Fwd: [Historicdaff] FW: Emily Dickinson's herbarium

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For general interest.  Jim M.




_www.Slate_ (http://www.Slate)  today has a posting on Emily Dickinsonbs
herbarium volume ca. 1839-1846 at the Houghton Library, Harvard:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/04/emily_dickinson_her_collecti
on_of_botanical_speciments.html
It reproduces 3 pages  from the full bound herbarium of 66 pages, which has
roughly 424  plants:
_http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/PJDISJMT33JLBFYYLB3DK5SQ8PHBAVDN3V6MAIP1Y9R65PEY
JY-20470?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=sys%3D009721932&pds_handle=GUEST_
(http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/PJDISJMT33JLBFYYLB3DK5SQ8PHBAVDN3V6MAIP1Y9R65PEYJ
Y-20470?fun
c=find-c&CCL_TERM=sys=009721932&pds_handle=GUEST)
And you can browse  images or the text labels [with modern corrections]
here:
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4184689
[You can toggle the  button between bView Imageb and bView Textb to
read
the text labels and modern  ids.]
If you look at  page 8 of the herbarium there are two Iris cultivars.
The plants are in  very good condition in this collection, and it is a
pretty substantial  collection of plants for someone aged 9-16 when it was
produced. And maybe 75%  or more are correctly identified. I suspect at least
half if not more were  collected from flower gardens around Amherst. So itbs
a
very interesting  sample of actual garden flowers from the 1840s. And there
is also a wide  sampling of New England wild  flowers.

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