomology;...
Collection Creator::
Clarke, J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates), 1905-1990, interviewee Search this
Container:
Interviews
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9555, J. F. Gates Clarke Oral History Interviews
Returns to reminiscences of Rapa, and covers his 1966 trip to seventeen countries and development of the Southeast Asia Mosquito Project at NMNH, c. 1963-1966, including: Additional reminiscences of Rapa natives and customs; seventeen country trip with...
Collection Creator::
Clarke, J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates), 1905-1990, interviewee Search this
Container:
Interviews
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9555, J. F. Gates Clarke Oral History Interviews
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology Search this
Extent:
13 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Pamphlets
Field notes
Maps
Scientific illustrations
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Date:
1949-1998
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding entomology focusing on the study of mosquitoes. Topics covered include the Southeast Asia
Mosquito Project, specimen collection, distribution or loan of specimens from the Museum, requests for determination of specimens by other international and domestic entomologists
and the public, and general research questions from the public. Some correspondence concerns research, identification collecting trips, applications for research grants, and
requests for publications and collaboration. Some materials predate 1963, when the department was the Division of Insects. Materials include correspondence, notes, memoranda,
pamphlets, field notes, illustrations, postcards, graphs, maps, agreements, negatives, photographs and other related materials.
Elaine Hodges was interviewed by Jen Page on July 6, 1996. Hodges was born in Washington, DC, in 1937, and she started working at the Smithsonian in 1965. She began as a personnel clerk and within six weeks, she held a position as a scientific illustra...
![view Covers his role as Chairman of the Department of Entomology, temporary move of the department to Lamont Street, and collecting trips to Micronesia, the Caribbean, and South America, c. 1956-1965, including: Role as Chairman of Department of Entomology;... digital asset: On board the ship "Freelance", J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates) Clarke, left, and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1887-1977, right, part of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition of 1956, examine specimens they collected. [Image nos. SIA2011-1457 or 91-13156]](https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=170&id=https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/electronicresource.gif "On board the ship \"Freelance\", J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates) Clarke, left, and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1887-1977, right, part of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition of 1956, examine specimens they collected. [Image nos. SIA2011-1457 or 91-13156]")
![View Covers his role as Chairman of the Department of Entomology, temporary move of the department to Lamont Street, and collecting trips to Micronesia, the Caribbean, and South America, c. 1956-1965, including: Role as Chairman of Department of Entomology;... digital asset: On board the ship "Freelance", J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates) Clarke, left, and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1887-1977, right, part of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition of 1956, examine specimens they collected. [Image nos. SIA2011-1457 or 91-13156]](https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=120&id=https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/electronicresource.gif "On board the ship \"Freelance\", J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates) Clarke, left, and Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, 1887-1977, right, part of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition of 1956, examine specimens they collected. [Image nos. SIA2011-1457 or 91-13156]")
