Title Page for USDA "Memorandum of Expenses" Log

Summary

The cover page of "Memorandum of Traveling Expenses" issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its employees. This cover page is dated Jan. 3, 1911 to Feb. 4, 1911, and used by Eugene A. Schwarz when he traveled to the Canal Zone, Panama, as part of the Smithsonian Institution's sponsored Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Eugene A. Schwarz (1844 - 1928), was an entomologist who, in 1878, obtained a post with the Department of Agriculture, a function he kept until his death in 1928. He was stationed throughout his career at the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Insects, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, and played a very important role in the organization of its insect collections.

Subject

• United States Dept. of Agriculture
• Panama Canal Zone
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Insects
• United States National Museum Dept. of Entomology
• Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 1910-1912

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7104, Box 1, Folder: 6

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

January-February 1911

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Field Work
• Entomologists

Place

Panama

Form/Genre

• Other
• Digital Image

ID Number

SIA2010-1157

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 2.5w x 4.5h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Digital image

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