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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Pacific Loon at Burlington, 1895 Item Info

Records Committee review for a Pacific Loon at Burlington, IA, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, around 1895. Includes a record review document with votes, photographs of the specimen, notes about the specimen, two letters about the sighting from George Schrimper to Ronald E. Goetz, a letter from Ronald Goetz to Tom Kent, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of the committee on state fauna in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 2:43-51 by C.C. Nutting seen by Paul Bartsch, and referenced in four other publications.
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Title:
Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Pacific Loon at Burlington, 1895
Creator (Organization):
Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
Date Created:
1894-12-31/1994-11-04
Description:
Records Committee review for a Pacific Loon at Burlington, IA, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, around 1895. Includes a record review document with votes, photographs of the specimen, notes about the specimen, two letters about the sighting from George Schrimper to Ronald E. Goetz, a letter from Ronald Goetz to Tom Kent, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of the committee on state fauna in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 2:43-51 by C.C. Nutting seen by Paul Bartsch, and referenced in four other publications.
Subject (Topic):
Birds--Identification Rare birds Ornithological illustration Zoological specimens Taxidermy Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)
Subject (Person):
Hersey, F.S. Savage, David L. DuMont, Philip A. (Philip Atkinson), 1903-1996 Anderson, Rudolph Martin, 1876-1961 Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927
Contributor (Person):
Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934- Goetz, Ronald E. Schrimper, George D.
Contributor (Organization):
Illinois Ornithological Society University of Iowa
Location:
Burlington
Latitude:
40.80754
Longitude:
-91.11292
Language:
eng
Source:
Iowa Ornithologists’ Union records
Call Number:
MS 166
Box:
7
Folder Number:
7
Finding Aid Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w97v03
Contributing Institution:
Iowa State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Publisher:
Iowa State University. Library
Extent:
11 pages
Genre:
administrative records clippings (information artifacts) correspondence field notes photographs
Type:
Text Image
Format:
image/jpeg
Digital Collection Title:
Iowa Ornithologists’ Union collection
Digital Collection Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9513tv8b
Related Resource:
Avian Archives of Iowa Online (avIAn)
Avian Identifier:
3600
Identifier:
iou13399
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w91j9787d

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"Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Pacific Loon at Burlington, 1895", Iowa Ornithologists' Union Collection, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
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