United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1871-1877 Search this
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Place:
United States
West (U.S.)
Date:
1877
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See A. Hunter Dupree's volume on Asa Gray, pp. 406-408.
Summary:
Hayden Survey Group (United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1871-1877) seated at a field luncheon table outside a tent. L to R: unknown; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; unknown; Asa Gray; Mrs. Strachey; Mrs. Asa Gray; unknown; Dr. Lambourne; James Stevenson; Lt. Gen. Sir Richard Strachey, R.E.; Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden; unknown. Black servant stands to the right of the group. Hooker, president of the Royal Society of London, was making a botanical tour of the United States with Professor Asa Gray of Harvard. Gray and Hooker subsequently published an essay on the geographical distribution of plants in the Rockies, a reflection in their interest in Darwinian evolution. Specimens from the survey were deposited at the Smithsonian Institution.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 2
