Botanical notebooks of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1841-1894 (inclusive).

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Botanical notebooks of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1841-1894 (inclusive).

Consists of four boanical notebooks compiled by Higginson between 1841 and 1845 describing and listing plants collected during his botanical field trips. Also, includes a letter, 1894 from Loren Low Dame.

4 notebooks.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7431579

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903

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