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). - Catalog of an...
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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). - 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
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