Title
Samuel Botsford Buckley and John Torrey correspondence, 1838-1883
Related Titles
Related/Analytical:
New York Botanical Garden Archives
Series:
John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence
By
Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884
Type
Collection
Material
Archival material
Publication info
Notes
Correspondence from Samuel Botsford Buckley to John Torrey, dated 1838-1883. Buckley's letters, full of colorful detail and news of mutual aquaintances as well as questions of botanical identification, come from numerous locations around the United States: Alabama, New York, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas, where Buckley ultimately settled. In Alabama Buckley collects plants-- he sends boxes to Torrey and hopes to sell others in Europe-- and digs for fossils, eventually unearthing the skeleton of a Basilosaurus (he calls it Zygodon) which proves to be more of a burden than a treasure. After over a year of trying to find a buyer for the skeleton he declares to Torrey, "I am heartily tired of the Zygodon." A miserable expedition to Florida to collect plants and other natural specimens is described in detail; after returning home and suffering bouts of recurring fever Buckley decides to give up his medical aspirations altogether as his financial situation has rendered his acquiring a trade unnecessary. Also included are four letters from Buckley to Benjamin Braman and Nathaniel Lord Britton of the Torrey Botanical Club, written in 1883 after Torrey's death, concerning a shipment of plants Buckley sent from Texas for the club's herbarium. Obsolete and unresolved plant and animal names include Hopea tinctoria, Saponaria vaccaria, and Zygodon (Owens).
In English.
Subjects
Barratt, Joseph, 1796-1882
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Basilosaurus
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Botanical specimens
,
Boykinia
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Braman, Benjamin
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Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934
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Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884
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Carey, John, 1797-1880
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Correspondence
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Croomia
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De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851
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Desmodium
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Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
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Fisk, Wilbur, 1792-1839
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Fossils
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Goldie, James, 1824-1912
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Gramineae
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Justicia
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Knieskern, Peter D., 1798-1871
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Melanthera
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Poa
,
Quercus
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Sartwell, H. P. (Henry Parker), 1792-1867
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Saxifraga
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Shortia
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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
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Symplocos tinctoria
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Torrey, John, 1796-1873
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Vaccaria hispanica
BHL Collections
John Torrey Papers
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
981124207
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