Amos Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence
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Amos Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence 1816 1840
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Author : Amos Eaton
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Amos Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence
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Author : Amos Eaton
language : en
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Release Date : 1816
Amos Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence written by Amos Eaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1816 with Barite categories.
Correspondence from Amos Eaton to John Torrey, dated 1816-1840. The correspondence begins the year after Eaton's release from prison, while he is living in New Haven, Connecticut, studying natural science ("I intend to know all that can be known of mineralogy and botany in this country"), and working on a book with Yale professor Eli Ives. Shortly after the death of his second wife in late 1816 Eaton relocates to Massachusetts, and begins a period he calls "this wandering life," travelling to deliver limited series' of popular lectures in botany, chemistry, and geology throughout New York State and New England. His letters are tart, opinionated, affectionate, and a touch paranoid. His fondness for Torrey is clearly and continually evident, even when, alarmed by Torrey's suggestion that he too embark on a series of popular lectures, he pragmatically lists the younger man's strengths and weaknesses: "I will tell you what you are and are not, in a few words ... Your personal presence is not commanding—Your language and manner are not prepossessing—Your literature has not a classical polish. Then what has raised you above every individual of your years in North America? It is your discriminating powers, your indefatigable research, set off to the best advantage by that modest confidence for which you are distinguished." Clearly stung by what he sees as an ongoing conspiracy by the same "enemies" who contributed to his earlier incarceration, Eaton often requests Torrey's discretion when discussing a new project, and wonders aloud what their reaction will be to his successes. His modest accounting of his own talent ("I can bring down the labors of the learned to the capacities of illiterate boys and girls as well as anyone") doesn't dim his enthusiam for geology and botany, or for teaching his students, both male and female. He writes with great enthusiasm of new acquaintences he esteems, like Chester Dewey and Charles Upham Shepard; conversely, when his gimlet eye lands on those he finds wanting ("What is the matter with Rafinesque?"), like William Cooper ("an obsolete blackguard"), his pronouncements are scathing. Later years see a slowing in the frequency of the letters, particularly after Torrey's marriage and the end of Eaton's "wandering" in Troy, New York, where he founds the Rensselaer School. In later years too, there are painful episodes of friction between Eaton and Torrey's protege, Asa Gray. In the midst of a long tirade, however, Eaton pauses to reassure Torrey of his undying affection: "We are like some old husband and wife," he write in 1831, "who scold each other, fret, snark, &c., but when either is in distress the other feels it to the heart." Obsolete and unresolved plant and mineral names mentioned include Cardamine spathulata, Cimicifuga serpentaria, Convallaria umbellata, Draba arabiformis, Hydroglossum, Hydrophyllum virginicum, Kalmis galuca, Monotropa procera, Orchis blephariglottis, Polygonum natans, Veronica virginica, and Schoharite.
John Torrey And Amos Eaton Correspondence
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Author : John Torrey
language : en
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Release Date : 1818
John Torrey And Amos Eaton Correspondence written by John Torrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with Botanical specimens categories.
Correspondence from John Torrey to Amos Eaton, dated 1818, discussing the distribution of Eaton's books to booksellers; the difficulty of identifying a shipment of specimens Eaton recently sent ("You send me such poor specimens of your plants that if I did not know them well I should have never been able to determine them"); work on Eaton's Manual; and other botanical matters, as well as Torrey's recent graduation from medical school: "I have now got my sheepskin & have full powers granted me to kill & destroy in any part of the earth-- I expect soon to open an office in the City." The second document is titled "Remarks on Eaton's translations of Acharius," with notes on a number of lichen genera; it is undated, and may have originally been enclosed with the letter. Unresolved plant names mentioned include Smyrnium aureum.
Amos Eaton Papers
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Author : Amos Eaton
language : en
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Amos Eaton Papers written by Amos Eaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Geology categories.
The Amos Eaton papers (MC 11) consist of correspondence, Eaton's herbarium (1830), his geological journal (1830-1836), journal fragments, an 1821 deed to the Old Bank Place (the original home of the Rensselaer School), two instruments used by him (steel mineralogist's forceps and a bone letter opener/paper folder), three geological survey drawings, and an undated sketch and comments on women's fashions. Correspondents include William Aiken, Lewis C. Beck, William Marcy, Oliver Steele, John Torrey, Silas Wright, and founder of the Troy Female Seminary, Emma Willard. The collection also contains correspondence among Eaton family members, including Almira Eaton, Amos B. Eaton, Daniel Cady Eaton, Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton, Timothy D. Eaton, Sarah C. Eaton, William B. Eaton, Typhena Cady, and Nathan Halsey; many of the letters are also available as typed transcriptions.
