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Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Medical Expedition to Easter Island (M.E.T.E.I.) collection
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:University of British Columbia. Library, collector.
  
• Published/Created:1962-1980
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-3.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Efford, Ian.
  Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island.
  
• Description:61 cm of textual records
  
• Summary:The collection consists of assorted records divided by subject which were generated during the expedition and general material about Easter Island subsequently added.
  
• Biography/history note:The Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island (M.E.T.E.I.) under the direction of Stanley C. Skoryna of McGill University, was organized to ©study the relative role of environment and hereditary factors on an isolated population. The twenty-five person expedition included two UBC participants, Ian Efford (Zoology) and graduate student Jack Mathias. Sponsored by the World Health Organization the M.E.T.E.I had three objectives: 1) to conduct multi-disciplinary studies of native populations; 2) to study methods of collection and preservation of biological materials on field conditions, and; 3) to assist the population with medical problems. The expedition operated between October 1964 and February 1965.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:File list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the collection.