Letters to Thomas Morong, 1874-1888

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Letters to Thomas Morong, 1874-1888

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McBryde, John McLaren

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Henderson, L. F. (Louis Fourniquet), 1853-1942

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Louis F. Henderson was born near Boston in 1853. He studied languages and botany at Cornell University and moved west after graduation, living in California and then in Oregon. He was a professor of botany at the University of Idaho and headed the Department of Botany at the University of Oregon. Henderson traveled extensively, collecting botanical specimens. He remained active in the field of botany into his 80s and died in 1942 at the age of 88. From the description of Louis F. Hen...

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Howell, Thomas Jefferson, 1860-1945

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Thomas Jefferson Howell was born 7 March 1860 in Franklin, Iowa, to James and Rosannah Monk. As a child, his family moved to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City on 29 August 1863. On 7 April 1881 in Salt Lake City, he married Mary Jane Heaton, with whom he had 12 children. He served in many church callings, including the clerk and president of the Nebraska Conference and as a Seventy. He died 5 October 1945 in Portage, Utah. From the description of Thomas Jefferson Howell mission journa...

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Commons, Albert

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Vasey, George, 1822-1893

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Foerste, August Frederick

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James Watson Robbins

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Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890

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Botanist and physician. Parry was born in Admington, Gloucestershire, England on August 28, 1823. When he was nine years old, his family moved from England to Washington County, New York. Parry earned an A.B. degree from Union College in 1842, then attended Columbia College as a graduate student, falling under the influence there of the botanist John Torrey. Earning an M.D. degree from Columbia in 1846, Parry settled in Davenport, Iowa, the same year and established a medical practice. Botanical...

Clinton, George W. (George William), 1807-1885

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Buffalo mayor, superior court judge, and regent of the State University of New York. From the description of Sketch of the life of Edward S. Warren, 1864. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 184739297 Born in Brooklyn 13 Apr. 1807. Son of DeWitt Clinton; grandnephew of George Clinton. Graduated from Hamiton College in 1825; moved to Buffalo in 1836. Served as mayor of Buffalo, 1842-1843. From the description of George W. Clinton letters, invitation, and...

Bourne, A. E.

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Hyams, Mordecai Elijah

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Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1834-1895

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Daniel Cady Eaton: botanist; studied botany at Yale University, 1853-1857, and at Harvard with Asa Gray; in 1864 became professor of botany at Yale until his death in 1895; author of several books. From the description of Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895) papers, 1854-1897 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702167519 Daniel Cady Eaton: botanist; studied botany at Yale University, 1853-1857, and at Harvard with Asa Gray; in 1864 became professor of botany at...

Morong, John C.

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Paine, John A. (John Alsop), 1840-1912

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Mellichamp, Joseph Hinson

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Perry, S. M. H., Mrs.

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Cleveland, Daniel

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Rumford, Sarah Thompson, Countess, 1774-1852

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Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867

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Kennedy, George G. (George Golding), 1841-1918

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Higginson, Storrow

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Curran, Mary Katherine (née Layne)

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Gattinger, Augustin

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Campbell, E. V.

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Robbins, James Watson

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Owen, Maria L. (Maria Louisa), 1825-1913

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Britton, Nathaniel Lord

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Collins, Frank S. (Frank Shipley), 1848-1920

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Frank Shipley Collins was a botanist and was an authority on American algae. From the description of Papers, 1872-1919. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440303 The botanist Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) was an authority on American algae. He spent his life in Massachusetts where he worked for the Malden Rubber Shoe Company for over three decades. Despite the fact that Collins’ formal education never extended beyond high school...

Plummer, Sara Allen (later Lemmon)

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Goodale, George L. (George Lincoln), 1839-1923

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George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923) earned an AB at Amherst College in 1860 and MD degrees from both Bowdoin and Harvard in 1863; he taught science in various fields at Bowdoin, 1868-1878. He came to Harvard in 1878 as a professor of Botany and became the first Director of the Botanical Museum in 1879. He was appointed Fisher Professor of Natural History in 1888 and retired in 1909, becoming Honorary Curator of the Botanical Museum until his death in 1923. From the description of Pape...

Dudley, William Russel, 1849-1911

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Professor of botany, Stanford University; graduate (B.S., M.S.) of Cornell University; instrumental in establishing the first preserve of redwood trees in California and creating the Dudley Herbarium which was moved from Stanford to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in 1976; originally of Guilford, Conn. From the description of Papers, 1815-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70952206 William Russel Dudley earned his bachelor's (1874) and master's (1876) d...

