Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995)

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995) on a field trip during the 1969 American Ornithologists' Union Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas. "Bea" Wetmore worked as a secretary and translator for various entities of the Netherlands Government and the World Health Organization. After marrying Alexander Wetmore (sixth Smithsonian Secretary) in 1953, she joined him on most of his collecting expeditions to Panama and the Dutch West Indies and assisted him in his numerous publications in ornithology