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<dl><dd>John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden</dd>
<dd>Correspondence from Second Lieutenant Egbert B. Birdsall to John Torrey, dated 1827. Birdsall writes from Jefferson Barracks, Misssouri to offer Torrey the skull of an elk, with intact antlers, found by some of his fellow troops "at the point formed by the junction of the Yellowstone River with the Missouri."</dd>
<dd>Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)</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: Elk; Zoological specimens; Birdsall, Egbert B., 1799 or 1800-1845; Torrey, John, 1796-1873; Atkinson, Henry, 1782-1842</div>
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Birdsall, Egbert B.,1799 or 1800-1845</div>
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