Title
Artemas Bigelow and John Torrey correspondence, 1855
Related Titles
Related/Analytical:
New York Botanical Garden Archives
Series:
John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence
By
Bigelow, Artemas.
Type
Collection
Material
Archival material
Publication info
Notes
Correspondence from Artemas Bigelow to John Torrey, dated 1855, pointing out that a position has opened up for a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and asking Torrey for a letter of recommendation. Bigelow quotes at length from recommendations he has already received from William Kitchell and Benedict Starr, then briefly discusses some plants and geological samples he collected a few years earlier in Alabama, which he and Torrey had examined together, including an item he had previously taken to be a petrified walnut. Bigelow say he has since cut it open and is now convinced it is a member of the genus Carya-- a hickory nut.
In English.
Subjects
Alabama
,
Baldwin County
,
Bigelow, Artemas
,
Carya
,
Correspondence
,
Geology
,
Kitchell, William, 1827-1861
,
Newark Wesleyan Institute (Newark, N.J.)
,
Plants
,
Starr, Benedict, 1822-
,
Torrey, John, 1796-1873
BHL Collections
John Torrey Papers
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
971200982
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