Fretz, Clayton Detweiler

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Cratty, Robert Irvin

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W. E. Safford

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Fryer, Alfred

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Gray, Asa

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Linnaean Botanical Exchange Club

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Myers, Frances J.

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Cusick, William C. (William Conklin), 1842-1922

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Botanical collector, Union County, Oregon. From the description of Papers, 1906-1924. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852930 Botanist. From the description of W.W. Eggleston collection of William C. Cusick, 1862-1922. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 18061386 William C. Cusick was born in Illinois in 1842 and emigrated to Oregon while a youth. He had a modest "collegiate" education and worked as a te...

Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

Chickering, John W. (John White), 1808-1888

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Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus

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Chapman, A. W. (Alvan Wentworth), 1809-1899

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Groves, James

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Bingham, Caroline P. (née Lord)

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Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886

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Edward Tuckerman was a botanist who specialized in lichen of North America. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_622_pid_EACP619 Tuckerman, eldest son of Edward Tuckerman, a Boston merchant, and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, was born in Boston in 1817. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Union College in 1837 and 1844 respectively and his L.L.B. and A.B. from Harvard University in 1839 and 1847 respectively. Tuckerman married Sarah Eliza S...

Williams, Robert Statham

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Porter, Thomas Conrad

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Hoar, Edward S. (Edward Sherman), 1823-1893

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Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896

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American astronomer. Graduated Harvard, 1844; University of Göttingen (Germany), 1848. He returned to the United States with the hope of establishing an era for astronomy. In 1849 he founded and became the first editor of the "Astronomical Journal." In 1855, he became director of the Dudley Observatory. A public controversy arose when he disagreed with the Scientific Council and Trustees of the Observatory as to management of the facility. He was terminated as director in 1859. From ...

Edwards, William

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Eccles, Robert Gibson

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Deane, Walter

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Langlois, Auguste Barthélemy

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Reichenbach, H.G. (Heinrich Gustav), 1824-1889

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Fletcher, James

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Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1854-1923

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Seymour, Arthur Bliss, 1859-1933

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Arthur Bliss Seymour (1859-1933) was a mycologist on the staff of the Harvard University Herbarium from 1886 until his death in 1933. From the description of Arthur Bliss Seymour papers, 1881-1932. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155462465 From the description of Arthur Bliss Seymour papers 1881-1932. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 47066093 Seymour taught biology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of A...

Canby, William Marriott

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Crozier, Arthur Alger

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Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915

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Professor of Botany at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Letters, 1891-1895, to Samuel Bonsall Parish. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122289356 Episcopal cleryman, convert to Catholicism, and botanist who taught at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Catholic University of America (1885-1904) and served as an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904-1909); LL.D., University of Notre Dame (1895). From the d...

Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913

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Sociologist. From the description of Lester Frank Ward papers, 1883-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980247 Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) served as a geologist and paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1882 to 1905. In addition to his USGS career, Ward served as Honorary Curator of the Department of Fossil Plants in the United States National Museum (USNM) during the same span of years. In 1905, Ward accepted a faculty appointment at Brown...

Wilkinson, Edw. (Edward), active 1600-1603

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Foster, A J

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Perkins, George H. (George Henry), 1844-1933

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Olney, Stephen T. (Stephen Thayer), 1812-1878

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Olney was educated in Providence, R.I. and founded the Wauskuck Co., a woolens firm, with Jesse Metcalf. After attaining business success, Olney pursued botanical interests. He published a section on Carex in Sereno Watson's Botany (1871) and a list of Rhode Island algae (1871); and established a private herbarium and botanical library. From the description of Field notebooks of Stephen Thayer Olney, 1841-1870 (inclusive), 1841-1848 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177498790 ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Underwood, Lucien Marcus, 1853-1907

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Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907) was a botanist specializing in pteridophyta. He succeeded Nathaniel Lord Britton as Professor of Botany of Columbia University and participated in New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) field expeditions to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Rocky Mountains. He was elected to the NYBG Board of Scientific Directors and was named Chairman in 1901. He was born in New Woodstock, N.Y. attended Cazenovia Seminary, Syracuse University and Harvard University. Underwood was ...

Bennett, James Lawrence

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Hayarade (?), L. H.

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Mrs. Richard Fitch Bingham

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Horsford, Frederick Hinsdale

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Kairamo, Alfred Oswald, 1858-1938

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Allen, Oscar Dana

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903

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Sanford, James A.

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Harvey, Francis LeRoy

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Knieskern, Peter D

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Miller, Elihu Sanford

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Fowler, James

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Epithet: merchant, at Amsterdam British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00032a Epithet: of Fortrose British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00032b ...

