Details - Cruise to Northwest Greenland, 1938, "Report on the Scientific Collecting done in Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic, with Field Notes," by David C. Nutt

Cruise to Northwest Greenland, 1938, "Report on the Scientific Collecting done in Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic, with Field Notes," by David C. Nutt

Title

Cruise to Northwest Greenland, 1938, "Report on the Scientific Collecting done in Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic, with Field Notes," by David C. Nutt

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

1938

Notes

The report is a compilation of field notes from the Greenland Expedition of 1938 with Robert A. Bartlett. Pages are numbered. Details locations and dates, as well as detailed descriptions of terrain, observed and collected flora and fauna (birds, plankton, jellyfish, crustaceans, and insects). Includes birds lists with scientific name, common name, and surrounding environment in which observed; work of participants; and specimens lists per location. Also details with collected items are being sent to the Smithsonian. Includes some latitude and longitude points. Numerous locations in Greenland Newfoundland are included, some of which are Hodgewater, Brigus, Makinson's Grove, Turnavik, Square Island, Godhavn, and Cape York.