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William Brackenridge

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was to be the chief botanist, and William Rich, a Washington, DC socialite and son of an ambassador, was politically appointed as his assistant. However, Gray never went on the expedition due to taking an academic job, and Rich was appointed botanist, so they needed a new assistant. Rich was
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Reports of the day indicate that Brackenridge was a hardy, strapping six-footer. He and his wife Isobel were Presbyterians. They had at least four children: Agnes (1846), Robert Buist (1847), William D. (1850), and Jane Henderson Brackenridge (1854).
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and California coasts, with trips inland. After returning, he continued working with the collected plants and wrote the fern report for the expedition, included in the overall botanical report written by
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in 1837, where he was employed by Robert Buist, nurseryman. He was appointed horticulturalist, then assistant botanist, for the
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Brackenridge was assigned to the U.S. Ship Vincennes. In 1839, he collected plants in the Sydney and Hunter River districts of
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reportedly of little use on the trip, and Brackenridge did almost all the collecting and serious botany work.
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The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticulturist: Devoted to Horticulture, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
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Bornholdt, Mariana D. "Botanizing Western Oregon In 1841 – The Wilkes Inland Expedition":
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William Dunlop Brackenridge Papers, circa 1838-1875 in Smithsonian Institution Archives:
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United States Exploring Edition Report, Volume XVI - Botany - Filices: Atlas.
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United States Exploring Edition Report, Volume XVI - Botany - Filices.
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Journal of William Dunlop Brackenridge for October, 1841:
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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from 1838 to 1842. Originally, the well-known botanist
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Brackenridge 419:Pneumatopteris glandulifera 155:William Dunlop Brackenridge 25:William Dunlop Brackenridge 658: 160:Brackenridge emigrated to 121:Botanical Garden in Berlin 428:Elaphoglossum intermedium 140: 81: 30: 612:American horticulturists 533:, 26:312. December 1884. 415:Goniopteris glandulifera 218:Brackenridge Passage in 200:Darlingtonia californica 195:California Pitcher Plant 117:Christoph Friedrich Otto 75:Darlingtonia californica 617:British horticulturists 469:Brack. (bef. Brackenr.) 406:Plesioneuron attenuatum 380:Adenophorus sarmentosus 637:Scottish Presbyterians 393:Pneumatopteris costata 376:Polypodium sarmentosum 339:Dennstaedtia samoensis 319:Antrophyum subfalcatum 151: 568:at Wikimedia Commons 278:(list not inclusive) 260:Cyathea brackenridgei 149: 325:Cyrtogonium palustre 193:, he discovered the 150:Brackenridge in 1880 464:author abbreviation 389:Goniopteris costata 335:Sitolobium samoense 136:Brackenr. or Brack. 106:, Secretary of the 361:Blechnum coriaceum 352:Coniogramme pilosa 348:Gymnogramma pilosa 331:(Brack.) 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Index


Ayr
Baltimore
Darlingtonia californica
botany
Patrick Neill
Caledonian Horticultural Society
Edinburgh
Christoph Friedrich Otto
Botanical Garden in Berlin
United States Exploring Expedition
Author abbrev. (botany)

Philadelphia
United States Exploring Expedition
Asa Gray
New South Wales
Oregon
Asa Gray
Mount Shasta
California Pitcher Plant
Darlingtonia californica
John Torrey
Pennsylvania
William Darlington
Puget Sound
Brackenridgea
A. Gray
Ochnaceae
Fiji

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