Florida Explored (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780881466935)

This unique natural history exploration of Florida by members and correspondents of Americas first research natural history museum, Philadelphias Academy of Natural Sciences, reveals the science of discovery and collection of unknown plants, animals, fossils, and artifacts of ancient peoples. The early naturalists, Thomas Say, Titian Peale, Thomas Nuttall, John James Audubon, John LeConte, John Torrey, Hardy Croom, Alvan Chapman, Asa Gray, Clarence Moore, Henry Fowler, Henry Pilsbry, Francis Harper, and others were inspired to explore Florida in the tracks of William Bartram, the colonial explorer of British East and West Florida and author in 1791 of TRAVELS. The godfather of the Academy, Bartram was elected to membership shortly after its founding in 1812. The discoveries and collections, new plants and animals, fossils, and artifacts of ancient peoples, made by Bartram and those who followed him created databases for research and understanding Floridas natural heritage.

Author: Thomas Peter Bennett
ISBN-10: 088146693X
ISBN-13: 9780881466935
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2019
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d