| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 241 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural history -- South Carolina
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Naturalists -- South Carolina -- Biography
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Natural history
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Naturalists
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Ecology.
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Earth & Environmental Sciences.
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South Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taylor, David, 1962-
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| LC no. |
97045363 |
| ISBN |
0585337322 |
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9780585337326 |
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