Field notes - Baffin Island (Southwest Coast), May-August 1959
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PrintThe field notes document the work of Neal Smith on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, during May to August 1959. The loose sheets contain dated entries headed with location information, and descriptions divided by topic. Information includes observations of birds and their colonies (type, quantity, sex, characteristics, and behavior), work completed and time of day, specimen collecting, weather and temperature. Some entries contain narrative style content describing habitat and nesting sites. Toward the end of the field notes is a specimen catalog with field number, location information, date, characteristics, and drawings of feathers.
1959
May 13, 1959
Aug 27, 1959
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Neal Griffith Smith Papers, circa 1925-1995
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