Maurice C. Tanquary

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Crocker Land Expedition notes, July 1913-April 1914
Diary July 1913- March 1914.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, Feb-march 1914
Journal entries from Feb. 8, to Feb. 20, 1914, from Etah to Ellesmere, the first failed attempt to start the trip to Crocker Land. Mumps breaks out and the team returns to Etah.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, Dec 1914-March 1915
Trip to Upernavik for mail.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, May 1915
Daily journal/ comings and goings of different people 5/5/15-5/29/15.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, Jan. and April 1916
Journal, January 16 – 19 and April 10-28, 1916, partial account of journey from Parker Snow Bay to Hostonsbog (Holsteinsberg).

Crocker Land Expedition notes, May – June 1914
Miscellaneous notes, mostly calculations of altitude and distance, including distance to Reindeer Point and a list of caches with directions to them.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, Oct. 1913-Dec. 1915, accession notes
Record of specimens collected from 1913-1915 with accession number, date, specimen, who collected it, location, notes, which includes animals, insects, and parasites. Also contains a table documenting hunted specimens (e.g. arctic hare, ptarmigan, duck, fox) and who hunted them.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, zoology notes
Observations on animals made in 1913 and 1914.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, Dictionary: English to Eskimo
List of English words/phrases and their translations into Inuktun, copied from MacMillan.

Crocker Land Expedition notes, biological notes
Observations on zoology and entomology.

Biological Experiments
Biological experiments at Umanak, N.Greenland, summer of 1914, experiments rearing larvae.