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Leonard D. Gale and John Torrey correspondence, 1853

by: Gale, Leonard D.(Leonard Dunnell),1800-1883

Publication date: 1853

Topics: Drinking water, Analysis, Water-supply, Gale, Leonard D. (Leonard Dunnell), 1800-1883, Torrey, John, 1796-1873, Ellet, William Henry, 1806-1859

Collection: biodiversity; nybgtorrey; NY_Botanical_Garden

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

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

Correspondence from Leonard D. Gale to John Torrey, dated 1853, discussing the drinking water analysis Torrey has recently been commissioned to perform for the city of Washington D.C. Gale offers the use of his lab in D.C. and "the water evaporated in my Sand bath" to aid in Torrey's analysis. He then goes on to describe the various specimens of oak he has observed in the D.C. area, including the Bartram's oak, or Quercus heterophylla

Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online

Abstract: Correspondence from Leonard D. Gale to John Torrey, dated 1853, discussing the drinking water analysis Torrey has recently been commissioned to perform for the city of Washington D.C. Gale offers the use of his lab in D.C. and 'the water evaporated in my Sand bath' to aid in Torrey's analysis. He then goes on to describe the various specimens of oak he has observed in the D.C. area, including the Bartram's oak, or Quercus heterophylla.