The field notes document Bohumil Shimek's work in Osceola and Lyon counties, Iowa, 1899. Pages are numbered. Information is entered from back and front. Entries record vegetation seen during travel by rail, including types of trees They list abundance, appearance, age, use as wind breaks, and size, and descriptions of soil. From the other direction includes a list of native tree at Rock Rapids, July 14, 1899 and a list of groves of trees in Lyon county with descriptions and observations about terrain.
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