Notes on a collecting expedition to Chepachet post office, Glocester Township, Providence County, Rhode Island

Related Titles

Contained In: Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers, circa 1871-1916, 1934 and undated

Series: SIA RU007083

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

By

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1900

Notes

Notes on a Collecting Expedition to Chepachet Post Office, Glocester Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, made by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns and his son, Louis di Zerega Mearns,1-8 September 1900. Mearns begins with a narrative summary of the trip, describing setting traps, and describing the general surrounding environment. Included are several lists: 1) plants seen; 2) fish of Chepachet collected; 3) measurements for specimens of Peronyscus collected in Chepachet and Newport; 3) list of mammals of Chepachet and surrounding regions of Glocester Township (as seen by or reported to Mearns).

Subjects

Botany , Chepachet , Field notes , Ichthyology , Mammalogy , Newport , Rhode Island , United States

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142074
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51415256