Plant lists, notes, and correspondence
Subtitle: Frémont expeditions
Contributors: Bigelow, John M. (John Milton), 1804-1878; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
Published: 1843
Language: eng
Subjects: Plants; Scientific expeditions; Frémont Expedition (3rd : 1845-1847); Frémont Expedition (2nd : 1843-1844); Explorers; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Frémont expeditions.; John Torrey papers 1768-1871.; Connecting content : a collaboration to link field notes to specimens and published literature.
Description: Plant lists, notes, and correspondence, chiefly by John Torrey, for 1843-1853. The lists and notes relate to plants collected on Frémont's 2nd and 3rd expeditions to the American West and Torrey's work identifying and describing the plants. Also included are Asa Gray's notes and correspondence from Asa Gray to John Torrey regarding Frémont's expeditions, a list of explorers who collected plants in the American West, and a list of camps during an exploration for a railroad route from Arkansas to California in 1853 by John Milton Bigelow.
Notes: This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.

John Torrey Papers (PP), Series 4, Frémont expeditions, Folders 9.65-9.72.

In English.

Finding aid available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online http://library.nybg.org/finding_guide/archv/torrey_ppf.html.
Table of contents: title: Folder 9.65. List of plants for 1843; title: Folder 9.66. Localities of plants for 1844; title: Folder 9.67. Plant lists and notes, 2nd expedition, 1843-1844; title: Folder 9.68. List of plants of Frémont collections 1845-1846, sent by Torrey to Engelmann Fall 1848; title: Folder 9.69. Numbers corresponding to labels on the plants commencing with the first plant gathered in California, 1845-1846; title: Folder 9.70. Explorers & travellers who have collected plants in California, Oregon, Washington Territory & Nevada, n.d.; title: Folder 9.71. List of camps of an exploration from Fort Smith Ark. to San Pedro Cal. by Dr. Bigelow commenced July 15, 1853; title: Folder 9.72. Asa Gray lists and letters regarding Frémont's expeditions, n.d.