Keynes, Richard
This fonds consists of pages from a diary kept by Richard Keynes. In it he documents his attempted visit to Funk Island, Newfoundland, in 1939 in order to make a census of the small gannet colony there. While on Funk Island, Keynes and his friend, Oliver Davies, hoped to find Great Auk bones which t...
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| Language: | English |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries
2001
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ead/id/594 |
| Summary: | This fonds consists of pages from a diary kept by Richard Keynes. In it he documents his attempted visit to Funk Island, Newfoundland, in 1939 in order to make a census of the small gannet colony there. While on Funk Island, Keynes and his friend, Oliver Davies, hoped to find Great Auk bones which they planned to sell in order to further finance their North American expedition to survey its entire gannet population. |
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