page_title: John Fraser (botanist)
section_title: Travels
hierarchical_section_title: John Fraser (botanist) / Travels
caption_attribution_description: The United Sates of North America (William Faden 1793) Although Aaron Arrowsmith had published several complex maps of North America by 1796, which included the journeys of Hearne, Pond, Mackenzie, Vancouver and many others, numerous prestigious map-making companies were still publishing maps with most of the details of the western regions vestigial remnants nearly a century old. William Faden, the successor of Thomas Jefferys in his cartographic business, published this map which contains the G. De l’Isle version of the Upper Mississippi river, the La Verendrye form of the Border Lakes, and only a modicum of the new configuration of the Albany and Moose river valleys. It will be noted that there exists such relicts as Kik-Kouan river, Monsipi river and the Perray river. But, notwithstanding this, certain new information has been included, notably the postion of the Hudso’s Bay Company’s inland posts in this region. Manitoba does not fare well on this map. (Warkentin and Ruggles. Historical Atlas of Manitoba. map 51, p. 128) The United Sates of North America with the British Territories and those of Span according to the Treaty of 1784, Engrav’d by Wm. Faden 1793 Map drawn by William Faden. Printed in black with coloured portions. Engraved by William Faden. Published in William Faden, General Atlas. London: 1797: No. 46. Image Source: Library of Congress American Memory Project
context_page_description: John Fraser, FLS, F.R.H.S., was a Scottish botanist who collected plant specimens around the world, from North America and the West Indies to Russia and points between, with his primary career activity from 1780 to 1810. Fraser was a commissioned plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia in 1795, Paul I of Russia in 1798, and for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1806; he issued nursery catalogues c. 1790 and 1796, and had an important herbarium that was eventually sold to the Linnean Society.
context_section_description: As the 18th century came to a close, botanists who hunted plants afar were adventurers and explorers, John Fraser among them, fielding shipwrecks, sieges, slavery, pirates, escaped convicts and hostile natives. Fraser travelled extensively, from Scotland to England, the Americas, the West Indies, Russia, and points between. He began by collecting in Newfoundland from 1780 to 1783 or 1784, and then moved on to the Appalachian Mountains in eastern North America, all without the benefit of railroads or well-established highways. By the time he completed his journeys, John Fraser had introduced about 220 distinct species of plants from the Americas to Europe and beyond.
caption: United States of North America (William Faden 1793)
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