Home > Academy of Natural Sciences >   Jefferson’s Botanists: Lewis and Clark Discover the Plants of the West
	Our Price: $20.00 Year: 2004 Pages: 25 Binding Paperback ISBN 0910006598 Product Code: 0910006598

Description   Richard McCourt (au); Earle Spamer (au) This beautiful concise book discusses how Meriwether Lewis collected plant specimens on the journey of exploration that he & William Clark led across the American West to the Pacific Ocean & back, sent by Pres. Thomas Jefferson. It includes facsimile excerpts from their original journals. The task of plant collecting was Lewis’s military duty, but he seems to have had a real flair for collecting & describing the specimens. It is clear that he spent long hours observing the specimens, perhaps with a magnifying glass, cross-checking the anatomy of the plant before him with an illustrated ed. of Linnaeus’s botany book. The hundreds of Lewis & Clark specimens that survive today, known as the Lewis & Clark Herbarium, are stored in protective folders in special storage cabinets, in a climate controlled room at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Visiting scholars can readily retrieve & study the plants. Illus.

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