MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1865-1871
Abstract:
T. Martin Trippe was an avid amateur ornithologist from Orange, New Jersey, who spent the majority of his free time as a teenager and young man exploring the woods and observing, shooting, and collecting birds. After graduating from New York University with a degree in engineering in 1869, Trippe worked in various positions for the Iowa Central, Northern Pacific, and Albia, Knoxville, and Des Moines Railroads, continuing to devote his spare time in the interests of ornithology.
The two surviving volumes of Trippe's journals document his ornithological and natural historical observations between 1865 and 1871, including meticulously detailed records of the avifauna (and to lesser degree other fauna) in central New Jersey, central Iowa, and southern Minnesota. They include detailed, and Trippe provided year-end taxonomic and meteorological indexes for 1869, 1870, and 1871.
Call #:
Mss.598.2.T73
Extent:
2 volume(s)
Subjects:
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Auroras. | Birds -- Classification | Birds -- Migration | Bogs -- Minnesota | Brothers -- Death | Chippewa Indians | Christmas | Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882. Variation of animals and plants under domestication | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Deluge | Evolution (Biology) | Fathers -- Death | Fertilizer | Fires -- New Jersey | Fish showers | Iowa -- Description and travel | Lakes -- Minnesota | Long Island (N.Y.) -- Description and travel | Mammals -- New Jersey | Mauch Chunk (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Meteorology -- Observations | Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Natural history -- Iowa | Natural history -- New Jersey | Natural history -- New York (State) -- Long Island | New Jersey -- Decription and travel | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel | Northern Pacific Railroad | Orange (N.J.) -- Description and travel | Ornithology -- Iowa | Ornithology -- Minnesota | Ornithology -- New Jersey | Plagiarism | Rabbits | Railroads | Railroads -- Iowa | Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Description and travel | Saint Paul Academy of Science (St. Paul, Minn.) | Thunderstorms | Trippe, T. Martin, b. ca.1848 | Unemployment