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