50°49'39"N 0°8'45"W Panthalassa

PUB-0001 Object
Location: Burgan Oil Field, Kuwait
Map reference: 47.973 -29.041

Description:

Botanical notebook belonging to Violet Dickson recording plant life in the Burgan oil field, 1939.


Materials:

Paper; leather


Field notes:

A notebook belonging to Violet Dickson recording the botany of the Burgon oil field, it's small and red, functional, contains handwritten notes and drawings. It contains the first record of an Howoodia found only in Burgon, it's pressed between two pages. Type: object, Materials: paper, leather, produced in London, date 1939, location: Kuwait city, Burgon oil field. Certainty; probable