The field notes document Bohumil Shimek's work in Harrison and Monona counties, Iowa, October 23 - November 11, 1908. Pages are numbered. Entries are dated, and include travel information for a series of trips in Iowa, documenting weather, travel methods, locations, and plants seen. There is a series of descriptions of cuts in terrain which are numbered and describe layers, composition, appearance, color), photographs taken, sketches and maps, and bluffs. Locations include Mapleton, Blencoe, and Ute, Iowa.
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