United States. Canal Zone Biological Area, Barro Colorado Island Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Note:
Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1918-1939, between James Zetek, resident custodian, staff members, professional colleagues, and government officials; documents
operation and activities of the facility; correspondents include Ralph Buschbaum, Arthur Merton Chickering, William James Clench, David Grandison Fairchild, Ludlow Griscom,
Burton Edward Livingston, Altus Lacy Quaintance, Franz Schrader, William Seifriz, Thomas Elliot Snyder, Paul Carpenter Standley, Alexander Wetmore, William M. Wheeler.
Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, loose, 1940-1964, and undated, between James Zetek and Martin Humphrey Moynihan, resident directors of the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute, and scientists, government officials, and employees; concerned largely with maintenance of facilities and fiscal matters; some material on conversion to Canal Zone
Biological Area; correspondents include John Enos Graf, William Henry Weston, and Alexander Wetmore.
Visitors' registers, freight invoices, electrical power need survey, grant applications, 1920-1956; records dealing with supply and finance of STRI.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 134, United States. Canal Zone Biological Area, Barro Colorado Island, Records
This accession consists of annual reports of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and its predecessor, the United States Canal Zone Biological Area, Barro Colorado
Island.