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Title: Datura Stramonium.
Identifier(s): APSimg7877; APSimg7877
Description: Call Number: 581.63 B48
Source: American medical botany (581.63.B48);
Subject: Natural history; Botany
Date: n. d.

Title: Arum Triphyllum.
Identifier(s): APSimg7876; APSimg7876
Description: Call Number: 581.63 B48
Source: American medical botany (581.63.B48);
Subject: Natural history; Botany
Date: n. d.

Title: Plant names of the Thompson Indians (Correspondence)
Identifier(s): text:183078
Description: Correspondence among James Teit, Edward Sapir, Frank Shutt (Dominion Chemist), Edwin Hewitt (Dominion Entomologist), James Fletcher, and John Davidson, regarding botanical survey of British Columbia. 31 letters altogether, dating 1897-1919.
Creator: Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922; Shutt, Frank T.; Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939; Fletcher, James; Davidson, John; Hewitt, Edwin
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Botany; Plants--British Columbia
Date: 1897-1919

Title: Botany and Agriculture
Identifier(s): text:334070
Description: Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854et al
Subject: Botany; Agriculture; Natural history
Date: 2022

Title: Catalogue of Plants by Henry Muhlenberg, 1781; Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815. 3. Botanice, 1781.
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:15493
Description: A catalogue of plants, with special reference to North American species, identified and described according to a disused system of Linnaeus. The catalogue was written by Henry Muhlenberg (Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg) who was a Lutheran clergyman and botanist. During the American Revolution, Muhlenberg moved from Philadelphia to Trappe.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Botany--America; Gardening
Date: 1781; 2022

Title: Plant names of the Thompson Indians (notebook)
Identifier(s): text:169638
Description: Notebook of botanical survey by Teit containing plant names listed alphabetically by Latin scientific name, with notes on English names, observations on how common, notes on locations and some uses, and info on places Teit has seen as them. Locations primarily given are those in general tradition territories of Nlaka'pamux ("Thompson Indians") such as Spuzzum, Nicola, Fraser Canyon, and Spences Bridge, though Teit occasionally gives other locations where he has seen particular plants outside of these areas, elsewhere in British Columbia and in Washington State (e.g. Skykomish) as well. Includes one printed map of British Columbia enclosed within notebook showing areas of a botanical survey that may or may not related to Teit's own survey. Part of a larger file that contains associated loose manuscript pages with notes on similar topics, including Nlaka'pamux plant names.; ACLS section S1b.3. One of two parts.
Creator: Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922et al
Subject: Ntlakyapamuk Indians; Plants--British Columbia; Botany; Nlaka'pamux
Date: circa 1910s

Title: I(1C10) Labrador Inuit field notebook
Identifier(s): text:295870
Description: Lists of Inuit names for animals, plants, manufactured objects, etc.; terms of relationship; general vocabulary; texts with interlinear translation. Includes several botanical specimens. Maps of Newfoundland, including railroad and sailing schedules. Also a few Naskapi items on one page. Letter to Speck from E. B. Delabarre, Mar. 4, 1924, A.L.S., 3p., discussing tales he had heard in Labrador.
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Inuit; Newfoundland and Labrador; Naskapi Indians; Botany
Date: 1924-1934

Title: Botanical journal, 1799-1814
Identifier(s): text:310324
Subject: Travel; Natural history; Botany; Natural History
Date: 1799-1814

Title: The acorns and their germination
Identifier(s): text:1182; local: APSimg6640; local: 191
Description: Describes the structure and development of acorns in numerous species of oaks (Quercus). Reprinted from the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 4 (no. 1), pp. 190-92.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1183, no. 7.
Creator: Engelmann, George, 1809-1884et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Oaks; Seeds
Date: [1880]

Title: The North American sylva, [missing line] of the forest trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, considered particularly, with respect to their uses in the arts and introduction in commerce. Including also the description and figures of the most useful European forest trees.
Identifier(s): text:1783; APSimg6470; Goodman Number: 197; 973 C683 No. 44
Description: Prospectus for an English-language version of Michaux's three volume work published in 1817. Michaux's North America sylva was first published in French (1810-13).
Creator: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Forests; Trees
Date: 1817

Title: 18, Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, London, N. W., Dec. 15th, 1889. Dear Sir, I am addressing this circular letter to a number of field botanists for the purpose of suggesting a line of research which can scarcely fail to prove of interest to some of them, while it would certainly prove of much help to me
Identifier(s): text:1786; APSimg6473; Goodman Number: 203; 973 C683 No. 312
Description: Requests cooperation from field botanists receiving letter to test his hypothesis that species originate from "sexual variation, such that while infertility continues unimpaired within the limits of the physiologically affected group, some degree of isolation supervenes between members of this group and the unaffected portion of the species." Signed in type by George J. Romanes.
Creator: Romanes, George John, 1848-1894
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Research
Date: 1889

Title: Prospectus d'un ouvrage ayant pour titre: Florindie, ou Histoire phisico-économique des végétaux de la torride.... Cet ouvrage, dédié au Cercle des Philadelphes, sera orné d'un grand nombre de figures dessinées & coloriées par l'auteur
Identifier(s): text:1135; local: APSimg6641; local: 192
Description: Received by the American Philosophical Society on March 20, 1789 from [Charles] Arthaud, secretary of the Cercle des Philadelphes. Includes illustration featuring design of sunrays and boughs tied with ribbon.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1086, no. 15.
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Plants
Date: 1788

Title: Tableau botanique des genres observes en Russie et disposes selon la méthode naturelle (Call number: 580 L62)
Identifier(s): text:540; APSimg6753; Goodman Number: 194
Description: Botanical table of specimens observed in Russia. The table is organized according to the "natural method."; Six individual sheets intended to be put together to form a single broadside. Extra oversized. Located in map cabinet.
Creator: Liboschitz, Joseph, 1783-1824
Source: Printed Material; http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=48643
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Specimens; Plants
Date: 1810

Title: Description of a new North American plant
Identifier(s): graphics:1100; APSimg6129
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany
Date: 1802

Title: The Genus Rosa and the Modern Rose
Identifier(s): video:1452
Description: How did we get from the first Rose (Rosa Chinensus) to the most modern (Sweet Mademoiselle)? Steven Hutton talks about the evolution of the rose.
Subject: History of Science; Roses, evolution; Botany; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11