Details - Field notes and specimen lists, June 10, 1886 - January 20, 1888

Field notes and specimen lists, June 10, 1886 - January 20, 1888

Title

Field notes and specimen lists, June 10, 1886 - January 20, 1888

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

1886-1888

Notes

This volume contains daily journal entries and specimen lists of birds and mammals seen and collected from 10 June 1886 to 27 July 1887 (with an additional page of notes and bird sketches from January 1888) in Arizona. Journal entries detail daily activities and contain anecdotes of Mearns's and his colleague's travels through Arizona. Collector numbers 4881-5987 (birds) and 437-650 (mammals) and additional numbers for mammals that were previously skipped are included. Notes and sketches of Oak Creek trout and notes on other fishes are also included, although specimen numbers are not included. Also included are copied correspondence, poetry, sketches of birds, lists of vocabulary of the local American Indian population a list of birds of prey, and an index to this volume. Localities include mainly Oak Creek and Fort Verde.