Box 8, Folder 5: Correspondence 1855
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- Created Date
- 1855
- Description
This folder contains correspondence, both personal and professional, sent and received by Increase Allen Lapham in 1855.The correspondence covers a variety of Lapham's interests and pursuits; including plants, geology, zoology, requests for books, and Wisconsin legislation. Much of the correspondence relates to acquiring funding for a statewide zoological and botanical survey by Lapham and his colleagues. Also included are several deeds of gift from institutions for maps, Transactions of the State Historical Society, and Transactions of the State Agricultural Society.
- Creator
Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Agriculture
American Antiquarian Society
Animals
Archaeology
Aztalan
Birds
Data & lists
Forests
Geography
Geology
Images (not Lapham's)
Indian mounds (effigy mounds)
Institutions & associations
Lakes
Law & legislation
Map-making
Maps (included in folder)
Plants
Publications (Lapham's)
Smithsonian Institution
Grasses
Surveys & surveying
Baird, Spencer (1823-1887)
Draper, Lyman C. (1915-1891)
Gray, Asa (1810-1888)
Hoy, Philo Romayne (1816-1892)
Warren, J. C
Short, Charles W
Haven, Samuel F
Whitney, Josiah D
Draper, Lyman C
Farwell, Leonard J
Wisconsin Natural History Association
Lathrop, John H
Juneau, Solomon (1793-1856): Showalter, E. R
Odlin, William H
Henry, Joseph
Engleman, George
Flanner, Henry B
Litton, A
Garrigues, Samuel S
Mead, Samuel B
Cooley, Dennis
Thaddeus William
Savage, John A
Sartwell, H. P
Clapp, Asahel
Wood, Alphonso
Willer, Benjamin K
Meehan, John S
Neim, E. D
Parry, C. C
Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)
Lea, Isaac
Colton, George
Runnals, E. L
Bartlett, John
Hardinger, W
Kennicott, John A
Cook, R
Dewey, C
Cassin, John
Bancroft, George
Shumard, B. F
Sprague, Charles J
Geological Society of London
Chilton, John R
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Boston Society of Natural History
Abbot, Samuel L
Harris, Thaddeus William
The Corporation of Harvard College
Carroll College
Library of Congress - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875. Box 8, Folder 5: Correspondence 1855. 1855. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/9053. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875, (1855) Box 8, Folder 5: Correspondence 1855. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/9053
- MLA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/9053>.