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The
Whitney South Seas Expedition (1921 - c.1932) to collect bird specimens for the
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), under the initial leadership of
Rollo Beck, was financed by
Harry Payne Whitney, a
thoroughbred horse-breeder and
philanthropist.
Beck, an expert bird collector himself, hired Ernst H. Quayle and Charles Curtis to assist with collecting, including the botanical specimens collected by the expedition.
The expedition visited islands in the south
Pacific region and eventually returned with over 40,000
bird specimens, many plant specimens and an extensive collection of
anthropological items and photographs. In the course of the expedition Beck sealed the extinction of the already critically endangered
Guadalupe Caracara by shooting nine out of eleven birds seen, almost all of the small population of the species remaining.
Using the 75-ton
schooner France, with many different scientists and collectors participating over more than a dozen years, the expedition visited thousands of islands throughout
Micronesia,
Polynesia and
Melanesia. It was administered by a committee at the AMNH and became a focus for attracting funds for research on the biota of the Pacific islands.
Ernst Mayr replaced Beck as leader on one of the later stages of the expedition, to the
Solomon Islands in 1929-1930, and from 1932 to 1953 was Associate Curator, and then Curator, of the Whitney-Rothschild Collection of bird specimens at the AMNH.
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