A.J. Downing and John Torrey correspondence, 1833-1847
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson),
1815-1852
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Correspondence from A.J. Downing to John Torrey, dated 1833-1847. In his first letter, dated 1833, Downing expresses his delight at "the commencement of a correspondence" with Torrey, and a lively exchange of specimens, seeds, publications, and ideas-- debates on taxonomy and methods of propagation-- follows. Downing sends Torrey plants from his Newburgh nursery; Torrey reciprocates with roots, seeds, and whole plants from as far away as North Carolina and Florida. Downing also regularly includes plants and flowers meant for Torrey's wife. By 1842, with Torrey in Princeton and Gray in Cambridge, Downing laments that all his "botanical acquaintances" have left New York City-- "What a scientific desert!" he says. A few more letters appear in 1847-- though Downing maintains that "Princeton is the Southern Antarctic to me," he writes again to ask Torrey to analyze a soil sample, and catch up on their respective work and publications. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Euphorbia poinsettii, Magnolia cordata, Nelumbium luteum, and Sarracenia heterophylla.
In English.
Bartonia
Belknap, William G. (William Goldsmith), 1794-1851
Bentham, George, 1800-1884
Botanical specimens
Buel, Jesse, 1778-1839
Corema conradii
Correspondence
Cottage residences
Croom, Hardy Bryan, 1797-1837
Croomia pauciflora
Cycas
De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851
Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853
Dionaea
Douglas, David, 1799-1834
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
Eschscholzia californica
Euphorbia
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Gilia tricolor
Graham, Robert, 1786-1845
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
Gymnocladus
Horticultural Society of London
Hosack, David, 1769-1835
Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), 1810-1887
Introduction to the natural system of botany
Knevels, John W., -1855
Ladies' botany
Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860
Limnanthes douglasii
Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)
Magnolia acuminata
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Mather, W. W. (William Williams), 1804-1859
McNab, William, 1780-1848
Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. (Christian Gottfried), 17
Nelumbo lutea
North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae
Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Orchidaceae
Psoralea esculenta
Pyrus
Rafinesque, C. S. (constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Sarracenia
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
Thorburn, George C
Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Torreya
Trillium
Ulmus americana
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
Viscum
Wallich, N. (Nathaniel), 1786-1854
Wardian cases
New York Botanical Garden Archives
John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence
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