Business trips took Martin Woodlock Gorman (1853-1926) to the Yukon and southern Alaska at the turn of the century. There a passion for collecting plants took hold, and Gorman collected plants in the Pacific Northwest for the next thirty years. Gorman is credited with collecting several new plant species, some named after him. This project looks to transcribe Gorman’s field notebook from his 1902 expedition to the Iliamna Lake region of Alaska. Deposited at the Smithsonian and now part of the Field Book Project, it documents the specimens he collected. Join with others who are transcribing this important record of his 1902 collecting activities.
Business trips took Martin Woodlock Gorman (1853-1926) to the Yukon and southern Alaska at the turn of the century. There a passion for collecting plants took hold, and Gorman collected plants in the Pacific Northwest for the next thirty years. Gorman is credited with collecting several new plant species, some named after him. This project looks to transcribe Gorman’s field notebook from his 1902 expedition to the Iliamna Lake region of Alaska. Deposited at the Smithsonian and now part of the Field Book Project, it documents the specimens he collected. Join with others who are transcribing this important record of his 1902 collecting activities.
The Iliamna region of southwest Alaska includes the eighth largest lake in the United States and the volcano Mount Iliamna which remains active to this day. The plant specimens from this trip and his other work in 1895 and 1899 were deposited with the United States National Herbarium. You can see Gorman’s specimens in the recently completed M. W. Gorman Alaska Specimens of 1902 transcription project.