Timothy Langdon Andrews and John Torrey correspondence, 1850-1855

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Related/Analytical: New York Botanical Garden Archives

Series: John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence

By

Andrews, Timothy Langdon, 1819-1908

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Collection

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Archival material

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Correspondence from Timothy Langdon Andrews to John Torrey, dated 1850-1855, primarily discussing a few species of California plants and citing the work of prominent botanists regarding those species. Andrews also asks Torrey to purchase some equipment for him in New York in preparation for Andrews' upcoming voyage to "the isthmus" (i.e., Panama). Obsolete plant names mentioned: Wellingtonia gigantea, Taxodium senpervivens, Marah muricata (Andrews writes "muricatus"), and Megarrhiza.

In English.

Subjects

Andrews, Timothy Langdon, 1819-1908 , Botanical specimens , California , Classification , Correspondence , Echinocystis , Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 , Kellogg, A. (Albert), 1813-1887 , Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890 , Plantæ frémontianæ , Plants , Sequoia sempervirens , Sequoiadendron giganteum , Torrey, John, 1796-1873 , Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863

BHL Collections

John Torrey Papers

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PP

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 968214003