Artemas Bigelow and John Torrey correspondence, 1855

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Related/Analytical: New York Botanical Garden Archives

Series: John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence

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Bigelow, Artemas.

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Correspondence from Artemas Bigelow to John Torrey, dated 1855, pointing out that a position has opened up for a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and asking Torrey for a letter of recommendation. Bigelow quotes at length from recommendations he has already received from William Kitchell and Benedict Starr, then briefly discusses some plants and geological samples he collected a few years earlier in Alabama, which he and Torrey had examined together, including an item he had previously taken to be a petrified walnut. Bigelow say he has since cut it open and is now convinced it is a member of the genus Carya-- a hickory nut.

In English.

Subjects

Alabama , Baldwin County , Bigelow, Artemas , Carya , Correspondence , Geology , Kitchell, William, 1827-1861 , Newark Wesleyan Institute (Newark, N.J.) , Plants , Starr, Benedict, 1822- , Torrey, John, 1796-1873

BHL Collections

John Torrey Papers

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 971200982