330“most striking”: quoted by Nisbet 2012, 104.
330“scientific men”: quoted by Robbins 1964, 160. On Hosackia, see Lindley 1829. Today, the plants called Hosackia are classified in the genus Lotus, in the Fabaceae (or bean) family.
331“first spark of zeal”: quoted by McAllister 1941, 220. By the year of DH’s death, Samuel Thomson, a traveling healer from New Hampshire, and his followers had launched a medico-botanical movement of their own, organizing conventions and societies and publishing a journal. Thomsonian medicine was grounded in some of the same principles as DH’s practice, but followers of Thomsonianism were often scathingly critical of “regular” medicine (Haller 2000).
331boys and girls: Hosack 1824b, 21.
331botany instruction: e.g., Eastern Argus, 6 May 1828; Evening Star, 26 August 1834; Vermont Republican and Journal, 11 June 1831.
331DH’s head gardeners: Sayers 1838 and Gentle 1841.
331color lithographs in their seed catalogues: Kevles 2011, 2013; Eustis 2014.
332Downing, Olmsted, Vaux: Rybczynski 2003.
332Torrey elected president: Mickulas 2002, 28.
333the Brittons: on the Torrey Botanical Club, their trip to Kew, and the founding of the NYBG, see Mickulas 2007.
333Morgan’s participation: Strouse 1999, 290.
333officers of the NYBG: Mickulas 2007, 65.
333landscape of the NYBG: see esp. Mickulas 2007 and Atha et al. 2016.
334statue of Hosack: Shrady, ed., 1903, 47.
SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note: The titles and dates of the historical newspapers and periodicals I have consulted regarding particular events and people appear in the Notes.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS CONSULTED
American Philosophical Society
Barton-Delafield Papers
Caspar Wistar Papers
Catharine Wistar Bache Papers
Bache Family Papers
David Hosack Correspondence
David Hosack Letters and Papers
Peale Family Papers
Archives nationales de France (Pierrefitte-sur-Seine)
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Série AJ/15
Bristol (England) Archives
Sharples Family Papers
Columbia University, A. C. Long Health Sciences Center, Archives and Special Collections
Trustees’ Minutes, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Student Notes on Hosack Lectures, 1815–1828
Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers of Aaron Burr (27 microfilm reels)
Columbia College Records (1750–1861)
Buildings and Grounds Collection
DeWitt Clinton Papers
John Church Hamilton Papers
Historical Photograph Collections, Series VII: Buildings and Grounds
Trustees’ Minutes, Columbia College
Duke University, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
David Hosack Papers
Harvard University, Botany Libraries
Jane Loring Gray Autograph Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Rush Family Papers, Series I: Benjamin Rush Papers
Gratz Collection
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Thomas Law Papers
James Thacher Papers
Alexander Hamilton Papers
Linnean Society of London
Minutes of the Linnean Society
Correspondence of James Edward Smith
http://linnean-online.org/smith_correspondence.html
Linnean Herbarium
http://linnean-online.org/view/type/specimen/
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque botanique
Manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Botanique, Cryptogamie
Collection d’autographes de botanistes constituée par Gustave Thuret et Edouard Bornet
New York Academy of Medicine
David Hosack Letter Book
David Hosack Memorandum Book
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
John Torrey Papers
Minutes of the New-York Horticultural Society
New-York Historical Society
Bard Family Papers
DeWitt Clinton Papers
DeWitt Clinton Diary, July 1, 1802–November 6, 1810
DeWitt Clinton Diary, November 6, 1810–November 8, 1815
John Pintard Papers
John Randel Jr. Field Books
John Wakefield Francis Collection
Minutes of the New-York Historical Society
David Hosack Collection, 1815–1836
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Thomas Jefferson
New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division
Alexander Anderson Papers, ca. 1775–1870
John Hartshorne Eddy Diary, 1810
John W. Francis Papers
DeWitt Clinton Papers
New York State Comptroller Memorandum Book, 1799–1826
Thomas Kelah Wharton Diary and Sketchbook, 1830–1834
New York Society Library
Circulation Records for Alexander Hosack, 1789–1805
New York State Library (Albany), Manuscripts and Special Collections
Thomas Cole Papers
Office of the Borough President of Manhattan
Farm Maps of John Randel Jr.
Princeton University, Firestone Library
David Hosack Collection
Fuller Collection of Aaron Burr
Royal Society of London, Archives
Journal Books of the Royal Society
Université de Montpellier I, Faculté de Médecine
Fonds Moderne de la Faculté de Médecine, Administration Générale (1794–1981)
University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library
Samuel Latham Mitchill Papers
Yale University
John Trumbull Collection, Beinecke Library
John Trumbull Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library
Asa Fitch Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library
ADDITIONAL PUBLISHED OR ONLINE PAPERS CONSULTED
John Adams Papers, Founders Online, National Archives https://founders.archives.gov/about/Adams
The Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr. Edited by Mary-Jo Kline. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Alexander Hamilton Papers, Founders Online, National Archives https://founders.archives.gov/about/Hamilton
The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary. Edited by Julius Goebel Jr., et al. 5 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964–1981.
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Harold C. Syrett. 26 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961–1987.
Papers of John Jay, Columbia University
https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/jay
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay. Edited by Henry P. Johnston. 4 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/jay-the-correspondence-and-public-papers-of-john-jay-4-vols
Thomas Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives
https://founders.archives.gov/about/Jefferson
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series. Edited by Jeff Looney. 13 vols. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004–2016.
