Mearns, Edgar A., California, 1894

Related Titles

Contained In: Division of Mammals collection, Edgar Alexander Mearns Field Books, 1872 - 1893

Series: SIA Acc. 12-263

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

1894

Notes

The field book documents Edgar A. Mearns' field work in California, 1894. Entries are dated and headed location. Pages are numbered. Entries discuss travel details, locations (including names of ranches visited), descriptions of terrain, vegetation, flora and fauna observed. This includes lists of fauna observed with information about population abundance, sometimes on habitat. There descriptions can be extensive. Includes lists of birds seen as well as plants, and mammals. Sometimes terrain descriptions include elevation. The notebook is half blank. Locations include Quitovaquito [Quitobaquito], Arizona; Warsaw; Poso de Luis; Sonora; Colorado desert.

Subjects

Arizona , Botany , California , Field notes , Mammalogy , Ornithology , Quitobaquito Hills , United States

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English