Porto Rico, 1911-1912 : to investigate the economic status of birds and mammals in cooperation with the Porto Rico Department of Agriculture. Correspondence

Title Variants

Alternative: Porto Rico, 1911-1912

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Contained In: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated

Series: SIA RU007006

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1911-1912

Notes

Alexander Wetmore travels to Porto Rico [Puerto Rico] in 1912 to investigate the economic status of birds and mammals in cooperation with the Porto Rico Department of Agriculture, for the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey. The collection includes official and departmental correspondence and catalogs discussing: grants of access, specimens collected, inspection of bird stomachs, financial arrangements, cause of plague outbreak (as to carrier source of plague fleas, i.e. bats, rodents, mongoose), communication with Quarantine Officer of Puerto Rico; and controlling Lachnosterna population on island. Some correspondence is in Spanish. Includes a catalog of reptiles and batrachians collected 1911-1912 (numbered 3-31, scientific name, collecting site (in Puerto Rico, date, and a space for additional location information like elevation).

Subjects

Correspondence , Field notes , Herpetology , Mammalogy , Ornithology , Phyllophaga , Plague , Puerto Rico , Reptiles , United States Dept. of Agriculture

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.128584