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iiDavid Hosack, by Charles Heath, engraving, 1816, after oil paintings by Thomas Sully and John Trumbull. Collections of the National Library of Medicine. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101433834.
viiiEupatorium perfoliatum specimen, n.d. Courtesy of the Linnean Society of London. http://linnean-online.org/9961/.
6David Hosack, by Charles Heath, engraving, 1816, after oil paintings by Thomas Sully and John Trumbull. Collections of the National Library of Medicine. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101433834.
17View of Columbia College in the City of New York, by J. Anderson and Cornelius Tiebout, engraving, 1790. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-7b08-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
35Title page, Edinburgh New Dispensatory, by William Lewis. Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1791. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.
40William Curtis, by William Evans, stipple engraving and etching, 1802. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
50Gentlemen botanizing, by unknown artist, engraving, 1777, from the title page of Flora Londinensis, vol. 1, by William Curtis. Biodiversity Heritage Library/Smithsonian Libraries.
54Hosack’s entrance ticket to Dr. Andrew Marshal’s anatomy course in London, 1793–1794. Archives and Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.
67View of New-York, 1787, lithograph by George Hayward, 1828. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-282c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
77Traveling medicine case, c. 1814, Museum of the City of New York. Bequest of Gherardi Davis in memory of his wife, Alice Davis, 1941. 41.304.4AB.
78Samuel Latham Mitchill, by Rembrandt Peale, oil painting, 1822. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Archive Collection 2011-022.
98Samuel Bard, by James or Ellen Sharples, pastel on paper, n.d. Archives and Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.
114DeWitt Clinton, by Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman, engraving, c. 1828. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LCDIG-pga-05649.
120Mastodon, by Titian Ramsay Peale, wash drawing, 1821. Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches, Mss.B.P31.15d. © American Philosophical Society.
125Unknown artist, Philip Hamilton, c. 1801. Reprinted from Allan McLane Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910). New-York Historical Society. Photography © New-York Historical Society.
130François André Michaux, by unknown artist, oil painting, 1819. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Director and the Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
134Loblolly Bay, by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, from François André Michaux’s North American Sylva, Vol. 2, Plate 58 (Paris: C. d’Hautel, 1819). Biodiversity Heritage Library/University of Pittsburgh Library System.
140Charles Gilbert Hine, Thirteen Trees and Alexander H. House [Hamilton Grange], n.d. Platinum print photograph. Charles Gilbert Hine Photograph Collection, image #87991d, New-York Historical Society. Photography © New-York Historical Society.
158Alexander von Humboldt, by Charles Willson Peale, oil painting, 1804. Courtesy of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
173Page from Hosack’s memorandum book (garden section). Courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine Library.
181Dr. Hosack’s Greenhouses, by John Trumbull, pencil drawing, 1806. John Trumbull Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
184John Wakefield Francis (detail), by Charles Robert Leslie, oil on wood. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY.
197Festuca specimen detail, 1806. “Diplachne fusca subsp. fascicularis (Lam.) P. M. Peterson & N. Snow” (specimen barcode 1735347). C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium of the William & Lynda Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden.
212John Vanderlyn, Theodosia Burr (Mrs. Joseph Alston), 1802. Oil on canvas, 22 in. × 18¾ in. Object #1931.60, New-York Historical Society. Photography © New-York Historical Society.
231The Elgin Botanic Garden, by Hugh Reinagle, sepia drawing, c. 1812. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-7b5a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
238Jardin des Plantes, Paris (formerly the Jardin du Roi), by Jean-Baptiste Hilair, ink and aquarelle, 1794. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
263Eupatorium perfoliatum specimen, n.d. Courtesy of the Linnean Society of London. http://linnean-online.org/9961/.
267Canada thistle, by James Inderwick, engraving published in American Medical and Philosophical Register, edited by David Hosack and John W. Francis, vol. 1, no. 2, 1814.
280John Torrey, by Daniel Macnee, crayon drawing, n.d. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Director and the Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
309Hosack’s front lawn and mansion at Hyde Park, by Alexander Jackson
Davis, pencil drawing, c. 1830. Alexander Jackson Davis Architectural Drawings and Papers, c. 1804–1900, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
311View of the David Hosack Estate at Hyde Park, New York, from Western Bank of the Hudson River, by Thomas Kelah Wharton, ink drawing, 1832. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
325Columbia’s Low Library with yews, photograph, c. 1897. University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
32630 Rockefeller Center Plaza, by Wurts Bros. Photographers, n.d. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-f25e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
COLOR IMAGES
David Hosack, by Thomas Sully, oil painting, 1815. Courtesy of Winterthur Museum. Gift of John Hampton Barnes, Jr., in memory of the warm friendship of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hampton Barnes, with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Francis du Pont, 1977.170.
Hosackia stolonifera (creeping-rooted Hosackia), from Edward’s Botanical Register, vol. 23 (1837), Plate 1977. Image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, contributed by Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library.
View of Bayard’s Mount, the Collect Pond, and New York City, by Archibald Robertson, watercolor and chalk, 1798. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures. Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954.
Brodway-gatan och Rådhuset i Newyork, by Carl Fredrik Akrell, lithograph, n.d. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-b382-d471-e040-e00a180654d7.
Ralph Earl (1751–1801). Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton). 1787. Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and General Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 1971. 71.31.2.
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