Notebook on mollusks from Mission Bay collecting trip, 1936

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Abstract

This pocket sized notebook contains brief notes regarding a collecting trip Keen conducted to collect mollusks in Mission Bay, San Diego in 1936. A brief narrative summary of the trip is included on one page at the end of the notebook. Toward the beginning of the notebook, following miscellaneous notes on mollusks, is spawning data on the mollusks collected at Mission Bay; notes are dated July but a year is not provided. Also included is a list of "new species collected at Monterey 1933" toward the end of the notebook.

Date Range

1933, 1936

Start Date

1933

End Date

1936

Access Information

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Topic

  • Animals
  • Mollusks
  • Invertebrates

Place

  • Mission Bay
  • United States
  • California
  • Monterey

Form/Genre

  • Fieldbook record
  • Field notes

Accession #

SIA RU007333

Collection name

A. Myra Keen Papers, circa 1918-1985 and undated, with family material dating from 1839

Physical Description

1 field book

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 7 Folder 5