Records of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (inclusive).
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United States exploring expedition (1838-1842)
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The United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes left U.S.A. Aug. 1838, returning July 1842. The ships in the expedition were the Flying Fish, Oregon, Peacock, Porpoise, Relief, Seagull and Vincennes. The expedition visited the Antarctic, Sydney Harbour, Bay of Islands, N.Z., various islands in the Pacific and areas on the coast of South America and U.S.A. From the description of Records [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845806 ...
Sprague, Isaac, 1811-1895
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Hutton, W.R.
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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
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Botanist, ardent supporter of Charles Darwin, first professor appointed to the faculty of the University of Michigan, and Professor of Botany at Harvard University. From the description of Asa Gray collection, 1871-1885. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68802268 Asa Gray is an American botanist. He was made Professor of Natural History at Harvard University in 1842 and held that position until 1873. He was the author of several works including Manual of the bota...
Agate, Alfred T., 1812-1846
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Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
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Wilkes was a career U.S. naval officer who, as captain of the San Jacinto, provoked the Trent Affair in 1861. From the description of Letter, November 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 61770003 Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, was born on April 3, 1798 in New York, NY. He surveyed Narragansett Bay in 1832-1833, which led to his appointment to a depot of charts and instruments, which later became the Naval Observatory. In 18...
Brackenridge, William D. (William Dunlop), 1810-1893
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William Dunlop Brackenridge (1810-1893) was a gardener and nurseryman from Scotland who came to the United States in 1837. When Asa Gray resigned his position as Botanist for the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, William Rich, the Assistant Botanist, took his place and Brackenridge was appointed to fill Rich's place. When the expedition returned in 1842, Brackenridge was entrusted with the care of the living plants and also with the report on ferns collected by the expedition. In ...
Drayton, Joseph
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Boott, Francis, 1792-1863
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Francis Boott received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1810. After a three-year stay in England (1811-1814), Boott returned to Boston and became interested in collecting New England plants. He was part of a group that made botanical explorations of New England mountains in 1816. Boott left again for England in 1820 and took up the study of medicine, first in London and then in Edinburgh, where he received an M.D. in 1824. He practiced medicine in London for a number of years and also lecture...