Title
Mearns, Edgar A., California, 1894
Related Titles
Contained In:
Division of Mammals collection, Edgar Alexander Mearns Field Books, 1872 - 1893
Series:
SIA Acc. 12-263
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
1894
Notes
The field book documents Edgar A. Mearns' field work in California, 1894. Entries are dated and headed location. Pages are numbered. Entries discuss travel details, locations (including names of ranches visited), descriptions of terrain, vegetation, flora and fauna observed. This includes lists of fauna observed with information about population abundance, sometimes on habitat. There descriptions can be extensive. Includes lists of birds seen as well as plants, and mammals. Sometimes terrain descriptions include elevation. The notebook is half blank. Locations include Quitovaquito [Quitobaquito], Arizona; Warsaw; Poso de Luis; Sonora; Colorado desert.
Subjects
Arizona
,
Botany
,
California
,
Field notes
,
Mammalogy
,
Ornithology
,
Quitobaquito Hills
,
United States
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
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