Oversize photograph of Machris Brazil expedition base camp #2 in the Serra Dourada range headwaters of the Rio Tocantins, Goias, Brazil.

Oversize photograph of Machris Brazil expedition base camp #2 in the Serra Dourada range headwaters of the Rio Tocantins, Goias, Brazil.

This file contains correspondence regarding the Machris narwhal hunting expedition.

This file contains correspondence regarding a narwhal film production by Maurice A. Machris and includes Machris film collection accession data, narwhal expedition planning, contribution and donation records from Maurice A. Machris, and an exhchange with Paquita Machris.

This file contains a report given by Maurice A. Machris to the Board of Supervisors regarding elephant habitat group and African expedition planning.

The Maurice Machris film collection consists of 1432 film reels, the bulk of which are 16mm films and also include 34mm film, 16mm magnetic audio tape, and 35mm sound loops. These scientific and ethnographic films document Museum collecting expeditions sponsored by prominent museum patron Maurice A. Machris (1905-1980), primarily in East Africa and South Asia shot between 1955-1979.

This file contains correspondence, meeting programs, habitat division reports, and employee rosters. It includes a special report given by the Habitats division and references collecting expeditions to Wyoming and Alaska, a wildlife exhibition, and donation of money from Sid Grauman to fund habitat groups.

The Melville N. Lincoln journals consist of 35 handwritten and typed journals kept by Melville N. Lincoln, former Curator of Habitats at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. These personal journals document the daily activities of Melville Lincoln throughout his career at the Museum, and include daily logs, habitat group work, meetings, and collecting expedition notes.

This file contains correspondence related to the Miller Expedition to Mexico and includes a list of mammals to be collected for the Museum.

This file contains correspondence and specimen lists regarding paleontological and archaeological salvage operations of the Upper Oso Dam site.