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Essays on the city of Philadelphia's role in the Expedition and full-length articles about Lewis's mentors
 

 

Contributions of Philadelphia to Lewis and Clark History
Part III-- Locations in Philadelphia of Lewis and Clark Journals and Related Materials

by Paul Russell Cutright

1. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 19th and Race Street

Lewis and Clark Herbarium. More than 200 dried, preserved plant specimens brought back by the explorers.

Alexander Wilson's original sketches of Lewis's woodpecker and Clark's nutcracker.

Letters pertaining to the botany and zoology of the Expedition by Charles J. Maynard, Witmer Stone, and Edward Tuckerman.

 
Continue to 2. American Philosophical Society
Updated August 13, 2001
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