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<dd>Correspondence from Edward Tuckerman to John Torrey, dated 1838-1856, discussing an enormous number of plant species, including a large number of lichens and alpine species. Torrey's junior by almost two decades, Tuckerman addresses him in exceedingly modest tones: in 1838, early in their correspondence, he opens a letter, "Dear Sir, I feel deeply the privilege I enjoy in thus addressing you." Five years later: "Excuse my boldness in thus speaking of my little paper." Tuckerman generously ascribes the frequent gaps in Torrey's correspondence to his busy schedule, though in a fragment of an undated letter to Asa Gray-- included in this collection-- a touch of hurt finds its way into his words. "I am sorry Dr. Torrey has still left my letter unnoticed-- as well as my book-- but I have no doubt he has reasons for it though I cannot imagine what they are." Obsolete and unresolved plant names mentioned include Asagraea, Aspidium aculeatum, Bartsia pallida, Ceratoschoenus, Ceratoschoenus corniculatus, Corallorhiza multiflora, Empetrum conradii, Geaster quadrifidum, Lactuca integrifolia, Lasierpa hispidula, Panicum clandestinum, Paspalum ciliatifolium, Psilocarya, Sphaeria densta, Trichelostylis mucronulata, Tubularia aquatica, Tuckermannia, and Ulmus racemosa</dd>
<dd>John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden</dd>
<dd>Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York</dd>
<dd>Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Algae; Botanical specimens; Carex; Cyperaceae; Fungi; Mountain plants; Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886 -- Correspondence; Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884; Beck, Lewis C. (Lewis Caleb), 1798-1853; Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889; Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879; Boissier, Edmond, 1810-1885; Boott, Francis, 1792-1863; Brongniart, Adolphe, 1801-1876; Brown, Robert, 1773-1858; Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884; Candolle, Alphonse de, 1806-1893; Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841; Carey, John, 1797-1880; Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823; Darlington, William, 1782-1863; Decaisne, Joseph, 1807-1882; Delessert, Benjamin, baron, 1773-1847; Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867; Duby, J. É. (Jean Étienne), 1798-1885; Eschweiler, Franz Gerhard, 1796-1831; Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Fries, Elias, 1794-1878; Gaudichaud, Charles, 1780?-1854; Gay, Jacques Étienne, 1786-1864; Greene, B. D. (Benjamin Daniel), 1793-1862; Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866; Guillemin, J. A. (Jean Baptiste Antoine), 1796-1842; Halsey, Abraham, 1790-1857; Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865; Kunth, Karl Sigismund, 1788-1850; Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842; Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian, 1792-1860; Lindley, John, 1799-1865; Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843; Macrae, W. F. (William Frederick); Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868; Menzies, Archibald, 1754-1842; Michaux, François André, 1770-1855; Montagne, Jean François Camille, 1784-1866; Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815; Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Oakes, William, 1799-1848; Persoon, C. H. (Christiaan Hendrik), 1755-1837; Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878; Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820; Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850; Sartwell, H. P. (Henry Parker), 1792-1867; Schaerer, Ludov. Emanuel, 1785-1853; Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834; Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828; Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833; Sullivant, William Starling, 1803-1873; Swartz, Olof, 1760-1818; Tenore, Michele, 1780-1861; Vahl, M. (Martin), 1744-1804; Wahlenberg, Georgius, 1780-1851; Willis, Oliver R. (Oliver Rivington), 1815-1902; Wright, Charles, 1811-1885; Zuccarini, J. G. (Joseph Gerhard), 1797-1848</div>
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Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886</div>
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