Box 40-41

Scope and Contents Field journals are a daily recording of investigations and observations. As a young man in his late teens, Bassett Maguire kept field journals during his travels to Europe during the summers of 1921-1923 when he worked as a sailor in the merchant marine. In 1925, an uncle provided a gift that allowed him to join a University of Pittsburgh field program in Kartabo, British Guiana where he also kept a detailed record of his observations. The Kartabo paper that Maguire prepared for the class is...