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T. Charlton Henry and John Torrey correspondence, 1854

by: Henry, T. Charlton(Thomas Charlton)1825-1877

Publication date: 1854

Topics: Botanical specimens, Plants, Anna's hummingbird, Datura stramonium, Henry, T. Charlton (Thomas Charlton) 1825-1877, Torrey, John, 1796-1873

Collection: nybgtorrey; biodiversity; 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 T. Charlton Henry to John Torrey, dated 1854, discussing his present posting as assistant army surgeon at Fort Thorn in New Mexico, and the limited botanical opportunities it offers. "I have passed so much of my time among the bears and foxes that every plant tho' unfamiliar by name is yet so by sight," he writes. He adds, "You are probably aware that almost all my plants &c. have to be collected as it were with finger on trigger..." At the end of the letter Henry includes 3 small pencil sketches of the flower of an unidentified plant he is sending Torrey. Obsolete plant name Hypoxis erecta is mentioned

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 T. Charlton Henry to John Torrey, dated 1854, discussing his present posting as assistant army surgeon at Fort Thorn in New Mexico, and the limited botanical opportunities it offers. 'I have passed so much of my time among the bears and foxes that every plant tho' unfamiliar by name is yet so by sight,' he writes. He adds, 'You are probably aware that almost all my plants &c. have to be collected as it were with finger on trigger...' At the end of the letter Henry includes 3 small pencil sketches of the flower of an unidentified plant he is sending Torrey. Obsolete plant name Hypoxis erecta is mentioned.