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- Call Number:
- C0661
- Repository:
- Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
- Extent:
- Language:
- English
- Preferred Citation:
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Beebe Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
- Date:
- 1830-1961 (inclusive) and 1920-1959 (bulk)
- Creator:
- Beebe, William
- Form:
- Correspondence, Journals., and Photoprints.
- Abstract:
- Consists of papers of American naturalist William Beebe, primarily relating to his association with the New York Zoological Society (NYZS).
William Beebe (1877-1962) was an American naturalist, marine biologist, explorer, and writer. After attending Columbia, Beebe was appointed to the New York Zoological Society as curator of ornithology and then later as the director of the Department of Tropical Research. Throughout his lifetime Beebe led several successful expeditions to support his research and writing. He is credited alongside engineer Otis Burton as being the designer of the bathysphere, a diving vessel that allowed Beebe to observe marine life in the deep sea.
The collection consists of journals, writings, correspondence, scrapbooks, documents, photographs, and printed matter of William Beebe, primarily relating to his association with the New York Zoological Society (NYZS). There are 75 journal volumes beginning in 1890 and including diary entries, natural history notes, collection lists, essay material, and course notes taken at Columbia University. F "[Gould] has written a biography worthy of Beebe. It makes compelling and, better yet, inspiring reading for anyone interested in the natural world." ― Seattle Times BERMUDA, 1930 — Ever since the first sailor set out on the first sea, the world beneath the waves had been a mystery. Even in oceans mapped around the globe, no one knew what lived, swam, or slithered more than 200 feet below. Jules Verne imagined monsters “20,000 leagues under the sea.” “The ocean,” wrote Edmund Burke, “is the object of no small terror.” And then. . . On board the HMS Ready, two American explorers prepare to go deep. Deeper than the deepest helmet diver, they will descend a thousand, two thousand feet down, down. . . . The men are your typical explorer types — rugged, “dashing,” a little crazy, perhaps. But more curious is the craft that will take them on a “round trip to Davy Jones Locker.” The Bathysphere seems simple. A steel cylinder with windows. Yet to withstand pressure topping a thousand pounds per square inch, the steel is an inch thick, the quartz windows three inches. The Bathysphere weighs 5,000 pounds, yet two men must cram into a space less than five feet across. Wedged behind the 400 pound door, hoisted by a steel cable, the explorers splash into the sea and sink, sink. By phone cable, they describe what they see. 100 feet — All red light is gone. Jellyfish glow. 200 feet — pilot fish, pure white with jet black bands. 500 feet, 600, 700. . . By 1930, the pilot, William Beebe, was a household name. A naturalist’s Indiana Jones, Beebe dropped out of college to work at a zoo, then set out on expeditions. Borneo. Java. The Himalayas. . . Collecting specimens, writing science papers and best-selling books, Beebe hobnobbed with Theodore Roosevelt and dined with famous authors. He loved costume parties, played the banjo, and clung to his teenage dream — “to be a Naturalist is better than to be a King." By 1926, Beebe had explored much of the globe — on .Review
"A vivid portrait." ― The New York Times
"In this delightful book Carol Gould has brought to light something we may have forgotten: the intensive pursuit of natural history in the early part of the twentieth century. And there is no better way of telling the story than around the central and fascinating figure of William Beebe." -- John Tyler Bonner ― author of Lives of a Biologist
"A childhood spent collecting bugs and birds led William Beebe to a job at the Bronx Zoo and then to an extraordinary career of exploration, science, and writing. He wrote so beautifully of tropical and undersea wildlife that his books influenced thousands, he went deeper than anyone ever before to observe ocean depths, and he carried out plant-by-plant, bird-by-bird, beetle-by-butterfly studies that were among the first in tropical ecology. And yet he still found time to become a confidant of Teddy Roosevelt, a familiar of Noël Coward and Katherine Hepburn, and an accomplished tennis player. Carol Gould gained first access to Beebe's meticulous notes but delved much deeper. The result is an engrossing portrait of a very human but unusually important naturalist of the 20th century." -- William Conway ― Senior Conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society
"William Beebe's life and work form a vital link between the age of Wallace and Darwin and today's heroes of conservation. Carol Gould's magnificent biography vividly brings Beebe to life. His life should be an inspiration both to future conservation biologists and to anyone who started out collecting bugs in their own back yard." -- Andrew P. Dobson ― author of Conservation and Biodiversity
"William Beebe was one of my boyhood heroes, who I followed through his articles in National Geographic Magazine. Now, thanks to the wonderful and thorough research of Ca DEEP, DEEP DOWN. . .