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Letter, Unknown (likely Frank H. Shoemaker) to Robert Wolcott, 1906, Oct. 16
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description
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Typewritten letter, 1 page, from unknown (likely Frank H. Shoemaker) to Robert H. Wolcott, "I left Omaha on September 26th, and will give you an account of my collecting since that date range."
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At Oakland, Cal., Oct. 16, 1906
Dear Wolcott:
I left Omaha on September 26th, and will give you an account of my
collecting since that date. At Salt Lake City I had an hour at the base
of the Wahsatch range; the country was very dry and the collecting poor,
but I got a number of specimens. At Portland I spent an hour back of
the City Park collecting Carabidae - notable among them being seven speci-
mens of Cychrus, the little fellows which you may remember having seen
among my former Portland "takes." Van Dyke has been specializing on this
group, and it did me a heap of good to find that he had not a specimen
of this little fellow (fulleri, if I remember correctly). I gave him
four. Since reaching Oakland I have distributed my evenings quite im-
partially between Van Dyke and Fuchs; the former now lives and has his
office at 1658 Bush Street, San Francisco, and the latter resides at
2322 Bank Street, Alameda. On the 8th I went out with good Herr Fuchs,
who certainly can get over the ground for a gentleman between 65 and 70;
we spent two hours collecting Cicindela senilis at Lake Merritt. I got
113. The next morning I went alone and got 45, and 49 on the third morn-
ing, with a sprinkling of oregona. Lake Merritt is a good place for the
species, and is ridiculously convenient, being less than ten minutes
car ride from our Oakland office. Saturday ^evg. I went over to the city; Van
Dyke and I spent two hours with Dr. Blaisdell, then returned to 1658 Bush
and went to bed. The next morning we got up a right smart after sunrise,
and in the course of time found our way to the beach two miles south of
the Cliff House, where we proceeded to collect. There was quite a strong
breeze and it was too cold for tigers, but we got a lot of fine things
under dead fish and birds, and decayed melons, apples, etc. The musk-
melons were a particularly rich field. I think I collected not less
than 300 specimens, of perhaps 20 species. These various acquisitions,
with a nice lot of C. haemorrhagica, C. oregona var. maricopa (black var.),
and C. pusilla var. lunalonga, given me by Fuchs from this summer's col-
lecting, represent about all I have to show for the trip thus far, but
there are probably 800 specimens to put up - a good two hours' work, even
when I am feeling well, and two hours' and seven minutes work with my
usual poor health, egad!
We are to be here until Saturday; then we pull out for Tucson, where
it may be that I shall again have a day in the dry bed of the river. Then
we return to Los Angeles, put in two or three days there, probably, and
maybe a side trip to Santa Catalina; then to Salt Lake City via the San
Pedro road; then home, not later than November 1st.
If you can possibly arrange it, give me definite information by
November 1st, at Omaha, regarding the matter of publication of proceedings
of our association. I wish to write a personal typed letter to each
delinquent member - a good heart-to-heart talk, and I want to be able to
state what we can do. Half the members look upon the union now as a con-
fidence game, and I belong to that half. We must get out a publication
or give up any idea of collecting any money. It's our move. Also this
dockyment has no place in the files of the union; it is the property of
R.H.W. Before I send out any letters I will write you and submit draft
of what I think is about right; so don't worry.
With best wishes to you and Mrs. Wolcott, and hoping that I may get
down to Lincoln very soon after my return to Omaha, I remain
Yours very truly,
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date
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10/16/1906
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subject
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Shoemaker, Frank H., 1875-1948
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tablecontents/boxes/folders
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Box 6
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source/RG#/MS#
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RG 32-13-01
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isPartOf/Collection
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Frank H. Shoemaker, Papers and Photographs
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creator/photographer
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Frank Shoemaker
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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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media
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