- Dates
- 1900-09-05 – 1900-09-08
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- biologywildlifeanimalsenvironmentwetlandshistoriography
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The 1900 experiment-station bulletin records early-September natural-history collections on Beaver Island by R. H. Pettit and Charles F. Wheeler. The held index identifies 36 explicit records: 27 molluscs, 8 arachnids, and one Neuroptera insect record.
Evidence and limits
The event is limited to the bulletin’s reported collecting context and dated entries. It does not establish a complete itinerary, each specimen’s precise locality, a comprehensive inventory of the island’s animals, modern taxonomy, or current species occurrence.
See also
Read the document
89 pages, rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- R. H. Pettit, “Insect and Animal Life on the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station,” in *First Report of the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station*, Michigan Agricultural College Experiment Station Bulletin No. 186 (1900).Pettit writes that he and Professor Wheeler visited Beaver Island after their Chatham work and that the mollusc and spider lists include Beaver Island. Dated arachnid records fall on September 5, 6, and 8; this event brackets those documented collecting dates rather than asserting the full duration of the visit. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.local_documents · 1900_msac-bulletin-186-upper-peninsula-experiment-station
- Project-generated index of the explicit Beaver Island records in the bulletin.Separates the 27 molluscs, 8 arachnids, and 1 insect record, preserving historical names, determiner, recorded locality, date, and printed page without modern taxonomic reconciliation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.integrated · 1900_beaver_island_natural_history_index
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Natural-history collections on Beaver Island, 1900”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/natural-history-collections-on-beaver-island-1900/, accessed [date], citing R. H. Pettit, “Insect and Animal Life on the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station,” in *First Report of the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station*, Michigan Agricultural College Experiment Station Bulletin No. 186 (1900). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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