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Correspondence of Asa Gray and G. W. Clinton |
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The Correspondence of Asa Gray (1810-1888) and George William Clinton (1807‑1885) Edited
by P. M. Eckel, P.O. Box 299, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri,
63166‑0299; email: mailto:patricia.eckel@mobot.org Photographs
of Asa Gray: 1,
2, 3,
4 Introduction It was thought prudent for
a variety of reasons to electronically publish my transcription of and notes
to the following letters by Asa Gray of Cambridge, Mass. to George W. Clinton
of Buffalo, New York. These letters constitute most of those Mr. Clinton
retained of his correspondence with Gray during the years between and
including 1865 and 1877. Some letters, although listed as present in a
catalogue to the letters compiled by the research librarian at the Buffalo
Museum of Science some ten years ago, were absent when the present writer
first began to transcribe the Clinton archives. The missing letters are noted
in the manuscript below. Note also that at some point in the Gray-Clinton
correspondence, Gray passed the burden of this labor on to Sereno Watson, who
inherited some of Gray's research projects. Toward the termination of
correspondence, Gray resumed his contact, but Clinton's presence as a letter
writer seems to have faded not only with Gray, but with others among the
extensive number of botanists with whom he communicated during the period
when Clinton was developing the herbarium for the citizens of the City of
Buffalo. That herbarium was to become the Clinton Herbarium of the Buffalo
Museum of Science (BUF). As of this time, the botanical specimens referred to
in these letters still reside in the cabinets at this institution, but,
unfortunately, some of the books referred to are gone. I have included certain of the notes I have made while transcribing this collection and await more leisure to complete my annotations of the letters. However, I see no reason to withhold the content of these letters from the public at this time. I thank the following sequence of research librarians of the Buffalo Museum of Science during the decade the correspondence was transcribed: Lisa Seivert, who, with her volunteers, constructed the excellent original digital index and catalogue to these letters, her successors Rachael Brew, David Hemmingway, and Kathy Leacock, the present research librarian. P. M. Eckel, St. Louis The Letters 1865 The
proper citation of this electronic publication is: "Eckel, P.
M. 2005. Correspondence of Asa Gray and G. W. Clinton. Res Botanica, Missouri
Botanical Garden Web site.
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot/hist/corrauth/GrayClinton/1_GrayClinton.htm.
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