North Borneo Expedition (1956), 1954-1960

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File 213/11

Content Summary:

Correspondence and BM(NH) memoranda and sketch maps concerning a bird expedition to North Borneo by RW Sims and E Banks, largely financed by Loke Wan Tho of Singapore, 1956.

1954-1960 (180pp)

Correspondents include: RW Sims (BM(NH), Taiwan and Sandakan); HW Parker (BM(NH)); JW Field (IMR, Kuala Lumpur);

Loke Wan Tho (Singapore(Copy)); GL Carson (Sandakan).

Subjects include: presentation of bird specimens to Sarawak Museum; preliminary report and financial statement of NBE; successful field work; expertise of Dyaks at skinning; collecting in limestone caves; journey to North Borneo on Royal Navy vessel; obtaining loan of rifle from sports club; supplies of antivenin for snakes likely to be encountered; supplies obtained from War Office; problems of access to expedition points; necessary supplies and rations; proposal for expedition.

File also includes: 26 April 1947. Memorandum to NB Kinnear on natural history expedition to North Borneo and MWF Tweedie First Wallace Memorial Lecture in the University of Malaya on 9 April 1953. Reprint from the University of Malaya Zoo Geography.

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