Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Botany Languages : en Pages : 4
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Nuttall sends a package to his fellow botanist John Torrey, making observations upon different species and telling Torrey he returns his manuscript as well, instructing him next time to send only one species of each American flower as Nuttall's herbarium is extensive enough to provide the flowers at hand for ready reference. Nuttall asks after "friend Gray" and discusses other mutual acquaintances in the field. Asa Gray was a botanist who collaborated with Torrey on A Flora of North America (1838-1843) during the period in which Torrey was appointed State Botanist of New York. Like Gray and Torrey, Nuttall was a naturalist and a botanist who specialized in North American plants; an Englishman who relocated to America, Nuttall lived in Philadelphia for a time, taught at Harvard, and accompanied an expedition to the Columbia River in Hawaii to collect plants.
Author: Joseph LeConte Publisher: ISBN: Category : Geologists Languages : en Pages : 412
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Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.
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