Field notebook, Chile, 1945

Title Variants

Alternative: Chile -- 1945

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Contained In: Edward Albert Chapin Field Notebooks, 1937-1947

Series: SIA Acc. 11-085

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

By

Chapin, Edward A. (Edward Albert) 1894-1969

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1945

Notes

English

Spanish

Chapin traveled to Chile at the invitation of the Chile's Ministry of Agriculture to study insect damage to forests in the country. Entries are chronological and listed by date. Chapin discusses his travel by plane to Chile; travel through the country by train; specimens collected and their corresponding locations; descriptions of the forests of the country; interactions with colleagues; local foods tried; and local sites and towns visited. He collects in the vicinity of Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, Puerto Octay, Valdivia, Temuco, and Termas de Puyehue. Photograph subject matter include local sites, locations visited, collecting sites, and colleagues (identified in captions). Materials collected include Chilean news clippings, photographs, and official papers.

Subjects

Black-and-white photographs , Chile , Clippings (information artifacts) , Diary , Enotomologists , Entomology , Field notes , Insect-plant relationships , Nielol , Parasitic insects , Plant inspection , Puerto Montt , Puerto Octay , Puerto Varas , Temuco , Valdivia

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.94774