as meetings with physicians, educators, politicians, clergymen, and other learned individuals; other portions of the account describe landscapes and natural phenomena, with references to mineral specimens collected en route, and observations re the native population of each locale. Also includes volume, "A Selection of Letters of or Pertaining to John Edwards Holbrook, 1832-1860," transcribed by Reese E. Griffin, Jr., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, typed transcripts from original manuscript collections held by the American Philosophical Society, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, containing correspondence with Achille Valenciennes, Samuel George Morton, Samuel S. Haldeman, George Ord, John E. Gray, Joseph Leidy, John LeConte, Louis Agassiz, and John Vaughan. Holbrook, John Edwards, and Reese Edwards Griffin (1900). A selection of letters of or pertaining to John Edwards Holbrook, 1832-1860. S.l: s.n. "The manuscripts on which these transcripts are based are from the collections of the American Philosophical Society (APS), and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP)". Holbrook, John Edwards (1965). Fishes of Florida, Georgia, etc. Charleston: Russell & Jones. Detached from the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. References External links Academy of Natural Science: Information on his North American Herpetology + biographical note. Biographical memoir of John Edwards Holbrook, 1794-1871 — 1903 work by Theodore Gill (From Google Books). American herpetologists American taxonomists 1796 births 1871 deaths Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Brown University alumni People from Beaufort, South Carolina Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni 19th-century American physicians 19th-century American zoologists