12-05-2011 DESIGN Beautiful Scientific Field Notes Show Why Hand Drawing Is Still Necessary Working scientists have all manner of high-tech gizmos to gather field data.

Among his many qualities, the pioneering wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold was a meticulous taker of field notes.

The field book is the transcript of original field notes, part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. During the summers of 1924 and 1925, Schmitt was at the Carnegie ...