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Thomas Nuttall and John Torrey Correspondence, 1820-1838
Author: Thomas NuttallThomas Nuttall and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Thomas NuttallPublisher:
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Thomas Nuttall to John Torrey, dated 1820-1838, discussing a large number of plant species, punctuated with the occasional personal observation, as in 1836 when he observes that the Philadelphia winter seems "arctic" after two winters in the Sandwich Islands. One document is a page from an undated manuscript copy of Nuttall's "Genera of North American Plants." Obsolete plant names mentioned include Aira, Drepanolobus, Lauchneria, Pitcheria, Pronalea, and Wrayia.
Joseph Barratt and John Torrey Correspondence
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Joseph Barratt to John Torrey, dated 1827-1846. Barratt's long letters-- frequently written over several days, often with page-length postscripts-- touch on a multitude of topics. His and Torrey's botanical activities are the most frequent focus, but Barratt also discusses chemistry, mineralogy, and theological issues. He discourses on the books he is reading or wishes to read; his health; his work on his herbarium and on "the Willows"; and the latest gossip about their mutual acquaintances (Thomas Nuttall, for example "is enveloped completely in feathers and neglects Botany now"). He offers frequent warm wishes toward Torrey's wife and their daughters, "the Misses Torrey." In his capacity as local physician he calls on Torrey to help him acquire a quantity of smallpox vaccine during a local outbreak; he reciprocates by visiting local paper mills to price out and place an order for herbarium paper for Torrey's Lyceum. Barratt also describes his numerous plant finds in detail, many from Selden's Cove near his home in Middletown, Connecticut. Obsolete and unresolved plant names mentioned include Arum dracontium, Carex ampullacea, Cimicifuga, Draba hispidula, Frasera verticellata, Geum strictum, Hydroglossum, Liatris squamosa, Monotropa languinosa, Monotropa procera, Nelumbium, Pinus canadensis, Poa aquatica, Populus angulata, Quercus tinctoria, Salix fragilis, Salix muehlenbergiana, Salix tristis, Tussilago palmata, Vilfa longifolia, Villarsia lacunosa, and Viola clandestina.
Thomas Dunlap and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Thomas Dunlap (Nurseryman)Publisher:
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Category : Plants
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Thomas Dunlap to John Torrey, dated August 13, 1841. Dunlap thanks Torrey for a book he recently sent him, an offers to show him where the Taxus canadensis may be found growing on Manhattan Island. He also offers to take a train trip with Torrey to Ramapo, New Jersey, where "I am inclined to think you would find sufficient to remumerate you for your trouble."
Thomas Nuttall Correspondence to John Bachman
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
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Correspondence from English botanist and zoologist Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) to American naturalist Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874), dated January 17, 1837, his failure to procure an intact specimen of Lepus (Lagomys) princeps (now called Ochotona princeps, or American pika) and expeditions to the Colorado, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers, which yielded no findings of animal species "larger than a mole," he wrote.
Randolph B. Marcy and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Randolph Barnes MarcyPublisher:
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Randolph B. Marcy to John Torrey, dated October 6, 1852, discussing the botanical specimens gathered on his recent Red River expedition, and proposing that Torrey is the botanist to analyze them.
Thomas Russell Ingalls and John Torrey Correspondence
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Category : Aquatic plants
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Thomas Russell Ingalls to John Torrey, dated 1834. Ingalls tells Torrey in his first letter, "Cut off as I am from society of kindred pursuits a letter from a Botanist is to me like a fountain of water in a parched land." He goes on to say that he has just been appointed professor of chemistry at the local medical college and asks Torrey to help him obtain the necessary equipment for his classes in New York, as such equipment is not available in New Orleans. In turn he furnishes Torrey with plant, mineral, and shell specimens, and described collecting trips to wetlands in Louisiana. Ingalls' third letter, postmarked November 13, includes a two-page wish list of chemical apparatus. His fourth letter includes another, shorter wish-list of books and supplies. Obsolete and unresolved plant and animal names cited include Andropogon nutans, Cyprea fuscodentata, Nelumbium codophyllum, and Uniola pubescens.
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