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APPENDIX A. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIANA BOTANY. 



Comparatively little material is at hand to record the early botanical 

 work done -within the limits of the present state of Indiana, though it is 

 doubtless a fact that could the history be correctly told it would present 

 many features of interest. The first recorded item of the history dates back 

 just a century for we know that Michaux came to Louisville, Kentucky, 

 in July 1793, and collected plants in that vicinity, and that later (1795), 

 he ascended the Wabash as far as Vincennes. Thomas Nuttall botanized 

 along the Ohio river to its mouth in 1818. A little later the erratic Rafi- 

 nesque, who was professor of natural science in the University of Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., 1819-1826, collected in states to the north and south of his home 

 and was an occasional visitor in our state. The establishment of the com- 

 munistic society at New Harmony made that place a rendezvous for all 

 the visiting naturalists and when the full history of that enterprise is 

 written, there will be much of interest connected with these visits. Among 

 them Maximilian, Prince of Neuwied, spent a winter there (18;;2-3) and 

 published a list of the trees of the vicinity in 1839. During this period 

 also, Riddell and Short were botanizing along the southern borders 

 of the state, and Lapham of Wisconsin, occasionally collected grasses 

 and other plants in the northern parts. In 183.'> Dr. Clapp of New 

 All)any made considerable collections in that vicinity, a part of which is 

 still preserved in the herbarium of Wabash College. Alphonso Wood 

 once resided at Terre Haute and made considerable collections in the 

 state. 



The commencement of the series of county floras was made by Profes- 

 sor A. H. Young for Jefferson county in 1871, soon followed by one for the 

 lower Wabash Valley by Dr. Schneck of Mt. Carmel, 111. Two additional 

 lists of Jefferson county plants have been made, the second by John M. Coul- 

 ter and the third by Charles R. Barnes. Other similar lists have followed : 

 for Noble county by Van Gorder, Steuben by Bradner, East Central Indi- 

 ana by Phinney, Franklin by Meynke, Dearborn by Collins, and Clark by 

 Eaird and Taylor. In addition to these several have been prepared, but 

 not published: Putnam by INIacDougal, Monroe and Vigo by Blatchley, 

 Henry by INIrs. Mikels, and Knox by Spillman. The unfortunate feature 

 about most of these publications is the fact that nothing exists but the or- 

 iginal list. In. many cases not a single specimen stands behind the list, so 



