Rogers McVaugh

The life of Edward Palmer during second half of 19th century, focusing on his pioneering fieldwork as a naturalist in the american west, many maps, diagrams, likely the definitive professional biography of Palmer, the great American naturalist and collector, who collected over 100,000 plants as well as thousands of archaeological, ethnological and zoological items throughout Mexico, Texas, Florida and the American west. Appendices include chronology of his plant collections and locations, field notes, herbaria known to have plants he collected.

"CD-ROM of 1989 full-color digital reproductions of watercolor drawings from the Spanish Royal Expedition to New Spain 1787-1803 in the collection of the Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, with catalogue and historical introduction...Full instructions for navigating the CD-ROM are provided on the disk. Find artworks by accession number, subject, transcription or notes. Also offered is the Curator's Choice, an interesting and beautiful selection of 100 paintings that were exhibited at the Hunt Institute shortly after the collection was acquired"--Accompanying folded sheet.