Eaton Papers
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Author : George F. Eaton
language : en
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Eaton Papers written by George F. Eaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Educators categories.
Correspondence with various members of the Eaton family, 1819-1940 (28 letters). Correspondents include Amos Eaton (first senior professor of the Rensselaer School), Almira Eaton, Sarah C. Eaton, Daniel C. Eaton, Timothy D. Eaton, Typhena Cady, John Torrey, and Emma Willard (founder of the Troy Female Seminary). Also, two publications by or about Amos Eaton, and two instruments used by him (steel mineralogist's forceps and a bone letter opener, n.d.).
Dewitt Clinton And Amos Eaton
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Author : David I. Spanagel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Dewitt Clinton And Amos Eaton written by David I. Spanagel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with History categories.
How did geology and politics inform scientific ideas and contribute to New York's prominence in the early nineteenth century? David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that promoted it in nineteenth-century New York. Focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal, Spanagel shows how a cluster of assumptions about the peculiar landscape and entrepreneurial spirit of New York came to define the Empire State. In so doing, he sheds light on a particularly innovative and fruitful period of interplay among science, politics, art, and literature in American history.
Amos Eaton
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Author : Ethel M. McAllister
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Amos Eaton written by Ethel M. McAllister and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Amos Eaton
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Author : Harlan Hoge Ballard
language : en
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Release Date : 1897
Amos Eaton written by Harlan Hoge Ballard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.
Chester Dewey And John Torrey Correspondence
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Author : Chester Dewey
language : en
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Release Date : 1818
Chester Dewey And John Torrey Correspondence written by Chester Dewey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with Botanical specimens categories.
Correspondence from Chester Dewey to John Torrey, dated 1818-1862. In letters spanning six decades, Dewey addresses a wide variety of issues botanical, mineralogical, chemical, geological and zoological. Occasionally using eccentric spelling and syntax he complains of shipping difficulties ("What is the matter that my letters are so long in reaching you-- all is not well somewhere..."), and discusses at length the work and opinions of scores of mutual colleagues. "Dr. Cooper loves a hot theory of geology," he writes in 1822, during a discussion of the merits of Neptunian and Volcanian theory. Between regular shipments of plant, animal, and mineral specimens--in one 1820 letter, Dewey informs Torrey he is sending "bugs & butterflies" suffocated in turpentine, along with a freshwater "lobster" (probably a crayfish)-- the older man offers professional encouragement and advice, particularly concerning Torrey's publications and the politics and logistics surrounding the New York Lyceum. "Your paper is very handsome on the Gibbsite," Dewey writes in 1822; and a year later, "Your Lyceum is really doing great things-- & I am glad." At other times Dewey loses patience with Torrey over gaps in his letter-writing, and other lapses like failing to appear to pick up a packet of letters from a mutual friend who was visiting New York. The first long discussion of the genus Carex-- the study of which would occupy Dewey for the rest of his life via his series of articles titled "Caricography"-- appears in December 1820. Indeed, more serious tensions arise in 1825 and 1835 over the territorial lines drawn around "the carices" by Dewey, Torrey, Francis Boott, Lewis Schweinitz, and Amos Eaton. Dewey also expresses some dismay over Torrey's adoption of the natural system of classification, or "the Natural Method" as he calls it. By 1862, however, the disputes have been resolved and Dewey has even made peace with Torrey's lapses in correspondence: "I see that Dr. B[oott] complains of your not writing him; so I will not complain, if you neglect so great a cordial friend." A few letters include instances of marginalia in Torrey's hand.
Daniel Cady Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence
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Author : Daniel Cady Eaton
language : en
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Release Date : 1856
Daniel Cady Eaton And John Torrey Correspondence written by Daniel Cady Eaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Botanical specimens categories.
Correspondence from Daniel Cady Eaton to John Torrey, dated 1856-1860, discussing botanical specimens and endeavors, particularly in the realm of Eaton's specialty, ferns. Eaton regularly visits Gray in Cambridge and keeps Torrey abreast of his work with Gray and of the plants coming in from all points, largely from the many government-sponsored expeditions of that period. As well as books, the two periodically exchange numbers of the German journal Linnaea.