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America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777 / edited by Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 249.Publication details: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, c2004.Description: xxvii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 087169249X (cloth)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q11.P612 vol. 249 QK31.B3
Contents:
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.

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.

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