Another Jungle Journey

Taking frequent trips to some of the world's most remote and inaccessible jungles is all part of the job for Hobart M. Van Deusen '33, a mammalogist of New York's Museum of Natural History. A member of the Museum's department of mammals since 1945, he was recently made assistant curator of the Archbold Collections and Expeditions, a research division of the Museum. This group has received a $13,500 grant to finance the sixth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea planned for later this year; and Van Deusen, who had been on one of the previous Archbold trips to the island, has been chosen to go along on the expedition representing the Museum's mammalogy department. This group of scientists will be based on the Lae Territory of New Guinea and will spend seven months in a series of collecting camps located from sea level to the crests of the central ranges.

Mr. Van Deusen has participated in two previous Archbold Expeditions, his first trip to New Guinea in 1953, and another one to Australia in 1948, as well as a privately sponsored expedition to Colombia in 1952. His first trip for the Museum took him to Florida in 1946 to collect a bear for the Florida black bear habitat group in the hall of North American mammals.

He is also presently a director of the American Society of Mammalogists, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Explorers Club, and Treasurer of Wildlife Preserves Inc., a private corporation engaged in the purchase of outstanding "natural areas" in the eastern United States.