Specimens collected on the Mt. Kenia trip, September 18 - October 18, 1909

Related Titles

Contained In: Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers, circa 1871-1916, 1934 and undated

Series: SIA RU007083

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

By

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1909-1910

Notes

Several pages of loose notes and a notebook. Loose notes consist of a list of birds Mearns (and perhaps Loring and Heller) collected on the Mt. Kenia trip (currently Kirinyaga) in British East Africa (currently Kenya), 18 September to 18 October 1909. Also includes mammals at Port Campala (Kampala), 21 December 1909; and Nile River birds (possibly seen but not collected) January 1910. The notebook includes mammals collected by Loring and perhaps Mearns, collector numbers 6826 to 6827, and brief narrative notes from [Narosoita?] River, 10 July 1909.

Subjects

Field notes , Kampala , Kenya , Kirinyaga , Mammalogy , Nile River , Ornithology , Smithsonian African Expedition (1909) , Uganda

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.161495