Unfortunately, after completing the southern part of his work, covering the coast between Akaroa and Stewart Island / Rakiura, Captain Smith lost his charts, field books, and surveying instruments in the wreck of the cutter " Brothers " inside Akaroa heads on 10 November 1842.
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Payton described the concept of " Home Team " : " I didn't want to write another winning-on-the-field book or about modern-day leadership . . . I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends ."
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The valuation maps and books are kept in local record offices, and the other items are in the National Archives at Kew, London ( field books in series IR58; working maps in series IR121 to IR135 according to region and each region has up to 22 different districts ).
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At the library of the New-York Historical Society, some manuscripts containing a leaf from the church record of Pohick were available to Benson Lossing, an American historian, which he included in his " Field Book of the Revolution "; the leaf contained the following signed oath, required to qualify individuals as vestrymen:
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Bird-watchers are easy to make fun of : the quiet little waspish schoolteacher nearing 50; the obsessively efficient bandanna-headed young man in spectacles with his fanny pack, belly pack, backpack, camera, field books, note pad and binoculars; and the well-heeled middle-age psychiatrist and her husband decked out in pith helmet and khakis, talking of Asia before the war.
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The second group of field books documents some of the formative collections of what was then known as the United States National Museum ( and now houses the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural History ) including those of Edgar Alexander Mearns, a physician and naturalist who participated in historic expeditions These expeditions include the Smithsonian-Theodore Roosevelt African Expedition ( 1909-1910 ) and the Mexican Boundary Survey.
