Journal - Collecting Trip to Texas and Arizona, 1929

Title Variants

Alternative: Southwestern trip

Related Titles

Contained In: George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1903-1986 and undated

Series: SIA RU007317

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

By

Myers, George S. (George Sprague), 1905-1985

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1929

Notes

The journal documents the work of George Sprague Myers in the southwestern United States including California, Texas, and Arizona, April 9 - June 3, 1929. Entries are dated and narrative in structure. They describe travel details (time of days, transportation, mileage); field work locations; amphibians and fish observed (referred to by scientific name) including quantity, appearance, and notes relating to their environment; lists of specimens collected with information about kind, locality, sex, and notes; daily work and activities; individuals with whom worked; and photographs taken. Includes some sketches as well as pasted and loose inserts (maps, ephemera, cards). Includes a summary of the trip's results relating to the range of Pseudemys elegans, Arizona elegans, Bufo cognatus, Bufo woodhousii, Bufo cognatus californicus, Aneides lugubris, and Uta miroscutata. Locations include the Los Angeles River.

Subjects

Arizona , California , Field notes , Herpetology , Ichthyology , Los Angeles , Texas , United States

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.109664