William Ea Aiken And John Torrey Correspondence 1830 1862 PDF Download

Correspondence from William E.A. Aiken to John Torrey, dating from 1830-1862, discussing career propects and plant specimens. Aiken's warm, candid letters solicit Torrey's opinions about plants and commiserate over the trials of job-hunting, article writing, and "the mysteries and drudgery of the Laboratory." Later letters are concerned with Aiken's supplemental position as Special Examiner of Drugs and Medicines for the Port of Baltimore, and his concerns about keeping the position in the wake of each subsequent presidential election. Among obsolete plant species mentioned are Poa canadensis, Prunus pubescens, Aspidium intermedium, Salix cerasifolia, Corydalis canadensis, Cardamine virginiana, and Geranium pusillum.