Florida explored the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks
The Bartrams' exploration -- A glorious enterprise begins -- Florida birds, with Peal and Bonaparte -- Florida plants and the Torreya legacy, with Nuttall, Ware, Torrey, Gray, Croom, Chapman and others -- Into the twentieth century, with Pilsbry, Fowler, and others
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Macon, Georgia
Mercer University Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Bartrams' exploration -- A glorious enterprise begins -- Florida birds, with Peal and Bonaparte -- Florida plants and the Torreya legacy, with Nuttall, Ware, Torrey, Gray, Croom, Chapman and others -- Into the twentieth century, with Pilsbry, Fowler, and others The work of William Bartram, a colonial explorer of the American Southeast, inspired a group of pioneering naturalists to establish the nation's first research natural history musem in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1812. The discoveries and collections made by Bartram and those who followed him created databases for research and understanding of Florida's natural heritage, current, and future ecosystems |
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| Beschreibung: | xx, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780881466935 978-0-8814-6693-5 |