Details - Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 : correspondence, 1925 - 1930

Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 : correspondence, 1925 - 1930

Title

Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 : correspondence, 1925 - 1930

Title Variants

Alternative: Correspondence, 1925-1930, "A-R"

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

1925-1927

Notes

Include correspondence (1925-1930) letters "A - R" documenting Waldo Schmitt's work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Consists of letters of introduction; communications with American Ambassadors in South American countries; and correspondence with South American scientists and U. S. National Museum officials concerning preparation for and progress of the expeditions. Correspondence also relates to issues shipping specimens, images sent, travel arrangements, descriptions of locations visited, several allusions to collecting frogs. Correspondents include Charles G. Abbot, Florentino Felippone, Hermann Luederwaldt, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Carlos Moreira, Miles Poindexter, and L. S. Rowe. Letters are in English and Spanish. Locations referred to include locations across South America including Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru.