Alexander Wetmore - Field notes, January 1898 - April 1902 around North Freedom, Wisconsin, No. 2

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It can be challenging to predict which childhood interest will trigger a lifelong passion. In the case of Alexander Wetmore, it was pelicans he watched while on vacation in Florida. He was eight years old. His interest in birds never flagged and led to a correspondence with Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Baird in the late 1890's. Later still, he served as the director of the National Zoological Park and the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary. Join other volunpeers in transcribing the second of two field journals a teen-aged Wetmore kept of observations around his Wisconsin home.

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