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Emily Hunter
Cataloger, Field Book Project
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Thank you to all who voted for the 2013 Field Book Handwriting Award! We received 76 votes in the short time the survey was posted, and the handwriting sample of Martin M. Moynihan emerged as the clear winner! Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Field Book Project
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Break out your quills! As you may (or may not) know, National Handwriting Day is quickly approaching on January 23rd. Check out these eight handwriting samples taken from field books and vote for your favorite! Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2013 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Floyd Alonzo McClure conducting field work, possibly in China, circa 1919-1950. SIA Acc. T90028. Box 7 Folder 15. No negative number. We get to know some interesting characters by reading field notes. Floyd Alonzo McClure (1897-1970) was one of these characters that I had... Continue reading
Posted Dec 14, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project I’m not a scientist. I appreciate nature, but I’m not someone who has dedicated my life to studying it. Maybe it is because I’m an outsider to the discipline that I’m absolutely fascinated by the range of topics that the fervent scientist pursues. Whatever... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Recently, I had the opportunity to present on visual field notes at Revealing Hidden Treasures: the Smithsonian’s Archives Fair 2012, a day inspired by the month of October--American Archives Month. In case you missed it, here’s a recap: Heteropogon near Masaya, Nicaragua. SIA Acc.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project The Field Book Project was launched in 2010 to build an online registry of field book content. The Registry, which is now under development, will be a resource to bring together field books (within and from outside of the Smithsonian Institution) into one online... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2012 at Field Book Project
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SIA2012-3228. 3. -Q. macrocarpa var. depressa. Prairie border. S.W. corner of Lyon county, Iowa, circa 1878-1936. RU 007082, Box 5, Folder 3; Photographs document Bohumil Shimek's geological and botanical field work, 1878-1936. http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/2012/05/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html Here at the Field Book Project, we’re busy bloggers. We usually churn out two blog posts per... Continue reading
Posted Sep 24, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Portrait of Silberglied with a camera, photographer unknown, July 1971. SIA RU7316, Box 17, Folder 11. SIA2012-7948. In a recent blog post on entomologist Robert E. Silberglied, I touched on the creativity evident in Silberglied’s mixed-media field books. In addition to all of the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Portrait of Robert E. Silberglied, circa 1975. RU 007316, Box 16, folder 7. SIA2012-7932. After cataloging field books from the Department of Botany for the past 7 months, it was both exciting and daunting to tackle the Robert E. Silberglied Papers collection (RU007316) in... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project D. Griffiths field notes, Texas and Mexico, 1905. SIA Acc. 11-106. Photo by Emily Hunter. While cataloging the field notes of David Griffiths (1867-1935) I was intrigued to find interesting markings in one book. The book includes Griffiths’s field notes from Texas and Mexico,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Alice Doolittle, Cataloging Intern, Field Book Project A page from the tin tag record for the 1907-1910 cruise of the Albatross in the Philippines. From National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), collected notes, lists, catalogs, illustrations, and records on fishes, circa 1835-1974 and undated, SIA RU007220. Photo: Alice Doolittle.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2012 at Field Book Project
The Field Book Project would like to introduce two upcoming blog posts contributed by cataloging interns, Richard Jerome and Alice Doolittle. (Read their bios here). Richard Jerome has been cataloging field books at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the National Museum of Natural History Division of Birds. Richard’s blog post,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Sketch showing behavioral observations of bird, from the field notes of Martin H. Moynihan , 1961. SIA Acc. 01-096. Image: SIA 2012-1914. While cataloging field books I often come across rough sketches. The sketches usually depict specimens, and are completed quickly and roughly in... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project 24. Calytrocarya [sic]. Photograph by André Goeldi, circa 1913-1920. SIA Acc. 12-045, Image SIA 2012-3890. In January, I began cataloging field books in the Department of Botany. In my first week, I came across a box of materials related to the botanist André Goeldi.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter and Rusty Russell, Field Book Project Botany field books in National Museum of Natural History library stacks, photo by Anna Friedman Last summer, Field Book Project staff and interns began to catalog the hundreds of field books that are in the care of the Department of Botany.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Often, when I describe what I do as a field book cataloger, I get a few questions. Following the usual “So what are field books?” comes the question, “What are they like?” After some explanations back and forth I usually get to the heart... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Cover of Edward Palmer's field book from Durango, Mexico, 1906, Edward Palmer field notes from the Department of Botany, SIA Acc. 12-346. As a field book cataloger, there are two types of field materials that I tend to come across the most: specimen lists... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project I recently cataloged a small field book by a “Mrs. William Owen”. I found this book unusual (and very interesting) for several reasons. First of all, the diminutive book contains entries on only 16 collected specimens, but the entries are incredibly rich and descriptive;... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter and Lesley Parilla, Field Book Project John Muir with cane, by Francis M. Fritz [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Happy 174th Birthday, John Muir! The Field Book Project team is celebrating a day early; conservationist John Muir was born on April 21, 1838. Who was John Muir?... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project On this Friday the 13th, I would like to bring your attention to some of the very unlucky circumstances that have afflicted scientists collecting in the field. Field work can be exhilarating for the committed collector, but sometimes a series of unfortunate events can... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2012 at Field Book Project
Hi Sara, Thank you for your comment—it’s very interesting to see current employment numbers. I'm glad to know that women are (still) holding their own in the field of Botany!
Toggle Commented Mar 30, 2012 on Women & Botany at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Left to right: Unidentified man, botanist and plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), and two other women (unidentified). For women interested in science in the 19th and early 20th centuries, botany was the most accessible... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2012 at Field Book Project
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Feb 28, 2012
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By Emily Hunter, Field Book Project 92-1712, F. Raymond Fosberg, (1908-1993), botanist and ecologist, looking at leaves on a tree, was on the staff of the National Museum of Natural History from 1966 to 1993, Smithsonian Archives - History Div F. Raymond Fosberg was a botanist with a long and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2012 at Field Book Project
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By Emily Hunter & Lesley Parilla, Field Book Project Whoever said that field books aren’t romantic? Accounts of affection can be found among the pages of botanists, ornithologists, and mammalogists alike. Some include accounts of trips for 50th wedding anniversaries (Lawrence Walkinshaw), or honeymoon plans (Pacific Ocean Biological Survey). Once... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2012 at Field Book Project