Papers of Jacob Bigelow, 1795-1879 (inclusive).

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Papers of Jacob Bigelow, 1795-1879 (inclusive).

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Contains correspondence with Bigelow's colleagues concerning botanical specimens; publication of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, 1820-1831; the Rumford professorship at Harvard; and medical matters. Personal correspondence pertains to family matters and social events. Other material includes notes and lists relating to plants and flowers, patients, medicines, finances, and publications; drafts of lectures and revisions to the Pharmacopoeia; accounts and bills; and clippings.

6 boxes.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...

Bigelow family.

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Harvard Medical School.

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