Alexander Wetmore- Migration Records, Spring 1901

When future Secretary of the Smithsonian Alexander Wetmore was a teenager, his interests weren't just flights of fancy. They laid the groundwork for his long and successful scientific career as an ornithologist and curator. Wetmore began studying birds at a young age, and continued through adulthood--not just through the Spring of 1901! This set of bird migration records, taken in his hometown of North Freedom, Wisconsin when he was just fourteen years old, were sent to the US Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Biological Survey. Nine years later, Wetmore got his first job with the USDA, where he continued studying bird migration. Join us in transcribing this set of migration records and make a young Wetmore's scientific exploration available for generations of new researchers. You can also help transcribe, Wetmore's migration records from the Fall of 1901, too.