Sketch Of The Botanical Work Of The Rev Moses A Curtis

Author : Thomas Fanning Wood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267574162
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Sketch of the Botanical Work of the Rev. Moses A. Curtis, A. M., D. D., F. A. A. S (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Fanning Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketch of the Botanical Work of the Rev. Moses A. Curtis, A. M., D. D., F. A. A. S Correspondence between botanists at that time was very active, and the letters which were interchanged comprised the principal stock of knowledge then available. The letters which have been preserved are very instructive, even at this date. Not only do we find in them the growth of botanical science, but such notes about the state of civilization as to roads, forests, dwellings, farms, taverns, and the social condition of the people, which make them treasure houses for the general historian. The correspondence between John Bartram, and Collinson, Humphrey Marshall, Ellis, Benj. Franklin, and other notables of the day, with an editorial by Dr. Darlington, is one of the few volumes which have preserved letters in a printed form, and few volumes give a more satisfactory insight into the state of our social affairs than this one. It is not a complete pano rama, but the passing allusions to what these itinerant botanists saw, gives a keen relish to their work. It is to be regretted that such a small part of this correspondence is preserved, for like that of mcree and Curtis, much of it is long since inaccessible. En passant it is interesting to observe how little notice these pioneers of science took of the current of political affairs. For although the travels of Wm. Bartram through the Carolinas and Georgia were made during the war of the Revolution, our zealous botanist has no ear for the war-like preparations which must have resounded in the air, but was totally absorbed in what Nature had so lavishly spread out before him. For him no triumph was equal to the discovery of a new plant, the solution of the mysteries of the habits of birds and insects. Like all of his sect, the Friends, Bart ram had the strictest bias against the commotion of war, and this. Added to love of the knowledge of nature, may account for his silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.