Henry William Ravenel correspondence 1841-1886.

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Henry William Ravenel correspondence 1841-1886.

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234 original letters from leading American and European botanists and agriculturists, mostly concerning the whole flora of his locality near the Santee Canal, fungi, grapes, and other plants. The correspondents usually request or acknowledge specimens. There is a list of correspondents, and it includes Alvan Wentworth Chapman, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and Moses A. Curtis.

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Ravenel, Henry William, 1814-1887

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Born in 1814 in St. John's Parish, South Carolina; Educated in South Carolina private schools and South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina; one of the few distinguished botanists of his time and received international acclaim for his research on non-flowering plants, Cryptogams. His earlier interest was Phaenogams, flowering plants. His collections were given to the Charleston Museum and Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C. From the description of Henry William ...

Ravenel, Mary H.,

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Williams, Elizabeth A.

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