William H. Dall - Field Book, 1871 (No. 2)

Do you ever have trouble keeping track of all your important thoughts and observations? William H. Dall, a well-respected naturalist, recorded his observations and records of specimens collected in field books. In 1865, he had been selected to take over leadership of the science corps during the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska. In 1871, he was working with the United States Coast Survey in the Bering Sea and Unalaska. This field book mostly contains notes from September 1871 on methods of use and placement of survey equipment for acquiring needed data for survey work and the collected survey data, plus a draft of a report on meteorology. Another Dall field book from 1871 covers a larger span of time, from early fall into the winter. Help us transcribe this Dall field book and learn about the field work many scientists undertook at the end of the 19th century to better understand that region of the world.