Robert Cushman Murphy (1887–1973)
Author of Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition)
About the Author
Image credit: Robert Cushman Murphy.
Works by Robert Cushman Murphy
Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition) (1947) 157 copies
A dead whale or a stove boat; cruise of Daisy in the Atlantic Ocean, June 1912-May 1913 (1967) 12 copies, 1 review
Uccelli rari ed esotici 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1887-04-29
- Date of death
- 1973-03-20
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Brown University (graduated|1911)
- Occupations
- ornithologist
diarist - Organizations
- Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (corresponding member|1939)
American Philosophical Society (corresponding member|1946)
American Ornithologists' Union (president|1948-1950)
American Museum of Natural History (Lamont curator emeritus of birds) - Awards and honors
- National Academy of Sciences (Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal|1936)
American Ornithologists' Union (Brewster medal|1937)
Brown University (hon. ScD|1941)
Explorers Club
John Burroughs Association
Geographic Society (show all 8)
Three Village Central School District, Long Island, New York (Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School|named after him)
Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi|named after him) - Relationships
- Murphy, Grace Emline Barstow (wife|1911|his death|1973)
- Short biography
- Most of Murphy's personal papers are held by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, with a futher group at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Grace E. Barstow Murphy papers are also held by the American Philosophical Society.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Westchester County, New York, USA (1921)
Old Field, New York, USA (after retirement | 1957) - Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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A dead whale or a stove boat;: Cruise of Daisy in the Atlantic Ocean, June 1912-May 1913 by Robert Cushman Murphy
So this is the photographs that Murphy took while sailing with the Daisy- a cruise he wrote about in Logbook for grace. There are some really interesting pictures in here, none, however, that do any justice to a whale. It being, I suspect, virtually impossible to take a good picture of one with the cameras of the time. If you are interested in whaling, this book is well worth your while.
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- Works
- 16
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 289
- Popularity
- #80,897
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6