Overview
Journals, notebooks, and account books of the American anthropologist Frederick R. Wulsin.
Dates
- Creation: 1914-1932
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
3 linear feet (58 volumes)Includes journals, notebooks, and account books documenting Wulsin's zoological collecting in China and other regions in East Asia from 1921 to 1924 for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the National Geographic Society, and trips to East Africa and Madagascar from 1914 to 1915. Notes pertain to equipment, provisions, personnel, photography, transport, weather and other matters. Also field notes for archaeological collecting in Persia from 1930 to 1932; and journal, 1914, recording a voyage to Lesser Antilles and other islands.
Biographical / Historical
Wulsin was an anthropologist who collected zoological specimens in East Africa and Madagascar, 1914-1915; and in China, Mongolia, Kokonor, and Indo-China, 1921-1924. He made archaeological journeys to the Belgian Congo and French Equatorial Africa, 1927-1928; and to Persia, 1930-1931. Wulsin also served as first lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I and taught anthropology at Boston University, 1935-1936, and Tufts, 1945-1957. He died in 1961.
Arrangement
Organized into two series:
- MS Am 1329
- MS Am 1330
Immediate Source of Acquisition
*42M-1153 - *42M-1179. Gift of Frederick R. Wulsin; received: 1941.
- Title
- Wulsin, Frederick Roelker, 1891-1961. Frederick Roelker Wulsin papers: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00399
Repository Details
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