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Florida explored : the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks
- Title
- Florida explored : the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks / Thomas Peter Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, Thomas Peter
- Publication
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Additional Authors
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823.
- Description
- xx, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks
- Subjects
- Naturalists
- Florida
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823
- Natural history
- Florida > Discovery and exploration
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823 > Influence
- Discoveries in geography
- Naturalists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History
- Natural history > Florida
- Biographies
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia History
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- History
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- Naturalists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-382) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10192
- ISBN
- 9780881466935
- 088146693X
- OCLC
- 1083465166
- Author
- Bennett, Thomas Peter, author.
- Title
- Florida explored : the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks / Thomas Peter Bennett.
- Publisher
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-382) and index.
- Added Author
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, east & west Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10192