Duffin Jacalyn - Stanleys Dream

STANLEYS DREAM

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Stanleys Dream

The Medical Expedition to Easter Island

JACALYN DUFFIN

Carleton Library Series 247

McGill-Queens University Press

Montreal & Kingston London Chicago

McGill-Queens University Press 2019

ISBN 978-0-7735-5710-9 (cloth)

ISBN 978-0-7735-5780-2 (ePDF)

ISBN 978-0-7735-5781-9 (ePUB)

Legal deposit third quarter 2019

Bibliothque nationale du Qubec

Printed in Canada on acid-free paper

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Stanleys dream : the Medical Expedition to Easter Island / Jacalyn Duffin.

Names: Duffin, Jacalyn, author.

Series: Carleton library series ; 247.

Description: Series statement: Carleton Library series ; 247 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190094478 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190094877 | ISBN 9780773557109 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780773557802 (ePDF) | ISBN 9780773557819 (ePUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island (19641965) | LCSH: Skoryna, Stanley C. | LCSH: Medical expeditionsEaster IslandHistory20th century. | LCSH: MedicineResearchEaster IslandHistory20th century. | LCSH: Medical careEaster IslandHistory20th century. | LCSH: Easter IslandEnvironmental conditions20th century.

Classification: LCC RA390.E27 D84 2019 | DDC 610.7209618dc23

This book was typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon.

For

Tycho, Maxwell, Wolf, and Kensington Rose

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Acknowledgments

It is difficult to imagine how this book could have been written without the Internet, which located people and information on five continents. Once found and targeted, all the individuals named below contributed promptly with inspiring enthusiasm and generosity. Archivists at the University of British Columbia, Library and Archives Canada, and McGill University were patient and helpful as I mined their collections. Their colleagues elsewhere went out of their way to search for and provide documents: Lise Couillard and Annie Simard at the Archives de lInstitut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS); Pierre Payment at the inrs-Institute Armand-Frappier; Reynald Erard at the Archives of the World Health Organization in Geneva; Earl Spamer of the American Philosophical Society; Jeff Kerr at the Center for the History of Microbiology/American Society for Microbiology Archives; Debbie Taylor of the Alberta Trailer Company; Robert Hamilton of Woodbridge; Darren Yearsley at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Archives; and Barry B. Smith at the Nova Scotia Archives. In addition, librarians and archivists at Queens University, particularly Deirdre Bryden, Bonnie Brooks, Jane Reeves, and the intrepid staff of interlibrary loan, gathered resources from around the world, cheerfully accepting half-formulated requests and viewing the tedious sleuthing as fun.

In looking for the material products of the Medical Expedition to Easter Island (METEI, pron. mt-eye), I benefited from the expertise of scholars and curators affiliated with many museums: Barbara Lawson of the Redpath Museum, Stphanie Boucher of the Lyman Entomological Museum, and Heather McNabb of the McCord Museum, all in Montreal; Elise Rowsome, Sarah Smith, and Alan Elder of the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa; Judy Chelnick, Adrienne Kaeppler, and David R. Hunt of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, dc; Arleyn Simon, Christopher Stojanowksi, and Gary Schwartz in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University; Annamria Brny of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest; Silvano Landert of Culture Collection of Switzerland; Dr Guy Prodhom and Professor Gilbert Greub of the Universit de Lausanne; physicist Roy Bishop of Acadia University; retired curator Randall Brooks of the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology; Don McPhail, Eric Taylor, and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia; and Dr Dirk Huyer.