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Read Clinton G. Abbott's
article, "Closing
History of the Guadalupe Caracara," in an online version
of The Condor: 35(1): January-February 1933: 10-14, available
at SORA. Artifacts at PGMNH exhibit Visit the Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society's webpage Read a digital edition from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries of Walter Rothschild's The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands with a Complete History to Date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possession |
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Rollo Beck: Collecting for Lord Rothschild (1897-1898) Monterey Bay Collecting (1903-1910) Academy Galapagos Expedition (1905-1906) Collecting for Bent in Alaska (1911-1912) Brewster-Sanford Expedition (1912-1917) Whitney South Seas Expedition (1920-1929) Back Home in Planada (1930-1950) Arthur Cleveland Bent birdsbybent.com Brooklyn Botanic Garden's herbarium. See BBG's account of the Whitney South Seas expedition here The Burke Museum at the University of Washington holds some of the cultural items collected by the Becks in the early 1930s. A database of Burke Museum ethnology objects collected by Beck is available here. |
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CAS: "In Darwin's Wake: The Academy Sets Sail to the Galapagos," an article by Kathleen M. Wong, from the Spring 2003 issue of CAS' California Wild Read Paul R. Arnaud's
1979 A Catalog of the Types of Diptera in
the Collection of the California Academy of Sciences, which discusses Rollo Beck's Academy
expedition (p. 7) and Dr. Francis X. Williams, entomologist of
the expedition. Beck was elected to honorary membership in the Cooper Ornithological Society |
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Read about Sonoma State University geology professor Matthew J. James' own expeditions retracing Darwin's and Beck's footsteps in the Galapagos Islands. Visit the Charles Darwin Foundation's website. Deane Collection at the Library of Congress |
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Read excerpts from some of the original field notes from the 1905-1906 CAS Galapagos expedition, and see some of the photographs taken then Visit CAS' Pacific Voyages of Rollo Beck webpages, which detail the France's journey through Oceania |
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Read excerpts from some of the original field notes from the 1905-1906 CAS Galapagos expedition, and see some of the photographs taken then Read an abstract of Matthew J. James' article concerning the Galapagos Islands in, "Rollo Beck: A Glimpse into the Life of an Endangered Species," from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division 18 (1): 60 Read about Sonoma State University geology professor Matthew J. James' own expeditions retracing Darwin's and Beck's footsteps in the Galapagos Islands Read an abstract of Matthew J. James' 2003 seminar, Collecting Evolution: The 1905–1906 Galapagos Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute website See a list of collections related to the Galapagos Islands held by the CAS Special Collections, including a box list of Beck items Read a literature review of "Rothschild
and Hartert's 'Review of the Ornithology of the Galapagos
Islands'" in
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Visit Hopkins
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Read an abstract of Matthew J. James' article, "Rollo Beck: A Glimpse into the Life of an Endangered Species," from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division 18 (1): 60. Read an abstract of Matthew J. James' 2003 seminar, Collecting Evolution: The 1905–1906 Galapagos Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Read an interview of Matt James by Monterey Seabirding's Roger Wolfe |
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See Mary LeCroy's Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History for a detailed explanation of birds from Rothschild's collection that were sold to the AMNH Deane Collection
at the Library of Congress Read Louis Bishop's "In Memoriam: Leverett Mills Loomis" in an online version of the Auk (Volume 46, Number 1, January 1929), available at SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive) |
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Map
of Beck's World Travels | (View map in PDF format) Read an interview of Matt James by Monterey Seabirding's Roger Wolfe Read a literature
review of Murphy's Oceanic Birds of South America
in The Auk (Volume 53, Number 2, April, 1936) Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley |
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Gary Nafis' (CaliforniaHerps.com) The Natural History Museum in Tring, England |
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Read a literature review of Murphy's Oceanic Birds of South America in The Auk (Volume 53, Number 2, April, 1936). Rollo Beck's obituary in The Auk |
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Grove Museum of Natural History (PGMNH) Visit PGMNH's Point Pinos Lighthouse page Visit CAS' Pacific Voyages of Rollo Beck webpages, which detail the France's journey through Oceania |
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Visit Don Roberson's extensive
Monterey County
Birds webpage Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum Read a literature review of "Rothschild and Hartert's 'Review of the Ornithology of the Galapagos Islands'" in an online version of Auk: 17(3): July-September 1900 Read a digital edition from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries of Walter Rothschild's The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands with a Complete History to Date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possession |
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Read Rollo Beck's article, "A Season With the Golden Eagles
of Santa Clara Co., California,"
in an online version of The Condor: Volume 3, Number 3
(May-June, 1901), available at SORA
(Searchable Ornithological Research Archive). SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive) |
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The
Galapagos Tortoises in their Relationship to the Whaling Industry
by Charles Haskins Townsend The Natural History Museum in Tring, England The Tuttle Collection at the PGMNH |
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Alexander Wetmore Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7006: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated. (Includes Beck references.) Search the botany databases at the Bishop Museum for specimens collected during the Whitney South Seas Expedition Read Ernst Mayr's "Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 55, Notes on the birds of northern Melanesia." from American Museum novitates; no. 1294 on the AMNH website Read Robert Cushman Murphy's "Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition" from American Museum novitates; no. 115 on the AMNH website Read an interview of Matt James by Monterey Seabirding's Roger Wolfe "In Darwin's Wake: The Academy Sets Sail to the Galapagos," an article by Kathleen M. Wong, from the Spring 2003 issue of California Wild |
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