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William Marriott Canby

1831–1904 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Moses Ashley Curtis papers

Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872 · 1840

Papers of Moses Ashley Curtis, the Hillsborough botanist and Episcopal clergyman, 1840 to 1869. They consist of botanical lists sent to Alvin Wentworth Chapman, Charles James Sprague and other naturalists, and a letter from Montreal that came with the diploma naming him a corresponding member of that city's Natural History Society. William M. Canby and Ezra Michener also figure.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Canby, William Marriott, 1831-1904.

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