Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the West Coast of South America, 1926-1927 : diary, vol. 4, January 16, 1927 - March 9, 1927

Title Variants

Alternative: Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the West Coast of South America, 1926-1927 : diary, volumes 4-5, January 16, 1927 - June 6, 1927 (1 of 2)

Related Titles

Contained In: Waldo L. Schmitt Papers, 1907-1978

Series: SIA RU007231

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

By

Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1926-1927

Notes

This is the fourth of five diaries documenting Waldo Schmitt's work during the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition to the West Coast of South America, 1926-1927. It covers January 16, 1927 - March 9, 1927. Entries are headed by date and are journal style. Subject matter covers personal and professional daily activities; interactions with colleagues and acquaintances; specimen collecting; descriptions of locations visited including terrain; weather; personal observations about places visited and people met. Locations include the vicinity of Chile (Valparaiso Isla Chiloé, and Puerto Montt).

Subjects

Chile , Chiloé, Isla , Crustaceans , Diary , Field notes , Puerto Montt , South America , Valparaiso , Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedi , Zoology

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129117