Title
Field notes and diary, Iowa, August-September 1921
Related Titles
Contained In:
Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1878-1936
Series:
SIA RU007082
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Shimek, Bohumil, 1861-1937
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1921
Notes
The field notes and diary document Bohumil Shimek's work and travel in Iowa, August 6 - October 6, 1921. Pages are tabbed. Entries are dated and describe weather, travel details, time of day, daily activities, colleagues, locations visited (often citing landmarks), plants observed (including lists), specimen collecting, and dated lists of expenses. Includes hand drawn maps of visited sites with notes about locations of trees. Some notes are crossed out. Locations include vicinity of Mason City, and counties of Kossuth, Palo Alto, Clay, Osceola, Lyon, Joy, and Shelby, Iowa.
Subjects
Botany
,
Clay
,
Field notes
,
Iowa
,
Kossuth
,
Lyon
,
Maps
,
Mason City
,
Osceola
,
Palo Alto
,
Shelby
,
United States
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.147902
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