Samuel Barnum Mead and John Torrey correspondence, 1841-1847

by: Mead, Samuel Barnum, 1798-1880

Publication date: 1841

Topics: Botanical specimens, Plants, Mormons, Expulsion of the Mormons, Mead, Samuel Barnum, 1798-1880 -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Flora of North America, Boykin, Samuel, 1786-1848, Carey, John, 1797-1880, Chapman, A. W. (Alvan Wentworth), 1809-1899, Crawe, I. B. (Ithamar Bingham), 1792-1847, Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872, Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842, Engelmann, George, 1809-1884, Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, Holmes, A. F. (Andrew Fernando), 1797-1860, Holton, Isaac F. (Isaac Farwell), Knieskern, Peter D., 1798-1871, Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875, Macrae, W. F. (William Frederick), Oakes, William, 1799-1848, Porter, Thomas C. (Thomas Conrad), 1822-1901, Sartwell, H. P. (Henry Parker), 1792-1867, Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863, Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886, Plants -- Illinois -- Hancock County, Mormons -- Illinois, Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons

Collection: biodiversity; nybgtorrey; NY_Botanical_Garden

Digitizing sponsor: NEH PW-234827-16

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

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Correspondence from Samuel Barnum Mead to John Torrey, dated 1841-1847, discussing the flora of his adopted state, Illinois; the traffic in specimens to and from his home; and the activities of their botanical colleagues, especially their mutual friend Isaac Holton. One letter, dated October 17, 1845, is addressed to Holton, and after touching on the usual botanical subjects and gossip, describes the present unrest in Hancock County in relation to the Mormon community there. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Agrostis virginica, Asclepias cordata, Centunculus minimus, Dalibarda, Erysimum arkansanum, Herpestis rotundifolia, Hymenopappus corymbosus, and Vilfa vaginiflora

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

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Abstract: Correspondence from Samuel Barnum Mead to John Torrey, dated 1841-1847, discussing the flora of his adopted state, Illinois; the traffic in specimens to and from his home; and the activities of their botanical colleagues, especially their mutual friend Isaac Holton. One letter, dated October 17, 1845, is addressed to Holton, and after touching on the usual botanical subjects and gossip, describes the present unrest in Hancock County in relation to the Mormon community there. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Agrostis virginica, Asclepias cordata, Centunculus minimus, Dalibarda, Erysimum arkansanum, Herpestis rotundifolia, Hymenopappus corymbosus, and Vilfa vaginiflora.