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Historic Images of the SmithsonianSee A. Hunter Dupree's volume on Asa Gray, pp. 406-408.Hayden Survey Group (United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1871-1877) seated at a field luncheon table outside a tent. L to R: unknown; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; unknown; Asa Gray; Mrs. Strachey; Mrs. Asa Gray; unknown; Dr. Lambourne; James Stevenson; Lt. Gen. Sir Richard Strachey, R.E.; Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden; unknown. Black servant stands to the right of the group. Hooker, president of the Royal Society of London, was making a botanical tour of the United States with Professor Asa Gray of Harvard. Gray and Hooker subsequently published an essay on the geographical distribution of plants in the Rockies, a reflection in their interest in Darwinian evolution. Specimens from the survey were deposited at the Smithsonian Institution.Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 2Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Botany
  3. Camping
  4. Discovery And Exploration
  5. Equipment
  6. Equipment And Supplies
  7. Explorations And Expeditions
  8. Geological And Geographical Survey Of The Territories (U.S.)
  9. Gray, Asa
  10. Hayden Survey
  11. Hayden, F. V
  12. Hooker, Joseph Dalton
  13. Lambourne, Dr
  14. Plants
  15. Scientific Expeditions
  16. Strachey, Mrs
  17. Strachey, Richard
  18. United States
  19. United States Geological And Geographical Survey Of The Territories, 1871 1877

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