Whale research by Roy Chapman Andrews in Japan and Korea, and Retracing his Footsteps around Japan in 1909-1910

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  • ロイ・チャップマン・アンドリュースの日本と朝鮮での鯨類調査と1909‒1910年の日本周辺での行程
  • ロイ・チャップマン・アンドリュースの日本と朝鮮での鯨類調査と1909-1910年の日本周辺での行程
  • ロイ ・ チャップマン ・ アンド リュース ノ ニホン ト チョウセン デ ノ クジラルイ チョウサ ト 1909-1910ネン ノ ニホン シュウヘン デ ノ コウテイ

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<p>We followed the footsteps of Roy Chapman Andrews (RCA) when he studied whales, dolphins and porpoises in Japan in 1910, after being a member of the Smithsonian Institution’s USS Albatross Philippine Expedition, and Korea in 1912. We examined the cetacean specimens that RCA collected and his correspondence, publications, photographs and journals preserved in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York. At Kii-Oshima, RCA examined eight whales and secured three skeletons and at Ayukawa he examined over 62 whales and collected a large male sperm whale. At Ulsan he studied 32 whales including 23 gray and collected several skeletons. His research activities were whole-heartedly supported by Toyo Hogei K.K. (Oriental Whaling Company) officers and workers at both the head office and the land stations. The company also presented the AMNH with two skeletons of Baird's beaked whale and killer whale. The skeletons of the sperm whale, Baird’s beaked whale and killer whale were exhibited in the AMNH between 1933 and 1962, and the gray whale skeleton has been on exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. since the early 1960s. RCA also visited and took photographs in Yokohama, Nikko, Kobe, Kyoto, Moji, Taiwan, Okinawa, Tosa-Shimizu and the Seto Inland Sea. RCA photographs at Kii-Oshima, Ayukawa and Ulsan are the only images of early modern whaling. All these photographs and his archives are an important resource for future scientific and anthropological studies.</p>

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  • Japan Cetology

    Japan Cetology 24 (0), 33-61, 2014

    The Cetology Study Group of Japan

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