Home > Academy of Natural Sciences >   Lewis and Clark Herbarium: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Digital Imagery Study Set: Special Publications No. 19
	Our Price: $30.00 Year: 2002 Binding CD-ROM ISBN 0910006555 Product Code: 0910006555

Description   Earle E. Spamer (au); Richard M. Mccourt (au) The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 is one of the great stories of exploration in America. Few of the scientific specimens collected by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark survive, except for hundreds of pressed plants in The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Digital images in this CD-ROM show each plant in more detail than ever before. Browse through the collection, plant by plant. Read the labels written by Lewis in the field between 1804 & 1806. Refer to facsimile reprints of the original records & colored engravings of Lewis’s gatherings as published in the first comprehensive catalogue of American plants by Frederick Pursh in 1813. Read facsimile reprints of important 19th century publications about the plants. Scientific descriptions & historical comments by Lewis & Clark scholars bring the herbarium completely up to date for the first time in a century. Comprehensive indexes provide guides to places & dates of collection, common names, hundreds of scientific names, & digital illustrations. Includes new information about the Lewis & Clark Herbarium & its history. Images, texts, & indexes are hyperlinked for ease of use.

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