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Florida explored, the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks, Thomas Peter Bennett

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-382) and index

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Florida explored

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Thomas Peter Bennett

the Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks

The work of William Bartram, a colonial explorer of the American Southeast, inspired a group of pioneering naturalists to establish the nation's first research natural history musem in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1812. The discoveries and collections made by Bartram and those who followed him created databases for research and understanding of Florida's natural heritage, current, and future ecosystems

The Bartrams' exploration -- Do you know Bartram's travels? -- Flowering of Bartram's garden -- A glorious enterprise begings -- The first Academy expedition "in Bartram's tracks" with Maclure, Ord, Say, and Peale -- Florida botany...with Baldwin and the Le Contes -- Florida birds...with Peal and Bonaparte -- Florida birds, mammals and plants...with Audubon -- Florida fossils and geology...with Say, Conrad, Tuomey, Agassiz, and Le Conte -- Florida plants and the Torreya legacy, with Nuttall, Ware, Torrey, Gray, Croom, Chapman and others --Florida paleontology and the Expedition of 1886...with Leigy, Willcox, Heilprin, Dall, and others -- Florida's ancient peoples---with Morton, Brinton, Wyman, Moore, Cushing, and others -- Into the twentieth century...with Pilsbry, Fowler, and others -- Bartram redux...with Francis Harper and others

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Philadelphia connection in Bartram's tracks