Author: Thomas NuttallPublisher:
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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.
Thomas Nuttall Correspondence to John Bachman
Author: Thomas NuttallPublisher:
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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.
James Eights and John Torrey Correspondence, 1838
Author: Albert Hopkins and John Torrey Correspondence, 1838
Author: James Eights and John Torrey Correspondence
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Category : United States Exploring Expedition
Languages : en
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Correspondence from James Eights to John Torrey, dated August 8, 1838, discussing the prospectus of Torrey's new project, "The Flora of North America." Eights gives Torrey advice on how to drum up subscriptions to the work and asks for news of how the U.S. Exploring Expedition is proceeding, as he can obtain nothing reliable in Albany.
John Lewis Russell and John Torrey Correspondence, 1838
Author: Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 131, 1979)
Author: Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN: 9781437955279
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: John Leonard Riddell
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