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identifier/filename
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371-00071b
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title
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Letter, Leoander S. Keyser to Lawrence Bruner, 1903, Jan. 22
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description
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Typewritten letter, 2 pages, from Leoander S. Keyser to Lawrence Bruner, attached to Jan. 29, 1903, "In correspondence with Prof. Wells W. Cooke…"
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Transcription
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Keyser. 723 South Fifth Street. Atchison, Kansas. Jan 29, 1903 Jan. 22, 1903. My Dear Sir: In correspondence with Prof. Wells W. Cooke, of Washington City, D. C., I am referred to you relative to making an expedition to Central America for purposes of bird study. In the first place, I desire to say that I am no collector, but simply a student of birds in the field and a writer on their habits. This you will note by the enclosed circulars descriptive of my books. However, it would afford me much pleasure to be able to join an expedition to Central America if one of the kind is to be formed. I recognize the value of scientific collecting for purposes of accuracy. However, my general idea would be to spend a year in the countrty named, studying the birds with the field-glass, and writing up their habits, etc., the articles to be published in a book something like my "Birds of the Rockies." No popular book has yet been issued on the avi-fauna of Central America, and I believe that such a volume would prove of peculiar interest. In all my work I desire to be scientifically accurate, and hence would appreciate being connected wth a scientific ex-
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date
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1/22/1903
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source/RG#/MS#
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MS 0371
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isPartOf/Collection
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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rights
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For copyright information, please contact the repository.
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publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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language
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English
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