Robert Kaye Greville and John Torrey correspondence, 1820-1849 Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866 creator text book
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ENG Correspondence from Robert Kaye Greville to John Torrey, dated 1820-1849. Greville's first letter, dated November 9, 1820, marks the beginning of his correspondence with Torrey; still a medical student, he thanks Torrey for a gift of plant specimens and assures him he will be happy to correspond with him. While Greville does discuss issues of plant identification, his real obsession is botanical literature. His letters are packed with news of the latest publications, and the details of major illustrated works. "You would be surprized [sic] if you knew the disadvantages I labor under in Edinburgh," he writes in 1824. "There is no public library that cares a sixpence for botany. I am obligated to buy all the works I use; and often am as late in seeing things probably as you are." A few years later, Greville is able to discuss his own works, and those he collaborates on, particularly with William Jackson Hooker. In his last letter, dated 1849 and written after a long period of silence between the correspondents, Greville tells Torrey he has gotten rid of his "phaenogamous" plant specimens and is concentrating on the cryptogamia, when he isn't collecting freshwater and land mollusks and working as an artist. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Canna viridiflora and Erica mediterranea. In English. Agardh, C. A. (Carl Adolf), 1785-1859 Agrimonia eupatoria Algae Algae britannicae Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New Yor Aspidium Barratt, Joseph, 1796-1882 Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786 Bentham, George, 1800-1884 Boott, Francis, 1792-1863 Botanical arrangement of British plants Botanical literature Botanical specimens Botany of Captain Beechey's voyage Brewster, David, 1781-1868 Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 Bryologia Germanica Burchell, William J. (William John), 1781-1863 Calluna vulgaris Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841 Carex Correspondence Cryptogamia Cyperaceae De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851 Digitalium monographia Don, David, 1799-1841 Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830 Erica herbacea Essai sur les cryptogames des écorces exotiques o Exotic flora Fauna boreali-Americana Fée, Antoine Laurent Apollinaire, 1789-1874 Ficus Filices Flora Edinensis Flora Londinensis Flora Scotica Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866 Hedwig, Johannes, 1730-1799 Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 Hornschuch, Christian Friedrich, 1793-1850 Horsfield, Thomas, 1773-1859 Icones filicum Illustrations of British ornithology Jameson, William, 1796-1873 Kayea Lea, Thomas G. (Thomas Gibson), 1785-1844 Lindley, John, 1799-1865 Macromitrium Mohs, Carl Friedrich Christian, 1773-1839 Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae Musci Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. (Christian Gottfried), 17 Newcomb, Wesley, 1808-1892 Orthotrichum Pelargonium Persoon, C. H. (Christiaan Hendrik), 1755-1837 Potamogeton Primula scotica Prunella vulgaris Quercus Rafinesque, C. S. (constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 Rhododendron arboreum Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 Roscoe, William, 1753-1831 Rubus Schlotheimia Schultes, Joseph August, 1773-1831 Schwaegrichen, F. (Friedrich), 1775-1853 Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834 Scottish cryptogamic flora Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828 Species muscorum frondosorum Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833 Stewart, John, -1820 Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848 Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Systema vegitabilium Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Tortula Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 Wernerian Natural History Society Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812 Withering, William, 1741-1799 New York Botanical Garden Archives John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/139311 1003646024 VXG