[Thomas Walter, biographical materials] 1910-
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Walter, Thomas, 1740?-1788
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Thomas Walter (ca. 1740-1788) was an early figure in American botany. Born in Hampshire, England, he immigrated to South Carolina in the 1760s and acquired a plantation on the Santee River in South Carolina, where he prepared his Flora Caroliniana, published in 1788. This publication used the Linnaeus' system of classification. He also had a herbarium which contained all of the specimens described in his book. From the description of Flora Caroliniana, secundum systema vegetabilium p...