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Series 1, General Correspondence, Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/
The Papers of James Madison, Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-madison-papers/
The Papers of James Madison, Digital Edition. Edited by J. C. A. Stagg. University of Virginia.
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
The Papers of James Monroe. Edited by Daniel Preston and Marlena C. DeLong,
assistant editor. 6 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003–2017.
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CITY DIRECTORIES
Webster, Noah, ed. The New York Directory for 1786. New York: Trow City Directory Company, 1886 [1786].
Duncan, William, ed. The New-York Directory, And Register. New-York: T. and J. Swords, 1792, 1794, 1795.
Longworth, David, ed. The American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory. New York: David Longworth, 1796.
Longworth, David, ed. Longworth’s American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory. New York: David Longworth, 1797–1805.
Jones, John F., ed. Jones’s New-York Mercantile and General Directory. New York: Printed for the editor, 1805.
Longworth, Thomas, ed. Longworth’s American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory. New York: Thomas Longworth, 1805–1829.
PLANT DATABASES
C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden: sweetgum.nybg.org
International Plant Names Index: www.ipni.org
New York City EcoFlora: https://www.nybg.org/science-project/new-york-city-ecoflora/
The Plant List: www.theplantlist.org
United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database: www.plants.usda.gov
SELECTED WORKS OF DAVID HOSACK
[n.d.] “Notes on Midwifery.” Manuscript, New York Academy of Medicine.
1791. Inaugural Dissertation on Cholera Morbus. New York: Samuel Campbell.
1794. “Observations on Vision.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 84: 196–216.
1795. Syllabus of the Course of Lectures on Botany, Delivered in Columbia College. New York: John Childs.
1797. “Observations on the Yellow Fever, In a Letter, from Dr. David Hosack of New-York, to his friend in Philadelphia. August 28, 1797,” reprinted in New-York Magazine; Or, Literary Repository 2, New Series [no issue number] (September 1797): 453–55.
1798a. “A Case of Hydrocele, Cured by Injection.” Medical Repository 1, no. 3: 419–20.
1798b. “Singular Cases of Disease in Infancy.” Medical Repository 1, no. 4: 507–10.
1801. An Introductory Lecture on Medical Education Delivered at the Commencement of the Course of Lectures on Botany and Materia Medica. New York: T. and J. Swords.
1804. “Lectures on Botany.” Manuscript, New York Academy of Medicine.
1806. A Catalogue of Plants Contained in the Botanic Garden at Elgin. New York: T. and J. Swords.
1810a. “Description of Elgin Garden, the Property of David Hosack, M.D.” Portfolio and Boston Anthology (January 1810).
1810b. “Botanical Description of the Canada Thistle or Cnicus Arvensis.” American Medical and Philosophical Register 1, no. 2 (October 1810): 211–16.
1810–1814. American Medical and Philosophical Register. Edited by David Hosack and John W. Francis. New York: C. S. Van Winkle.
1811a. Hortus Elginensis. New York: T. and J. Swords.
1811b. Observations on Croup or Hives, Addressed in a Letter to A. R. Delile. New York: C. S. Van Winkle.
1811c. Observations on the Establishment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York. New York: C. S. Van Winkle.
1811d. Statement of Facts Relative to the Establishment and Progress of the Elgin Botanic Garden, and the Subsequent Disposal of the Same to the State of New York. New York: C. S. Van Winkle.
1812a. “A Case of Anthrax, Successfully Treated.” American Medical and Philosophical Register 2 (April 1812): 388–92.
1812b. “An Account of the Powles Hook Steam Ferry-Boat, in a letter to Dr. David Hosack, from Robert Fulton, Esq.” American Medical and Philosophical Register 3 (July 1812): 196–203.
1814. “Eulogium on the Late Dr. Rush.” Analectic Magazine 3 (January 1814): 47–53.
1815. Remarks on the Treatment of the Typhoid State of Fever. New York: Van Winkle and Wiley.
1816. Syllabus of the Courses of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic. New York: Van Winkle and Wiley.
1819. “Some Account of the Seckle [sic] Pear.” Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 3: 256–58.
1820a. Inaugural Discourse Delivered to the New-York Historical Society on the Second Tuesday of February, 1820. New York: C. S. Van Winkle.
1820b. Observations on the Means of Improving the Medical Police of the City of New-York. New York: College of Physicians and Surgeons.
1824a. Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science. 3 vols. New York: J. Seymour.
1824b. Inaugural Discourse Delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society. New York: J. Seymour.
1824c. “Observations on the Weather and Diseases of the City of New-York from January 1st 1810, to January 1st 1814.” In Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science, vol. 2, 334–463. New York: J. Seymour.
1826. Observations on the Medical Character: Addressed to the Graduates of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, at the Commencement, Held on the 4th of April, 1826. New York: J. Seymour.
1829. Memoir of De Witt Clinton. New York: J. Seymour.
1830. “Address Delivered at the First Anniversary of the New York City Temperance Society, May 11, 1830.” Appendix in First Annual Report of the New York City Temperance Society, 1–10. New York: Sleight and Robinson.
1838. Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic. Edited by Henry W. Ducachet. 3 vols. Philadelphia: H. Hooker.
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