Alexander Wetmore- Notes, Spring 1900

What were you most passionate about when you were a teenager? Is it something that you enjoy just as much now? In 1900, when future Secretary of the Smithsonian Alexander Wetmore was just fourteen years old, his passion was the same as it was in his adulthood--birds. Wetmore, an ornithologist and curator, kept this set of handwritten notes as a young man, tracking the migration patterns and activity of birds in his native Wisconsin. Wetmore would go on to research birds for the rest of his long and vibrant scientific career! Help our other volunteers to transcribe this set of migration records and make a young Wetmore's scientific exploration available for generations of new researchers.