Note: A red buckram notebook, with a white label “Methods of [Study?] .. Agassiz?” contains the Old Collection number F7:A9.2 on the front fly leaf. Most of the pages have been cut from the notebook. Perhaps this was done by Cadette Fitch herself when she reused the notebook and paper for sketches. Or, perhaps this was done at some later date. In 1999, 13 images in total were found here. Three are still on the pages that are part of the notebook, Items [1] and [2] on the front two flyleaf pages, and Item [13] on the back flyleaf. The other 10 items are done on scrap paper of various sizes, perhaps taken from the pages cut from the notebook. All of the numbers given here have been assigned by staff, and are written in pencil on the items. The images are generally described below, though no attempt has been made to transcribe the fragments of original written content on the scraps used for these illustrations.

1. Front Flyleaf = [Insects in spider web on plant] Inscribed “Mrs. Geo. C. Fitch, Oct. 10th, 1875.”
2. Second front flyleaf [Dragonfly(?)]
13. Back flyleaf – [Spider]


Loose items
3. “From the Shore of Lake Michigan”
4. [Butterfly]
5. [Insect ; cricket(?)]
6. [Insect ; fly(?)]
7. [Insect]
8. [Insect ; dragonfly]
9. [Crab]
10. [Caterpillar on branch]
11. [Insect in natural scene]
12. [4 insects]