Long Island, October 7, 1920-August 10, 1921

Resource Information

The work Long Island, October 7, 1920-August 10, 1921 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Manuscript, Books.

Label

Long Island, October 7, 1920-August 10, 1921

Creator

• Ferguson, William Cashman, 1861-1930

Subject

• Ferguson, William Cashman, 1861-1930 -- Diaries
• Plants -- New York (State) | Long Island -- Catalogs and collections
• Diaries
• Long Island (N.Y.)
• Field notes
• Plants, Flowering of -- New York (State) | Long Island -- Flowering time

Genre

• Diaries
• Catalogs and collections
• Field notes

Language

eng

Summary

This diary documents William Cashman Ferguson's botanical observations in Long Island, New York from October 7, 1920-August 10, 1921. The book contains entries from Ferguson's walks and travels throughout Long Island. He notes names of plants observed and/or collected, date, location, and observations on flowering time and other descriptive details about plants and habitats. Ferguson began to number his specimens in this notebook, beginning with the May 10, 1921 entry. Specimen numbers included are 1-660. Ferguson (1861-1930) received a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University, and specialized in applied chemistry with a particular interest in metallurgy. Late in life, he became interested in botany, particularly the flora of Long Island, about which he wrote several articles for the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Cataloging source

VXG

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries