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Analytical herbarium : designed for the use of students and private collectors

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0035
Abstract

Analytical Herbarium : Designed for the Use of Students and Private Collectors was published in Farmington, Maine, in 1886 and used to collect botanical samples between May and June 1887.

Dates: 1886-1887

John Jackson albums of specimens of dried flowers and plants

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0016
Abstract

This collection consists of two albums of specimens of dried and pressed plants and wild flowers made by early nineteenth-century London Grove, Pennsylvania, botanist John Jackson between 1810 and 1819. One of the albums was given to Dr. Francis Alison (1751-1813), son of the Presbyterian minister and educator Rev. Dr. Francis Alison (1705-1779).

Dates: approximately 1810-1819