Finding Aid to the José Maria Gallegos San Pedro Martir/Guadalupe Island Expedition Report QH11 .G1
Finding aid prepared by Marie Myers
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
2016-03-14
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San Diego, CA 92101
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
Title: José Maria Gallegos San Pedro Martir/Guadalupe Island Expedition Report
Creator:
Gallegos, José Maria
Identifier/Call Number: QH11 .G1
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1923
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Baja California (Peninsula)--Discovery and exploration
Mexico--Guadalupe Island
Mexico--Sierra San Pedro Martir
Field notes
Scientific expeditions
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
Report
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet
Exploration of the Sierra San Pedro Martir and Guadalupe Island, 1923
Exploracion en la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir e Isla de Guadalupe [Typescript]/Exploration of the Sierra San Pedro Martir and
Guadalupe Island, 1923
