That First Texas Botanist

Authors

S. W. Geiser, Southern Methodist University

Publication Date

11-1-1934

Abstract

Winkler, in his useful account of botanical investigations in Texas, states (p. 5) that Jean Louis Berlandier, a French botanist in the employ of the Mexican Government, was the first to explore Texas botanically, while connected (1828) with the Comision de Limites under General Mier y Teran. In the present writer's own published studies, this statement was repeated, since the collections of Dr. Edwin James while a member of Long's Rocky Mountain Expedition (1819-20) were made in territory not a part of the historic province of Texas, but of Chihuahua, as maps of the period will show. In the modern sense, however, it would appear a punctilio to exclude Dr. James from consideration on such grounds; and the present writer finds himself in agreement with Studhalter's contention that Berlandier is not to be considered the first botanist who worked in Texas.

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Recommended Citation

Geiser, S. W. (1934) "That First Texas Botanist," Field and Laboratory: Vol. 3 : No. 1.
Available at: https://scholar.smu.edu/fieldandlab/vol3/iss1/4