Mary Agnes Chase notes, 1922 trip

Title Variants

Alternative: Chase Europe 1922

Related Titles

Contained In: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965
Series: SIA RU000229
Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Chase, Agnes, 1869-1963

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1922

Notes

English

German

Mary Agnes Chase records details for her travels to Europe to collect and exchange materials and specimens for the United States Department of Agriculture. The diary is typed, and listed chronologically. She travels to fherbariums across western Europe, including details about the voyage; passengers and acquaintances; interactions with colleagues; descriptions of herbariums, their condition and organization; lack of materials and current publications in herbariums and their libraries; travel by train; the lingering political, physical and economic aftermath of World War I; and personal and shared opinions on Prohibition and Woodrow Wilson. She traveled France (Paris); Austria (Vienna); Germany (Berlin, Potsdam, Munich); and Italy (Tuscany, Pisa, Brenner [Brennero]). She collects specimens with Dr. Edmund Hackel, page 54.

Subjects

Austria , Berlin , Botany , Brennero , Diary , Field notes , France , Germany , Grasses , Herbarium , Italy , Munich , Paris , Pisa , Potsdam , Reconstruction (1914-1939) , Tuscany , United States Dept. of Agriculture , Vienna

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection
Women in Natural History

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100835