Box 1

Scope and Contents: The collection is arranged in two series: manuscripts and drawings.The manuscripts come from several authors and include lists of plants collected on the expedition; some lists appear to have been prepared during the expedition, some appear to have been prepared later. A letter from Brackenridge is accompanied by a brief catalog of phanerogams collected in Hawaii. A letter from Francis Boott is accompanied by notes on Carex and Uncinia. Asa Gray’s notes and his 1650 page...

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List of plants with notes.

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List of plants.

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List of Compositae in Rio Negro, Patagonia; Tierra del Fuego; Chile; Peru; Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]; Tahiti; Samoa; New South Wales; New Zeland: Lord Aukland Island. "East Indias No. 13" is crossed out.

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Letter written in Washington City enclosing a "Catalogue of phanogamous plants, collected at the Sandwich Islands, by the U. States Ex. Expedition." 4 pages.

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With notes. Expedition map pasted on cover.

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Letter written in London containing descriptions of Wilkes Expedition Carices and Unciniae.

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First section consists of lists of species grouped by order, Ranunculaceae -- Cyperaceae, with notes on locations and descriptions of Timonius and Bobea. Second section consists of notes on specimens from Sandwich Islands collected by Menzies, Macrae, Siemann and in Herb. Hooker. Third section consists of notes on specimens from Sandwich Islands in the British Museum.

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Article published in Am Jour Sci I 44: 393-408. 5 copies of world map showing route of expedition published in Am Jour Sci I 45: 132. Map of Hawaii.

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Letter sent from Washington City enclosing a small drawing; receipt for payment to Isaac Sprague for Wilkes Expedition illustration work.