Mary Agnes Chase correspondence, 1929 trip to Brazil

Related Titles

Contained In: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965

Series: SIA RU000229

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

By

Chase, Agnes, 1869-1963

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1929-1930

Notes

English

Through correspondence written to A. S. Hitchcock, Mary Agnes Chase details her collecting efforts in Brazil in 1929-1930. She discusses her time in various sites in Brazil; backgrounds of Brazilian colleagues; accommodations; expenses; specimens sent to the USDA; difficulties with customs; conditions and organization of grass collections in Brazil; state of libraries and access to professional publications; and Hitchcock's health and operation. She details two major collecting trips in the country: Serra da Mar, Caparaó and the vicinity of Campo Grande. She also collected in the vicinity of Pico de Bandeira, Espirito Santo, Poços de Caldas, Bello Harizonte, Diamantina Minas, and Tres Lagoas. Letters are dated and sometime paginated. For significant collecting trips, the site is listed at the top of the correspondence.

Subjects

Botanists , Botany , Brazil , Campo Grande , Caparaó, Serra do , Correspondence , Diamantina , Espirito Santo , Field notes , Grasses , Poços de Caldas , Rio de Janeiro , Serra do Mar , Três Lagoas

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Women in Natural History

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100839