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The Denison-Crockett Expedition (1937–1938) was a scientific expedition organized by Charis Denison Crockett and her husband Frederick Crockett for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
In 1934 Charis Denison graduated magnum cum laude with a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Radcliffe. She married Frederick E. Crockett, M.D., who had been a dog driver on Admiral Byrd's 1928–30 Antarctican expedition.[1] Charis Crockett persuaded her husband to become a photographer on a small expedition to New Guinea, where she would do anthropological research. (In the 1930s, New Guinea was part of the Dutch East Indies.) The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia sponsored the expedition, which had as members the newly married Crocketts and five other Americans. S. Dillon Ripley was the expedition's zoologist. Besides the Crocketts and Ripley the expedition members were three men, namely the captain (and navigator), a cook, and a sailor, and one woman, "Diddy" Lowndes, who was a friend of Charis Crockett's. The expedition departed from Gloucester, Massachusetts aboard the schooner Chiva. The expedition arrived in October 1937 at Sorong and the Crocketts lived in a house on stilts at the village of Sainke Doek, which was inland from Sorong and served as a station for the sago trade. Charis Crockett wrote a popular book A House on Stilts in the Rain Forest about their experiences.[2][3]
The expedition collected 121 fish specimens from 7 locations, most of them in New Guniea; there were 67 species, one of which was new with a new genus.[4] On the island of Biak, Ripley collected 3 specimens of a new subspecies of phalanger.[5]
Ripley collected over 300 specimens of birds from Biak, representing most of the island's endemic species.[6] The expedition collected specimens of birds from the Kepuluan Penyu (Schildpad Islands),[7] Misool (Batanme), Salawati and Batanta.[8]
References
- ^ 298 Marlborough Back Back House
- ^ Crockett, Charis (1942). A House on Stilts in the Rain Forest. Houghton Mifflin.
- ^ "Review: The House in the Rain Forest by Charis Crockett". The Saturday Review: p. 19. 18 April 1942.
{{cite journal}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ Henry W. Fowler (1939). Zoological Results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937–1938. Part III: The Fishes. pp. 77–96.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ^ Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. (6 September 1940). "Zoological Results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937–1938. Part VI—A New Race of the New Guinea Short-headed Flying Phalanger from Biak Island". Notulae Naturae.
- ^ Ernst Mayr; Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1939). "Zoological Results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937–1938. Part IV: Birds from Northwest New Guinea". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vol. 91: 97–144.
{{cite journal}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute. p. 37. The Schildpad Islands are a group of 8 low-lying islands located about 26 kilometers NNE of the NE point of Misool (Batanme).
- ^ Ernst Mayr; Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1939). "Zoological Results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937–1938. Part V: Birds from the Western Papuan Islands". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vol. 91: 145–163.
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