Blayney Percival collection of East African Birds (1930) as well expeditions to Greenland, East Africa, Mexico, and the American West. His contributions also added thousands of birds to the Academy’s collection, helping finance the purchase of the A. A trustee of the Academy, Carpenter brought down the Cape Buffalo, Pronghorn Antelope, and Mule Deer that are still on public display at the museum. But his leisure pursuits would take him far from the world of industrial chemistry, out into the wild spaces where he hunted big game for the Academy of Natural Sciences as well as his own trophy room.
Carpenter was one of the men responsible for the development and proliferation of consumer plastics in the twentieth century.
The only thing that competed with the sharpness of Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter’s business acumen was his sportsman’s instincts.
