Correspondence
Subtitle: Syme (George) and Engelmann (George)
Published: 1879
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Correspondence; Plants; Benthamia; Abies lowiana; Fagaceae; Pinus radiata; Pinus muricata; Pinaceae
Other titles: George Engelmann Papers, 1831-1914.
Description: Incoming correspondence to George Engelmann from George Syme, for 1879.  A copy of a correspondence sent to Joseph Hooker from George Syme. The correspondence relates to detailed discussion of classifications of Abies species, comparisons of Lowiana concolor of Southern Colorado and Sierras, grandis, Douglasii from Southern Colorado and Northern California. Engelmann's classification of Pinus ponderosa from Colorado, Oregon, and the Russian River in California, Benthamia, Jeffreyi compared with ponderosa. Pinus contorta raised from seed from Pacific coast compared with Dolanderi and Murrayanta, muricata and insignis, pugens of Wind River Mts. in Montana; Abies Engelmannia, memziesii on 49th parallel and Cascade Mts.

Folder contains original letter.
Notes: The collection is open for research.

George Engelmann Papers, 1831-1914 / Correspondence (Collection 1 RG 4/1/5/1), Missouri Botanical Garden Archives.

Finding aid available from Missouri Botanical Garden Library and online http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/molib/part2.pdf.