Field notes, January 1898 - April 1902 : bird observations made in and around North Freedom, Wisconsin, notes of June 1901 were kept on a trip to Minnesota

Title Variants

Alternative: Field Notes, January 1898 - August 1899

Related Titles

Contained In: Alexander Wetmore Papers, circa 1848-1979 and undated

Series: SIA RU007006

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

By

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1898-1899

Notes

Alexander Wetmore used a portion of a "treasurer" book to record observations of birds in Wisconsin from January 1898 to August 1899. Notes were compiled when he was age 12. The folder contains the original copy in an unbound portion of the accounting book measuring close to 9 x13 inches, and two 4 x 6 inch notebooks, in which he hand copied the contents of the "treasurer" book. The first notebook contains a copy of entries January 2 - June 23,1898, and the second contains June 30 - July 2, 1899. The field notes are journal style entries, arranged by date. Locations are usually indicated in the first sentence, often specified by with a landowner's name. Details include common names of birds observed, their physical characteristics, observed activities, descriptions of birdsongs, types of trees in which seen, and sometimes measurements of nests and weather conditions.

Subjects

Field notes , North Freedom , Ornithology , United States , Wisconsin

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122971