Title
Bailey, V. O., District of Columbia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, October 1929 - November 1929
Related Titles
Contained In:
Mammal Section, Bird and Mammal Labs, Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, Division of Mammals
Series:
SIA Acc. 12-443
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1929
Notes
The journal documents Vernon Orlando Bailey's fieldwork in District of Columbia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, October 1 - November 19, 1929. Entries are dated and describe travel from Grand Canyon to Washington, DC. Subject matter includes descriptions of terrain and vegetation enroute, weather, daily activities (including conferences), travel to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with Dr. W. B. Bell; meetings with local officials to discuss deer population management at refuges; observations of birds; specimen collecting; Grizzly Bear account from 1917 (notes indicate Merriam wrote about in publication); observations of bats (populations, habitat) in caves of Kentucky, Old Mammoth cave, and Colossal caverns. Locations include Mosquito Creek, Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania; Cave City, Kentucky.
Subjects
Cave City
,
District of Columbia
,
Field notes
,
Kentucky
,
Mammalogy
,
Mifflinburg
,
Ornithology
,
Pennsylvania
,
United States
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142057
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