VAN GELDER, Richard G.

VAN GELDER, Richard G.

• 1958. Emerson, William K. Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico American Museum Novitiates No. 1894, July 22, 1958.

Puritan left Newport, CA on a collecting expedition for the American Museum of Natural History March 5-June 6, 1957.

Crew aboard were:

Captain Henry Angelsen; Fred Schmidt, engineer; Charles Frisk, first mate; Sverre Johannessen, Clyde Kettering, Donald Travis, and Collins Christie.

Scientists aboard were:

Harry J. Bauer, sponsor; William K. Emerson, malacologist and leader; Richard G. Van Gelder, mammalogist; Richard G. Zweifel, herpetologist; and Donald F. Squires, invertebrate paleontologist, all of the AMNH.

John D. Soule, invertebrate zoologist, Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California;

Oakes A. Plimpton, scientific assistant, New York City.