John Locke and John Torrey correspondence, 1854

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Related/Analytical: New York Botanical Garden Archives

Series: John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence

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Locke, John, 1792-1856

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Publication info

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Correspondence from John Locke to John Torrey, dated 1854, discussing some issues around a specimen that Locke and Torrey identified as Calamagrostis arenaria (now Ammophila arenaria) in 1848. Lock has discovered that Asa Gray, on reading Locke's description of the plant, decided that Torrey would now change his mind as to the novelty of the species and stopped publication of Locke's description. Locke has copied the text of Gray's letter to Dana regarding the specimen-- furnished by Dana by way of explanation-- into his own letter.

In English.

Subjects

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 , Ammophila arenaria , Botanical specimens , Correspondence , Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 , Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871 , Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 , Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880 , Locke, John, 1792-1856 , Torrey, John, 1796-1873

BHL Collections

John Torrey Papers

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 1029556202