Author: Thomas Russell Ingalls
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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.
Thomas Russell Ingalls and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Thomas Russell Ingalls
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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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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.
Thomas Russell Ingalls and John Torrey Correspondence, 1834
Thomas Nuttall and John Torrey Correspondence, 1820-1838
John Lewis Russell and John Torrey Correspondence, 1838
Thomas G. Lea and John Torrey Correspondence, 1839
Thomas Antisell and John Torrey Correspondence, 1853-1861
Thomas Dunlap and John Torrey Correspondence, 1841
Thomas Antisell and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Thomas Antisell
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Category : Agaves
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Thomas Antisell to John Torrey, dated from 1853-1861. Earlier letters make frequent mention of the progress being made on volume 7 of the Pacific Railroad survey to which he and Torrey both contributed, as well as chemical experiments and the activities of other chemists and geologists of mutual acquaintance such as A.A. Hayes, G.C. Schaeffer, and C.F. Jackson. Antisell frequently voices his dissatisfaction with his government posts at the War Department and the Patent Office, and his attempts to find other employment and supplemental work lecturing at various medical colleges. Several letters are undated.
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Category : Agaves
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Thomas Antisell to John Torrey, dated from 1853-1861. Earlier letters make frequent mention of the progress being made on volume 7 of the Pacific Railroad survey to which he and Torrey both contributed, as well as chemical experiments and the activities of other chemists and geologists of mutual acquaintance such as A.A. Hayes, G.C. Schaeffer, and C.F. Jackson. Antisell frequently voices his dissatisfaction with his government posts at the War Department and the Patent Office, and his attempts to find other employment and supplemental work lecturing at various medical colleges. Several letters are undated.
John Lewis Russell and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: John Lewis Russell
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from John Lewis Russell to John Torrey, dated 1838, discussing an unidentified plant specimen, and offering congratulations to Torrey on the commencement of his North American flora and to Asa Gray on his appointment as professor at Harvard. He also mentions his newfound passion for fossil plants, spurred by the sight of Jacob Bailey's "fossil animalcules" (diatoms).
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from John Lewis Russell to John Torrey, dated 1838, discussing an unidentified plant specimen, and offering congratulations to Torrey on the commencement of his North American flora and to Asa Gray on his appointment as professor at Harvard. He also mentions his newfound passion for fossil plants, spurred by the sight of Jacob Bailey's "fossil animalcules" (diatoms).
Thomas Dunlap and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Thomas Dunlap (Nurseryman)
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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."
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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."