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213 Notes L Introduction 1. Jean Louis Berlandier, Journey to Mexico During the Years 1826 to 1834, trans. Sheila M. Ohlendorf, Josette M. Bigelow, Mary M. Standifer, 2 vols (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1980). The only modern biographical study, (though not a full biography) of Berlandier in English is Samuel Wood Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier (Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1948). A brief biographical study in Spanish is Luis Sánchez Osuna, Explicando a Berlandier (Programa de Apoyo a las Culturas Municipales y Comunitarias, 2004). Berlandier’s life has been put to fiction in James Kaye, Berlandier—A French Naturalist on the Texas Frontier (Bloomington, IN: Trafford, 2010). 2. “Indigenes nomades des Etats Internes d’Orient et d’Occident des territoires du Nouveau Mexique et des deux Californies,” in the possession of Gilcrease Museum, has been translated as The Indians of Texas in 1830, edited by John C. Ewers (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969). Berlandier and Chowell’s collaboration was published as Diario de viage de la Comision de Limites (Mexico City: Juan R. Navarro, 1850). 3. A similar example comes from the life and journeys of the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, who relied on the guide, Mr. Lee, who had the intuitive ability to survive the Oklahoma wilderness of 1819. See Russell M. Lawson, The Land between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall’s Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004). 4. Berlandier, Journey to Mexico, 10, 421, 464; Louis Agassiz, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America (Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1857), 447; Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 7052, Jean Louis Berlandier Papers (hereafter cited as SIAJLB): Jean Louis Berlandier Watercolor Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs Taken of These Works, Boxes 12 and 13. 5. SIAJLB has a tremendous amount of material on Berlandier’s work in the physical sciences and meteorology. For his theories about changes in rivers and coastal waters, see Berlandier, Journey to Mexico, 58–59, 465. 214 Notes to pages xx–8 6. Many of Berlandier’s maps have been reproduced digitally by Yale University’s Beinecke Library at digital images from the Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.berlandi (hereafter cited as DIBL). 7. See Ewers, Indians of Texas. Chapter One 1. Biographical portraits of Couch include Edward F. Kennedy Jr., Lt. Darius Nash Couch in the Mexican War (Taunton, MA: Old Colony Historical Society, 1977), and A. M. Gambone, Major-General Darius Nash Couch: Enigmatic Valor (Baltimore, MD: Butternut and Blue, 2000). For information on Couch’s arrival to Texas and Mexico in 1846, see Kennedy, Lt. Darius Nash Couch, 5–6. Manuscript documents describing Couch’s journey to Mexico are found in the Spencer Fullerton Baird Papers, Unit 7002, Box 18, Smithsonian Institution Archives (hereafter cited as SIA), and Couch manuscripts at the Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Massachusetts. For Comanche unrest, see David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821–1846: The American Southwest under Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), chap. 5. 2. For Drummond and other nineteenth-century botanists, see Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier and Russell M. Lawson, ed., Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, vol. 1, sec. 3, “Botany” (Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 2008). Martino Sessé and Josepho Mociño, Flora mexicana, 2nd ed. (Mexico City: Oficina Tipográfica de la Secretaría de Pomento, 1894). 3. William H. Emory, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Nicholson, 1857), 54. 4. Encyclopedia Americana, (New York: Encyclopedia Americana, 1920), 26: 99–100; Spencer Baird to George B. McClellan, November 6, 1852, in Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography, ed., William H. Dall, (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1915), 282– 83; Darius Couch to Spencer Baird, February 16, 1853, SIA. 5. Couch to Baird, February 16, 1853, March 14, 1853, November 16, 1854, SIA. According to Osuna, Explicando a Berlandier, 14, the widow’s name was Beatriz Concepción Villaseñor. Osuna writes (p. 55) that Joseph Henry had heard about Berlandier and his death and had sent Couch to purchase the collection. There is, however, no evidence upon which to base this conclusion; indeed, Couch’s letters to Baird indicate that the discovery of the collection was through happenstance and the decision to purchase it was his own. Berlandier’s manuscripts in natural and human history are found at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and Yale’s Beinecke Library. 6. Couch...
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