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Exploratory works

drawings from the Department of Tropical Research field expeditions

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An edition of Exploratory works (2017)

Exploratory works

drawings from the Department of Tropical Research field expeditions

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The Drawing Center
Language
English
Pages
149

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Subjects
Scientific expeditions, History, Animals, Pictorial works, Exhibitions, Natural history, Marine animals, Deep-sea animals, Natural history illustration, Natural history illustrators, Zoology, Research, New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research, New York Zoological Society, Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
People
William Beebe (1877-1962)
Places
Tropics, New York (State), New York

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Exploratory works: drawings from the Department of Tropical Research field expeditions
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Table of Contents

Foreword / by George Schaller
Introduction and timeline / Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod, and Madeleine Thompson
Interview with Richard Drayton / by Katherine McLeod
Original field texts. Excerpt from Exploring a tree and a yard of jungle (1916) / C. William Beebe ; Excerpt from Wild-animal painting in the jungle (1924) / Isabel Cooper ; Excerpt from Jungle studio (1945) / George Alan Swanson ; Excerpt from Notes on an undersea studio off Bermuda (1939) / Else Bostelmann ; Excerpt from A quarter mile down in the open sea (1930) / William Beebe ; Fish magic (1930) / Gloria Hollister.

Edition Notes

Catalog of an exhibition of illustrations from field expeditions of the New York Zoological Society's Department of Tropical Research, held at The Drawing Center, April 14-July 16, 2017.

Under director William Beebe, the Department of Tropical Research at the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) conducted field expeditions to study tropical ecology and marine biology. (Introduction)

Includes bibliographical references.

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New York, NY
Series
Drawing papers -- number 132, Drawing papers -- 132.
Copyright Date
2017

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Library of Congress
QL5 .E97 2017

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Pagination
149 pages, 11 unnumbered pages
Number of pages
149

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44504944M
ISBN 10
0942324609
ISBN 13
9780942324600
OCLC/WorldCat
990106707

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