Bailey, V. O., Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, June 1893 - September 1893

Related Titles

Contained In: Mammal Section, Bird and Mammal Labs, Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, Division of Mammals

Series: SIA Acc. 12-443

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

By

Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1893

Notes

The journal documents Vernon Orlando Bailey's collecting mammal and bird specimens in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, June 19 - September 30, 1893. The entries describe travel and specimen collecting. Descriptions include observations of vegetation (trees and shrubs listed with scientific or common name), terrain, wildlife, specimens collected (type and quantity), habitat, weather, and temperature. Includes tables of specimen data headed with location, listing type and quantity per date. In the end of the notebook is a list of "distances" with location ranges visited. Locations include Pyramid Lake, Wadsworth, Halleck, Nevada; Ogden, Wellsville, Wasatch mountains, Utah; Montpelier Creek, Preuss mountains, Idaho; Wind River mountains, Wyoming.

Subjects

Botany , Field notes , Idaho , Mammalogy , Montpelier Creek , Nevada , Ogden , Ornithology , Preuss Range , United States , Utah , Wadsworth , Wasatch Range , Wind River Range , Wyoming

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.139036