America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777 /
America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777 / edited by Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne. - Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, c2004. - xxvii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. - Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 249. .
Errata sheet inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.
John Bartram and Peter Collinson: a correspondence of science and friendship / Alan W. Armstrong -- John Bartram and the periodical cicadas: a case study / Gene Kritsky -- Calming John Bartram's passion: Sweden's scientific certification of Philadelphia's botanist / Crystal A. Polis & Robert E. Savage -- "Taste," "curiosity," and the letters of John Bartram and Peter Collinson / Stephanie Volmer -- "The congress held in a pavilion": John Bartram and the Indian Congress at Fort Picolata, East Florida / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- John Bartram's journey to Onondaga in context / William H. Goetzmann -- Narrative, nature, and cultural contact in John Bartram's observations / Thomas Hallock -- The origins, goals, and outcomes of John Bartram's journey on the St. John's River, 1765-1766 / Lawrence Hetrick -- John Bartram's legacy in eighteenth-century botanical art: the Knowsley Ehrets / John Bartram and his garden: would John Bartram recognize his garden today? / Joel T. Fry -- The versatile Bartrams and their enduring botanical legacy / Alfred E. Schuyler & Elizabeth P. McLean.
087169249X (cloth)
2003050212
Bartram, John, 1699-1777.
Botanists--United States--Biography.
Naturalists--United States--Biography.
Errata sheet inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.
John Bartram and Peter Collinson: a correspondence of science and friendship / Alan W. Armstrong -- John Bartram and the periodical cicadas: a case study / Gene Kritsky -- Calming John Bartram's passion: Sweden's scientific certification of Philadelphia's botanist / Crystal A. Polis & Robert E. Savage -- "Taste," "curiosity," and the letters of John Bartram and Peter Collinson / Stephanie Volmer -- "The congress held in a pavilion": John Bartram and the Indian Congress at Fort Picolata, East Florida / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- John Bartram's journey to Onondaga in context / William H. Goetzmann -- Narrative, nature, and cultural contact in John Bartram's observations / Thomas Hallock -- The origins, goals, and outcomes of John Bartram's journey on the St. John's River, 1765-1766 / Lawrence Hetrick -- John Bartram's legacy in eighteenth-century botanical art: the Knowsley Ehrets / John Bartram and his garden: would John Bartram recognize his garden today? / Joel T. Fry -- The versatile Bartrams and their enduring botanical legacy / Alfred E. Schuyler & Elizabeth P. McLean.
087169249X (cloth)
2003050212
Bartram, John, 1699-1777.
Botanists--United States--Biography.
Naturalists--United States--Biography.