Catalogus plantarum sponte crescentium circa Bethlehem in comitatu Northampton in Pensylvania & Hope in comitatu Sussex in West New Jersey, &c. [n.d.]

Mss.580.K12

Date: n.d. | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 120 p.
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Abstract

Kampman copied this document at the request of John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder "for the information of the [American] Philosophical Society," and Heckewelder transmitted it to the Society.

Background note

Christian Frederick Kampman was a Moravian physician who came to Pennsylvania in 1781; he practiced at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and then Hope in Sussex County, New Jersey, before returning to Bethlehem in 1808.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume, 120 p.

Provenance

Presented by Christian Frederick Kampman and accessioned, 12/1900 (2779).

Early American History Note

This volume records 679 plants found in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Hope West New Jersey.

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Scientific Data

Personal Name(s)

  • Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
  • Kampman, Christian Frederick, 1708-1808

Subject(s)

  • Botany -- Pennsylvania.
  • Medicine
  • Medicine.
  • Plants -- Catalogs.