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American Museum Congo Expedition InventoryThis inventory provides an overview of the materials relating to the The American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915). Many of these materials have been digitized and incorporated into this web site. Others are available in the American Museum of Natural History Library or in various departments of the museum. The expedition was headed by mammalogist Herbert Lang and ornithologist James P. Chapin. Its purpose was to make a biological and zoological survey of the Congo; to collect specimens and ethnological material. A. 1916 estimates of material collected by the Expedition:Mammals: 5,800 Birds: 6,241 Reptiles & Batrachians: 4,800 Fishes: 5,400 Total of Vertebrates: 22,241 Invertebrates - land (including Entomology): 110,000 Molluscs: 8,000 Crustaceans: 4,000 (land and sea): 20,000 Myriapoda: 500 Arachnids: 5,000 Isoptera: 2,000 Coleoptera: 15,000 Hemiptera & Homoptera: 14,000 Hymenoptera: 20,000 Diptera: 8,000 Orthoptera: 1,500 Lepidoptera: 7,500 Ethnographical material: 3,800 Photographs (40 albums): 9,500 |
