Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Diaries, 8 x 10.25 x 1.5 in.)
Container:
Item M200
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1911 - 1912
Scope and Contents note:
A manuscript diary kept by Stigand during a shooting expedition in East Africa. Covers the period 13 November 1911 when he left Victoria Station in London to 1 November 1912 when the diary abruptly ceases at Tombe Musa. A great deal of elephant hunting and his register at the front shows kills of hartebest, warthog, waterbuck, etc. During this time, as five pages of notes at the rear attest, he was writing "The Land of Zinj," sending lepidoptera to Roland Ward. Loosely inserted are ten Sudanese postal service receipts dispatching the various chapters, specimens, etc.
General note:
M200 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
