Description
Collection Summary: Journals in which Brewster recorded observations of birds, their habitats and seasonal behavior, while traveling through New England and other areas of the United States.
Collector History Note: William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned American amateur ornithologist, and the first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He amassed a collection of over forty thousand specimens of birds, nests, and eggs, one of the finest private collections of North American birds ever assembled. Brewster curated the bird collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) from 1885 until his death in 1919 at which time his personal collection was gifted to the Museum. Brewster conducted ornithological expeditions to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Colorado, West Virginia and North Carolina mountains, South Carolina and Georgia lowlands, Florida and to Trinidad. He served as Curator of mammals and birds, Boston Society of Natural History, from 1880 to 1887; Curator of mammals and birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, from 1885 to 1900. For additional biographical information see: Bird-Lore (1919) 21, pp. 277-286.
Collector ID: https://bionomia.net/Q2119625
Citations:
deVeer, J. (n.d.). William Brewster - Collection overview. Harvard CURIOSity Digital Collections. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/william-brewster-an-ornithologists-legacy
William Brewster Papers. (n.d.). Biodiversity Heritage Library. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/WilliamBrewsterPapers
Enregistrements de données
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Brewster W, Dearborn J, deVeer J, Lichtenberg M, Richard J (2023). Species Occurrence Data from the Journals of William Brewster, 1886-1894. Version 1.2. Biodiversity Heritage Library. Occurrence dataset. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=william_brewster_fieldnotes&v=1.2
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Mots-clé
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
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Couverture géographique
Brewster recorded a lifetime of observations on wildlife and plants, changing landscapes, and daily weather, making his notes a valuable resource for modern scientists studying ecological change. His observations are primarily based in New England, USA, where he split his time between two homes in Cambridge and Concord, Massachusetts. Brewster would stay in a cabin by the Concord River to study nature and escape city life in Cambridge. He also took notes when travelling: his notebooks document trips to the southern USA, the Caribbean, and Europe.
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [-90, -180], Nord Est [90, 180] |
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Couverture taxonomique
Occurrence data documenting the birds of New England, USA.
| Kingdom | Animalia, Plantae |
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| Class | Aves |
Couverture temporelle
| Date de début / Date de fin | 1886-01-01 / 1894-12-31 |
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Données sur le projet
The Ernst Mayr Library has digitized more than 56,000 pages of the journals and diaries of William Brewster, a prolific ornithologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Brewsters journals are mostly handwritten volumes that are not suitable for Optical Character Recognition software. To extract occurence data from these journals, they need to be transcribed. Volumes are available for transcription on the DigiVol platform.
| Titre | William Brewster Papers |
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| Identifiant | https://volunteer.ala.org.au/institution/index/11740375 |
| Financement | The BHL Field Notes Project, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), has provided open access to field notes held by multiple institutions. Project funding provided the means to digitize primary natural history field research material field notes, including diaries, journals, correspondence, and photographs. The collection contains 2,851 volumes from 1,653 titles, containing 221,394 pages. |
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Données de collection
| Nom de la collection | William Brewster Papers |
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| Identifiant de collection | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/WilliamBrewsterPapers |
| Nom de la collection | William Brewster: An Ornithologist's Legacy |
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| Identifiant de collection | https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/william-brewster-an-ornithologists-legacy |
Citations bibliographiques
- William Brewster Papers. (n.d.). Biodiversity Heritage Library. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/WilliamBrewsterPapers https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/WilliamBrewsterPapers
- deVeer, J. (n.d.). William Brewster - Collection overview. Harvard CURIOSity Digital Collections. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/william-brewster-an-ornithologists-legacy https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/william-brewster-an-ornithologists-legacy
- Dearborn, J., Lichtenberg, M., Richard, J. M., deVeer, J., Trizna, M., & Mika, K. (2023). Unearthing the Past for a Sustainable Future: Extracting and transforming data in the Biodiversity Heritage Library for climate action. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 7. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112436
Métadonnées additionnelles
BHL Data Disclaimer: https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/tools-and-services/data-disclaimer/
| Objet | As the urgency to address the climate crisis intensifies, the availability of accurate and comprehensive biodiversity data has become crucial for informing climate change studies, tracking key environmental indicators, and building global biodiversity monitoring platforms. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) plays a vital role in the core biodiversity infrastructure, housing over 60 million pages of digitized literature about life on Earth. Recognizing the value of over 500 years of data in BHL, a global network of BHL staff is working to establish a scalable data pipeline to provide actionable occurrence data from BHL’s vast and diverse collections of primary source materials such as diaries, journals, correspondence, and photographs. See: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112436 for more information. |
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| Description de la fréquence de mise à jour | Update frequency: Irregular; a dataset update of cataloged page images is planned in the future. |
| Identifiants alternatifs | https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=william_brewster_fieldnotes |