Samuel Washington Woodhouse Papers

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Contained In: Samuel Washington Woodhouse Papers
Series: ANSP-Coll-0387

By

Woodhouse, Samuel Washington

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1849-1889

Notes

Naturalist and surgeon, he accompanied the U. S. topographical engineers, under Sitgreaves and Woodruff, on the Boundary Survey of the Creek and Cherokee Indian Nations, 1849-50, and again under Sitgreaves, on the Zuni River Expedition in 1851-2. The next year, he was a member of the private enterprise Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Company's Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1859-60 while surgeon on Cope's Line of Packets running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, he made a trip through Europe. For all these, he kept diaries, including notes on meteorology, topography and natural history, as well as day to day living conditions, foods eaten and Indians encountered. Register was kept of the illnesses treated of both Expedition personnel and Indians, including a detailed account of a rattlesnake bite he himself suffered. Elected a member of the Academy in 1845, he showed special interest in ornithology but collected all kinds of natural history objects while on his travels. These were all deposited in the Academy's museum.

Subjects

British Museum , Cherokee , Expedition , Field notes , Jardin de Plantes , Medicine , military , Muscogee (Creek) , Ornithology , topography , Travel , westward expansion

Language

English