South Carolina naturalists : an anthology, 1700-1860 / introduction by and edited by David Taylor ; foreword by Rudy Mancke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, David, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--South Carolina.

Natural history.

Naturalists--South Carolina--Biography.

Naturalists.

Natural history--Biography--South Carolina.

Naturalists--South Carolina.

South Carolina--Biography.

South Carolina.

South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

United States.

South Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.

Leverett family--Correspondence.

Leverett family.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 241 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Foreword / Rudy Mancke

"The beasts of Carolina," from A new voyage to Carolina / John Lawson

"Rattle-snake," from The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama islands / Mark Catesby

From letters / Eliza Lucas Pinckney

From letters to Linnaeus and John Ellis / Alexander Garden

From Travels through North and South Carolina / William Bartram

From his journal / Andre Michaux

From Travels in the confederation / Johann David Schoepf

From Flora Caroliniana / Thomas Walter

From A view of South Carolina / John Drayton

From Flora Carolinaeensis and from Medical and philosophical essays / John L.E.W. Shecut

"Segment of poem about the boundary expedition," from his Astronomer's journal, during an expedition of the upstate / George Blackburn

"On the power of Sarracenia adunca to entrap insects" in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society / James MacBride

From Introductory lecture on chemistry, delivered at the College of South-Carolina, in Columbia, January, 1820 / Thomas Cooper

From An inquiry into the propriety of establishing a national observatory / James Courtenay

The vulture / John Bachman

The usefulness of snakes / Edmund Ruffin

"Alligator Mississippiens," from North American herpetology / John Edwards Holbrook

From A lecture on magnetism of the human body / Robert W. Gibbes

From Report on the geology of South Carolina / Michael Tuomey

From A paper on the subject of meteorology in its connections with agriculture, &c. / Henry W. Ravenel

From A sketch of the medical botany of South Carolina / Francis Peyre Porcher

"A plea for birds" in Southern agriculturist / John Perkins Barratt

From Botany of Edings' Bay / Lewis R. Gibbes

From Inaugural addresses / John LeConte and Joseph LeConte

From Industrial map of South Carolina : the natural resources, forest growth, and agricultural products of the state / Oscar Montgomery Lieber

From "The limestone springs of St. John's Berkeley" in Proceedings of the Elliott society / Edmund Ravenel

Autumn coloring, fall of the leaf, winter habit of trees and shrubs in the lower country of South Carolina / William Wragg Smith

From Post-Pleiocene fossils of South Carolina / F.S. Holmes

From The ladies' Southern florist / Mary Catherine Weir Rion

Epilogue : from Views of nature / Stephen Elliott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-33732-2