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Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews, 1978

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Covers his youth and education; local field trips with Wetmore; early career at the USNM, including work on the Philadelphia sesquicentennial exhibit, in the Division of Mammals, in the Taxidermy Studio, and on field trips to Haiti in 1928-1929 and to Rampart Cave, Arizona, in 1942; recollections of colleagues; and the history of the Taxidermy Studio; c. 1906-1950.
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Focuses on his field trips to Haiti in 1928-1929 with Arthur J. Poole to collect nesophontes, a fossil shrew, and in 1930 on the Parish-Smithsonian Expedition on the Esperanza, and to West Virginia with Herbert G. Deignan in 1936 to collect mammals and birds; c. 1928-1936.
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