Gallegos (José Maria) Report of San Pedro Martir/Guadalupe Island Expedition, July 1923, 1923

Summary

Creators:

Gallegos, José Maria

Abstract:

The report consists of an account of the June-July 1923 expedition to Sierra San Pedro Mártir and Guadalupe Island by a bi-national group of naturalists from Mexico and the United States.

Extent:

0.25 Linear Feet

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Gallegos, Jose Maria. Exploracion en la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir e Isla de Guadalupe, 1923 [Typescript]. Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of one typescript of a 43-page report, in Spanish, commissioned by the Directorate of Biological Studies (Mexico), of an expedition to Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in northern Baja California and a visit to Guadalupe Island, June-July 1923. Photographs include views of San Pedro Mártir, the expedition group, and elephant seals on Guadalupe Island.

Biographical / historical:

Jose Maria Gallegos was a research associate of the National Museum of Mexico. The 1923 bi-national survey of northern Baja California's Sierra San Pedro Mártir (June, 1923) and Guadalupe Island (July 10-22, 1923) was organized by the Society of Biological Studies (Mexico). Expedition members included José Maria Gallegos, National Museum of Mexico; Laurence M. Huey, Curator of Birds and Mammals, San Diego Natural History Museum; herpetologists John Van Denburgh and Joseph R. Slevin of the California Academy of Sciences, and ornithologist Alfred W. Anthony. From 1922 to 1924, Gallegos facilitated Mexican government agreements for bi-national biological surveys and specimen collecting in Baja California, the Los Coronados Islands, and Guadalupe Island and worked with United States naturalists including San Diego Natural History Museum Director Clinton G. Abbott, Dr. Harry Wegeworth at the San Diego Zoological Society, Carroll de Wilton Scott, San Diego Natural History Museum, Ralph Hoffman, Director of the the Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara, California, and Pasadena ornithologist Adriaan Joseph van Rossem. While working in Payo Obispo in southern Mexico, he contracted malaria and died in September 1925.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Baja California (Peninsula)--Discovery and exploration
Mexico--Guadalupe Island
Mexico--Sierra San Pedro Martir
Field notes
Scientific expeditions

Names:

Anthony, A W. (Alfred Webster), 1865-1939
Hoffmann, Ralph, 1870-1932
Huey, Laurence M (Laurence Markham), 1892-1963
Scott, Carroll De Wilton, 1878-1970
Slevin, Joseph Richard 1881-1957
Van Denburgh, John 1872-1924
Van Rossem, A. J. (Adriaan Joseph), 1892-1949

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Terms of access:

Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.

Preferred citation:

Gallegos, Jose Maria. Exploracion en la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir e Isla de Guadalupe, 1923 [Typescript]. Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA.

Location of this collection:

San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library

1788 El Prado, Balboa Park

San Diego, CA 92101, US

Contact:

(619) 255-0225

library@sdnhm.org

Website

Summary

Extent:

0.25 Linear Feet

Background

Scope and content:

1 report, typescript; 50 photographs. Text by Jose Maria Gallegos; photographs by Jose Maria Gallegos and Laurence M. Huey. Dedication by Alfonso Luis Herrera y López, Director, Society of Biological Studies.

The report has been digitized.

Exploracion en la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir e Isla de Guadalupe [Typescript]/Exploration of the Sierra San Pedro Martir and Guadalupe Island, 1923