Field notes, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, July 18-September 5, 1892

Related Titles

Contained In: Vernon Bailey Papers, 1889-1941 and undated, field notes and journals, 1889-1941

Series: SIA RU007267

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

1892

Notes

English

This field book describes the collecting efforts of Bailey through Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia from July through early September 1892. The notebook is primarily comprised of lists of mammalian scientific names organized by date and place name with botanical and ornithological lists interspersed. It begins with a listed entitled, "Prairie dogs report" followed by an entry from Cedar Vale, Kansas, and ends with a list from Kiowa, Kansas. The notebook contains two drawings of prairie dogs and a drawing of "coon tracks". Measurement and sex of specimens taken from the field are sometimes provided.

Subjects

Botany , Field notes , Kansas , Mammalogy , Mammologists , Oklahoma , Ornithology , Texas , United States , United States Dept. of Agriculture , Virginia , West Virginia

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.95339