Mary Agnes Chase correspondence, 1929 trip to Brazil
date: label: Date Range
content: 1929-1930
label: Start Date
content: 19291009
label: End Date
content: 19300302
notes: label: Abstract
content: Through correspondence written to A. S. Hitchcock, Mary Agnes Chase details her collecting efforts in Brazil in 1929-1930. She discusses her time in various sites in Brazil; backgrounds of Brazilian colleagues; accommodations; expenses; specimens sent to the USDA; difficulties with customs; conditions and organization of grass collections in Brazil; state of libraries and access to professional publications; and Hitchcock's health and operation. She details two major collecting trips in the country: Serra da Mar, Caparaó and the vicinity of Campo Grande. She also collected in the vicinity of Pico de Bandeira, Espirito Santo, Poços de Caldas, Bello Harizonte, Diamantina Minas, and Tres Lagoas. |Letters are dated and sometime paginated. For significant collecting trips, the site is listed at the top of the correspondence.
place: label: Place
content: Brazil
label: Place
content: Espirito Santo
label: Place
content: Poços de Caldas
label: Place
content: Diamantina
label: Place
content: Três Lagoas
label: Place
content: Campo Grande
label: Place
content: Serra do Mar
label: Place
content: Caparaó, Serra do
label: Place
content: Rio de Janeiro
topic: label: Topic
content: Botany
label: Topic
content: Botanists
label: Topic
content: Grasses
setName: label: See more records from this collection
content: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965
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content: Chase, Mary Agnes, 1869-1963
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Smithsonian Field Book Project
identifier: label: Accession #
content: SIA RU000229
objectType: label: Record type
content: Fieldbook record
label: Object Type
content: Field notes
label: Object Type
content: Correspondence
objectRights: label: Access Information
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physicalDescription: label: Collection name
content: United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965
label: Physical Description
content: 1 folder
label: Physical Location
content: Smithsonian Institution Archives
label: Sublocation
content: Box 17