Waldo L. Schmitt Papers : field notes, Bahamas, 1937.

Abstract

This field book is part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. During the summers of 1924 and 1925, Schmitt was at the Carnegie Institution's Marine Laboratory at Tortugas, Florida, surveying the crustacean fauna of the area, identifying crustaceans found in the stomachs of fishes, and taking underwater photographs. In 1925, Schmitt was awarded the Smithsonian's Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship "for the study of the fauna of countries other than the United States." The scholarship enabled him to collect marine invertebrates along the east coast of South America from August to December, 1925, and on the west coast from August 1926 to May 1927. From August 1925 to February 1926, he collected along eastern South America from Brazil south of Buenos Aires. Locations included sites in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. He also participated in field work at Tortugas during the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932. As a guest of G. Huntington Hartford, he explored and collected in the West Indies on the Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition of 1937. This field book, related to this last expedition, contains notes on Schmitt's research at the Bahamas on fish and crustaceans. Four cards with additional notes are inserted in the field book. The notes are organized by station number, their dates range from March 15 to May 12, 1937.

Date Range

1937

Start Date

Mar 15, 1937

End Date

May 13, 1937

Access Information

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Topic

• Crustacea
• Marine Biology
• Natural History
• Zoology
• Crustaceans
• Marine biology
• Natural history

Place

Bahamas

Form/Genre

• Fieldbook record
• Field notes

Accession #

SIA Acc. 17-104

Collection name

Waldo L. Schmitt papers, 1924-1927, 1930-1932, 1937, 1941-1942, 1961-1963

Physical Description

1 field book

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 1, folder 29