Edmund Berkley Edmund Berkeley Dorothy Smith Berkeley
"A long needed biography of the pioneering American naturalist whose explorations and collecting were so influential in the founding of American natural history." --Nina J. Root, American Museum of Natural History
"Will stand the test of time as the biography of a significant member of the Anglo-American natural history circle."--Journal of American History
"Historians of American culture and science will read this book with profit and gratitude to it authors. . . . and its text and generous illustrations will appeal to anyone who has ever planted and kept a garden or...
"A long needed biography of the pioneering American naturalist whose explorations and collecting were so influential in the founding of American na...
"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography." Choice
"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. Yet] his strongest tie was with...
"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informat...
As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica, published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia.
Originally published in 1963.
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As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His...
