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John Brooks Henderson, Jr., Cuba, Trinidad, 1920

by: Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923

Publication date: 1920

Topics: Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, Mollusks, Marine biology

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English

John Brooks Henderson, Jr., a diplomatic advisor to China, was a shell collector. Interested in the marine shell life of the West Indies, he participated in several expeditions to the Caribbean. He also traveled to collect marine mollusks along the Southeastern United States. His collections were donated to the United States National Museum. He did volunteer work in the Division of Mollusks in his spare time, and wrote several articles for the Proceedings of the United States National Museum and Bulletin of the United States National Museum.This field book includes a list few station notes, numbered 354 to 363, from a specimen collection field trip, and a page of diary notes, but it does not include any detailed list of collected species

Abstract: John Brooks Henderson, Jr., a diplomatic advisor to China, was a shell collector. Interested in the marine shell life of the West Indies, he participated in several expeditions to the Caribbean. He also traveled to collect marine mollusks along the Southeastern United States. His collections were donated to the United States National Museum. He did volunteer work in the Division of Mollusks in his spare time, and wrote several articles for the Proceedings of the United States National Museum and Bulletin of the United States National Museum.This field book includes a list few station notes, numbered 354 to 363, from a specimen collection field trip, and a page of diary notes, but it does not include any detailed list of collected species.