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Literature

Crocket, Frederick E. & Mrs Charis Denison

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

career:

Of the Denison-Crocket South Pacific Expedition for the Academy of Nat. Sciences of Philadelphia.¹ S.D. Ripley (see there), ornithologist, accompanied the expedition. It was the intention to make botanical explorations too.

Collecting localities:

Denison-Crocket South Pacific Expedition, 1937-38.¹ Departing from Philadelphia in Nov. 1936, sailing from Gloucester, Mass., in the schooner ‘Chiva’; arriving via Rabaul in Dutch NW. New Guinea: Manokwari (beginning of Oct. 1937), staying 1 day and proceeding to Sorong, remaining for a short time and then continuing to Lophon Island of the Schildpad group (Papua Islands) where their base camp was established; N. coast of Misoöl (Oct. 29), inland to the village of Tipon, Kassim River (staying 1 week); Lophon (short stay); Sorong; Manokwari (Nov. 15), the ornithologist making trips to Mansiman Isl., Andai, Biak (Korrido), and Sorong; Dec. 27 setting sail again for Lophon; Sarong (end of Jan. 1938); the Crockets in permanent camp at Saindekock (= Sainkedock)², S of Mega River (N. coast of W. New Guinea).

collections:

Botanical specimens mouldered away before they could ever get them out of New Guinea; they were sent to Philadelphia. According to the Curator of Plants there, no plants are preserved in Philadelphia Herb.

literature:

(1) Zoological results+ short itinerary (p. 97-100) published in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 91, 1939.
(2) Charis Crocket: ‘The House in the rainforest’ (Boston 1942).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Crocket, Frederick E. & Mrs Charis Denison
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Of the Denison-Crocket South Pacific Expedition for the Academy of Nat. Sciences of Philadelphia.¹ S.D. Ripley (see there), ornithologist, accompanied the expedition. It was the intention to make botanical explorations too.
	Collecting localities: Denison-Crocket South Pacific Expedition, 1937-38.¹ Departing from Philadelphia in Nov. 1936, sailing from Gloucester, Mass., in the schooner ‘Chiva’; arriving via Rabaul in Dutch NW. New Guinea: Manokwari (beginning of Oct. 1937), staying 1 day and proceeding to Sorong, remaining for a short time and then continuing to Lophon Island of the Schildpad group (Papua Islands) where their base camp was established; N. coast of Misoöl (Oct. 29), inland to the village of Tipon, Kassim River (staying 1 week); Lophon (short stay); Sorong; Manokwari (Nov. 15), the ornithologist making trips to Mansiman Isl., Andai, Biak (Korrido), and Sorong; Dec. 27 setting sail again for Lophon; Sarong (end of Jan. 1938); the Crockets in permanent camp at Saindekock (= Sainkedock)², S of Mega River (N. coast of W. New Guinea).
	collections: Botanical specimens mouldered away before they could ever get them out of New Guinea; they were sent to Philadelphia. According to the Curator of Plants there, no plants are preserved in Philadelphia Herb.
	literature: (1) Zoological results+ short itinerary (p. 97-100) published in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 91, 1939. (2) Charis Crocket: ‘The House in the rainforest’ (Boston 1942).