Botanical specimens : particular directions for collecting and preserving specimens of plants : extracted from an unpublished treatise on practical botany / by John L. Riddell.

  • Riddell, John Leonard, 1807-1865.
Date:
[1834?]
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Credit: Botanical specimens : particular directions for collecting and preserving specimens of plants : extracted from an unpublished treatise on practical botany / by John L. Riddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) FROM THE WESTERN JOURNAL MEDICO AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES. IDICitflfcAND PHYSI FOR JULY, 1834. 4}&- # Botanical Specimens. Particular Directions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens of Plants, extracted from an unpublished treatise on Practical Botany. By John L. Riddell, A. M.* Those who are about to make a botanical excursion, are generally recommended to provide themselves with a tin box, near 18 inches long and 6 wide, which some have termed a vasculum. Such a box, being impervious to moisture, and an * Every day diminishes the number of individual specimens, and, perhaps, every year annihilates several species of the plants indige- nous to the Valley of the Mississippi; it is, therefore, a matter of the deepest interest, to direct the attention of our people to the study of Botany. This we have more than once attempted to do, by re- views, notices, and exhortations, in this Journal; but with no very encouraging success. As a means of rousing up our students of medi- cine, and young physicians, many of whom (like some of their seniors) have occasionally a little leisure on hand, we insert the following extract from the work which Mr. Riddell proposes in due time to lay before the public. We hope he will append to his practical di- rections, a catalogue of such of the plants of the State of Ohio, as may have fallen under his observation. He is, we feel assured, a sound practical Botanist, who may, perhaps, do for Ohio, sooner or later, what Professor Short is zealously laboring to effect for Ken- tucky. By the way, why does not the Professor bring out the Flora, for which he must have on hand such ample materials] Its publica- tion would do more to promote the study of Botany in the basin of the greatest of rivers, than a thousand of our paragraphs. Editor.