Details - Iowa and Nebraska, 1867 (also contains loose material from Kansas and Missouri, n.d.)

Iowa and Nebraska, 1867 (also contains loose material from Kansas and Missouri, n.d.)

Title

Iowa and Nebraska, 1867 (also contains loose material from Kansas and Missouri, n.d.)

Related Titles

Contained In: Fielding B. Meek Papers, 1843-1877 and undated

Series: SIA RU007062

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

By

Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1867

Notes

The field book documents Fielding Meek's work in Nebraska and Iowa, May 17 - July 14, 1867. Pages are numbered, and entries are dated. Includes details about weather; interactions with an Icarian community; daily activities; work with colleagues; terrain (including descriptions of bluffs); strata, formations, and characteristics of stone, sand, and clay; lists of fossils collected (per day); and cross sections. Locations are usually noted, though sometimes by the name of the property owner. There is a list of expenses in the back of the notebook for May 16 - July 27, 1867, and a list of elevations relating to the Central Division Union Pacific Railroad. Locations include the vicinity of Missouri River, Nebraska (Platte Valley, Omaha, Nebraska City), and Iowa (White Breast Creek, Peoria).