The papers document field work of Paul Bartsch in the Caribbean during 1930. Contains a list of specimens that collected organized by tin tag number 100 to 314 (and transcript of the list); species descriptions with date and location information; transcript of field notes for June 3 - September 27. These are narrative in structure and dated. They describe travel details, daily work and interactions, specimen collecting, observations of habitat and wildlife including birds.
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