Page 1 of a Letter from S. Dillon Ripley to Herbert Friedmann
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Future Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, formerly assistant curator in the Division of Birds, U.S. National Museum, volunteered for service during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Stationed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, he continued his ornithological passion with bird field studies in his free time. Having traveled widely in the South Pacific before the war, he knew the geography, natural history and languages of the region.
- See Neg. SIA2010-0578 for page 2 and SIA2010-0579 for page 3.
- Summary
- Page 1 of a letter from S. Dillon Ripley to Herbert Friedmann, curator of birds at the U.S. National Museum, quotes from a letter from Salim Ali of the Bombay Natural History Society about Ali's proposed collecting of bird skins in India for the U.S. National Museum.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 899, Folder: 170221
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- October 7, 1944
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0577
- Author
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Subject
- Ali, Sálim 1896-1987
- Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
- United States National Museum
- Office of Strategic Services
- United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds 1897-1947
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Document
- Paper
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 7.74w x 9.87h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Topic
- Collectors and collecting
- World War, 1939-1945
- Ornithologists
- Ornithology--Field work
- Museum curators
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Letters
- Specimens
- Record ID
- siris_sic_14692
