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Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927 : correspondence, 1925 - 1930

by: Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977

Publication date: 1925

Topics: Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expedition (1925-1927), Zoology, Crustaceans

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English; Spanish

Include correspondence (1925-1930) letters "A - R" documenting Waldo Schmitt's work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Consists of letters of introduction; communications with American Ambassadors in South American countries; and correspondence with South American scientists and U. S. National Museum officials concerning preparation for and progress of the expeditions. Correspondence also relates to issues shipping specimens, images sent, travel arrangements, descriptions of locations visited, several allusions to collecting frogs. Correspondents include Charles G. Abbot, Florentino Felippone, Hermann Luederwaldt, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Carlos Moreira, Miles Poindexter, and L. S. Rowe. Letters are in English and Spanish. Locations referred to include locations across South America including Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru

Abstract: Include correspondence (1925-1930) letters "A - R" documenting Waldo Schmitt"s work during Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship Expeditions to the East and West Coasts of South America, 1925-1927. Consists of letters of introduction; communications with American Ambassadors in South American countries; and correspondence with South American scientists and U. S. National Museum officials concerning preparation for and progress of the expeditions. Correspondence also relates to issues shipping specimens, images sent, travel arrangements, descriptions of locations visited, several allusions to collecting frogs. Correspondents include Charles G. Abbot, Florentino Felippone, Hermann Luederwaldt, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Carlos Moreira, Miles Poindexter, and L. S. Rowe. Letters are in English and Spanish. Locations referred to include locations across South America including Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru.