If you had to summarize your days activities in just a few sentences, what would you focus on? Chief Naturalist Vernon Orlando Bailey (1864-1942) of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Biological Survey covers over four months on twenty-six pages in a small field notebook as he traveled through North Dakota, Oregon and California during the late summer and early fall of 1909. Join other volunteers and help us transcribe his chronological entries. This will help us to match these entries to the other reports Bailey submitted during this time and his field book of specimens identified or collected.
If you had to summarize your days activities in just a few sentences, what would you focus on? Chief Naturalist Vernon Orlando Bailey (1864-1942) of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Biological Survey covers over four months on twenty-six pages in a small field notebook as he traveled through North Dakota, Oregon and California during the late summer and early fall of 1909. Join other volunteers and help us transcribe his chronological entries. This will help us to match these entries to the other reports Bailey submitted during this time and his field book of specimens identified or collected.
To see more of Vernon Bailey's field journals, reports and personal papers, consult the Smithsonian Institution Archives' collection "Vernon Orlando Bailey Papers, 1889-1941 and undated" (Record Unit 007267).