Title
Field notebook, Chile, 1945
Title Variants
Alternative:
Chile -- 1945
Related Titles
Contained In:
Edward Albert Chapin Field Notebooks, 1937-1947
Series:
SIA Acc. 11-085
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Chapin, Edward A. (Edward Albert) 1894-1969
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1945
Notes
English
Spanish
Chapin traveled to Chile at the invitation of the Chile's Ministry of Agriculture to study insect damage to forests in the country. Entries are chronological and listed by date. Chapin discusses his travel by plane to Chile; travel through the country by train; specimens collected and their corresponding locations; descriptions of the forests of the country; interactions with colleagues; local foods tried; and local sites and towns visited. He collects in the vicinity of Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, Puerto Octay, Valdivia, Temuco, and Termas de Puyehue. Photograph subject matter include local sites, locations visited, collecting sites, and colleagues (identified in captions). Materials collected include Chilean news clippings, photographs, and official papers.
Subjects
Black-and-white photographs
,
Chile
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Clippings (information artifacts)
,
Diary
,
Enotomologists
,
Entomology
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Field notes
,
Insect-plant relationships
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Nielol
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Parasitic insects
,
Plant inspection
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Puerto Montt
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Puerto Octay
,
Puerto Varas
,
Temuco
,
Valdivia
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.94774
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