Record #:

8927

Author(s):

Johns, Grace R.

Abstract:

Harry Davis was born at Cape Hatteras in 1896 was educated at Beaufort High School. Later, Davis graduated as a geologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1920 and became the assistant director at the State Museum in Raleigh, where H. H. Brimley was director. One of Davis's most memorable tasks was the recovery of a mammoth sperm whale carcass that washed up at Wrightsville Beach on April 6, 1926.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1972, p4-5, 27, por

Subject(s):

Museums--Raleigh; Naturalists; Davis, Harry Towles, 1896-1966