Botanists -- United States -- Correspondence; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 -- Correspondence
[136] Josef Mariano Mocino. Was on the coast of California in 1792.
Botanized in Mexico, especially in the northern part. His drawings,
brought to Europe after the death of Sessé, were left with Aug. Pyr.
de Candolle. When suddenly reclaimed they were copied for him by the
united labors of the ladies of Geneva.
[137] William Trelease, St. Louis; professor of botany at Washington
University, and director of Missouri Botanical Garden.
[138] Thomas Coulter. Little is known of him. He explored in Mexico
many years and in California in 1831 and 1832. Was appointed Curator
of the herbarium of the Dublin Botanic Garden, where he died in 1843.
[139] John Goldie, 1793-1886. Traveled in North America, 1817 to 1820,
collecting plants. After his return to Scotland emigrated to Ayr,
Ontario, 1844, where he died.
[140] Dr. Gray returned for this last book to the title of his first
book, published in 1836, _Elements of Botany_.
[141] Eduard Süss; professor of paleontology at Vienna.
[142] A. W. Eichler, 1839-1887; succeeded Alexander Braun at Berlin.
[143] Henry John Elwes, author of the sumptuous monograph of the genus
Lilium.
[144] Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, 1823-1889; professor of botany at
Hamburg, and an authority on orchids.
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