As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica, published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

John Clayton: Pioneer of American Botany

Berkeley, Dorothy Smith

Berkeley, Edmund

Biographies & Memoirs

The University of North Carolina Press

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography." —Choice 
"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy." —Earth Sciences History

George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist (History of American Science and Technology)

Berkeley, Dorothy

Leaders & Notable People

University Alabama Press

Historical

First edition. Biography of the first Librarian of Congress. Minor jacket wear. xvi, 312 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..

John Beckley; zealous partisan in a nation divided (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

American Philosophical Society

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