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Plants--Type specimens--19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016001

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jeanie Groome Black travel diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0004
Abstract

These three bound diaries were kept by Delaware resident Jeannie Groome Black during her travels in Europe with a group of ten Delawareans from October 13, 1890, to November 25, 1891.

Dates: 1890 October 13-1891 November 8

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