Dean, Andrew

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Potts, Edward

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Hotchkiss, Mary T.

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James, George O.

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TULLY, WILLIAM

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Eggert, Heinrich Karl Daniel

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Sandberg, John H.

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Hill, Ellsworth Jerome

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Coville, Frederick V. (Frederick Vernon), 1867-1937

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Frederick V. Coville (1867-1937), a botanist for the United States Department of Agriculture, was considered an authority on North American rushes, wild currents, and blueberries. His "Botany of the Death Valley Expedition" was a classic study. He participated in the 1899 Harriman expedition to Alaska. Coville was the first curator of the National Herbarium and was chairman of the research committee of the National Geographic Society from 1920 to 1937. From the description of Papers,...

Shriver, Howard

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Bross, Mason

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Philippi, Frederico (Friedrich Heinrich Eunom)

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Thorburn, J.

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Arthur, Joseph Charles, 1850-1942

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Joseph Charles Arthur received a B.S. (1872) in botany and was a member of the first graduating class of 1872 at the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University). He also earned the first M.S. in Botany, the first one conferred. He received his Sc. D (1886) in Plant Pathology from Cornell University. Arthur studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, before becoming an Instructor (1879-1881) at the University of Wisconsin; Instructor (1882) at the University of Minnesota; an...

Durand, Elias (Élie Magloire)

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Boyce, Thos E.

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Oliver, Daniel, 1753-1840

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Robinson, John

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Epithet: carrier British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x0001ab John Robinson served as Secretary for Royal Society of Edinburgh. He wrote to John Brown regarding the Antarctic explorer James Weddell whom they both knew. From the guide to the John Robinson collection, 1839, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manusc...

Lemmon, John Gill

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Sanio, Carl Gustav

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Schultze, Edwin A.

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Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey), 1838-1911

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Cyrus G. Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent his career cataloging the plants of North America, especially in Mexico. He was born on May 6, 1838 in East Charlotte, Vermont. He enrolled at the University of Vermont but had to leave after a semester when his older brother died, so he could run the farm. He did fight in the Civil War, but was discharged after a short time. He went back to the farm and continued his work as a plant breeder where experimented with crops such as cor...

Steele, Maria Olivia

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Bebb, Michael Schuck

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Keck, Karl

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Macoun, James Melville

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Schneck, Jacob

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Brainerd, Ezra, 1844-1924

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President of Middlebury College. From the description of The early settlements of Middlebury, Vermont, from the original surveys and from recent measurements, 1886. (Sheldon Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 664776939 ...

Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946

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Art historian, writer and lithographer; Philadelphia, PA. From the description of Joseph Jackson papers, 1913-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454161 Epithet: formerly fag to Sir R Peel at Harrow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000135 Epithet: Chaplain of Kesington Palace British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1...

Cassino, Samuel Edson, 1856-1937

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Calkins, William Wirt, 1842-

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Lehmann, Friedrich Carl 1896-

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Wright, Samuel Hart, 1825-

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Fries, Theodor Magnus, 1832-1913

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Orcutt, Charles Russell, 1864-1929

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Charles Russell Orcutt (1864-1929) was a collector of natural history specimens and publisher of scientific journals. Orcutt was born in 1864 in Hartland, Vermont. His father was a horticulturalist and often read professional plant journals and sometimes contributed articles for publication. In 1879, Charles Orcutt moved to San Diego and at the age of 18 he went on his first trip to the Baja region of California. In the following years he accompanied his father and other local naturalists on exp...

Ball, John (John F.)

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Morong, John T. (Juan T.)

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Pohlman, Julius

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Cox, Charles F. (Charles Finney), 1846-1912

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Charles Finney Cox (1846-1912) was one of the incorporators of the New York Botanical Garden as named in its 1891 charter granted by the New York State Legislature. An active advocate for the establishment of the Garden, he was appointed a member of the Board of Managers and served as Treasurer from 1899 until his death in 1912. From the description of Charles Finney Cox papers 1772-1910. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155462829 From the descripti...

Startwell, Henry Parker

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Alexander, John Locke

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de Guichainville, Le Métayer

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Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936

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John Uri Lloyd was a pioneer in pharmacy, colloidal chemistry, pharmacognosy, and the American materia medica, as well as a novelist and local historian. His most important contributions were in the fields of botanical medicines, and standardization of drug manufacturing. He led the way in developing ethical drugs, and quality in the drug industry. His research resulted in the addition of a large number of botanical drugs. He was a professor of chemistry in the Eclectic ...