Article ID: CBB001210161

Fullerton Baird and Specimen Collection in the Hudson's Bay Territory (2012)

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In 1859, Robert Kennicott, one of the most promising specimen collectors and young naturalists in the United States, was dispatched to Hudson's Bay Territory by Spencer Fullerton Baird, the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian. Kennicott was chosen because of previous experience in Canada, the familiarity with biota of the American Midwest, and because he had a boundless, infectious, enthusiasm for natural history that was typical among Baird's closest protégées. Kennicott was a natural scientific envoy -- or missionary -- to the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, and many officers were enthusiastically `converted' to the cause of collecting and/or overseeing the collection of natural history specimens. Due to this collaboration between Baird, Kennicott and the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, the Smithsonian became a leading center of Canadian natural history in the Western hemisphere.

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Authors & Contributors
Wright, Claire
Hung, Kuang-Chi
Matthew Fishburn
Philp, Jude
Charles A. Kollmer
Grouw, H. Van
Concepts
Natural history
Collectors and collecting
Specimens
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Botany
Biological specimens
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Netherlands
Sydney (Australia)
Antarctica
England
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
Hudson's Bay Company
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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