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Waldo L. Schmitt Papers : annotated map, Tortugas, 1931-1932

Title

Waldo L. Schmitt Papers : annotated map, Tortugas, 1931-1932

Related Titles

Contained In: Waldo L. Schmitt papers, 1924-1927, 1930-1932, 1937, 1941-1942, 1961-1963

Series: SIA Acc. 17-104

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

By

Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1931-1932

Notes

This annotated map is part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. During the summers of 1924 and 1925, Schmitt was at the Carnegie Institution's Marine Laboratory at Tortugas, Florida, surveying the crustacean fauna of the area, identifying crustaceans found in the stomachs of fishes, and taking underwater photographs. In 1925, Schmitt was awarded the Smithsonian's Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship "for the study of the fauna of countries other than the United States." The scholarship enabled him to collect marine invertebrates along the east coast of South America from August to December, 1925, and on the west coast from August 1926 to May 1927. From August 1925 to February 1926, he collected along eastern South America from Brazil south of Buenos Aires. Locations included sites in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. He also participated in field work at Tortugas during the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932.The annotated map is titled: "Dry Tortugas", with at head of title: "United States, Golf Coast, Florida." It is numbered "No. 585". Its scale is of 1/30000. It is a nautical chart that shows soundings in feet at mean low water. It has an insert of Tortugas Harbor. The map was published in Washington, D.C. in Dec. 1922, by the U.S.C.&G.S.; it is stamped '1930", and annotated "1931-1932. It was used by W. L. Schmitt for a study trip of crustaceans at the Tortugas in the period 1931-1932, and is annotated with numbers (apparently station numbers) and directions.