Murphy, Robert Cushman, ed.

The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Science Bulletin, "A Report on the South Georgia Expedition, Plates 14 - 18"

Brooklyn, New York: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1914. Vol. 2, No. 4. The expedition to South Georgia of 1912 - 1913, was a collaboration of the American Museum of Natural History and the owners of the brig "Daisy" of New Bedford, with a representative of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. "The chief objects of the trip were to make a collection of birds at South Georgia, and to secure skeletons and skins of the southern sea-elephant (Mirounga leonina)." (p43). Tall 8vo, pp 43 - 102, b&w photographic ills. Gray printed paper wrappers, with list of publications of the museums at back wrapper. Very good condition. Item #19516

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