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| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham showing the geological profile of the land between Utica and Knob Creek, Kentucky at a scale of 1/2 inch to a mile. |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Eriophorum Gracile. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is known by the common name slende... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Page 11 of a speech written by Increase Lapham on embryonic development in plants. There are drawings at the top of the page. |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Scirpus Pungens. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name Common Three-Square. It is a... |
| Date: | 02 15 1830 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks. |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Varia. It is a genus of plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the Cyperaceae fami... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a rig designed by Mr. Orange Dibble for removing rocks and other large debris from deep canal cuts. |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Cyperaceae. Memebers of this family of plants are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called "true"... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Oryzopsis asperifolia or Mountain Rice (Rough-Leaved Rice Grass). |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic... |
| Date: | 12 22 1830 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of the geological profile between the Sandusky plains and Portsmouth, Ohio. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Zizania aquatica. The plant's common name is Northern Wild Rice. |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a Union mondonta (or Unio soleniformis) shell. There are also two views of another shell drawn below and a drawi... |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Setaris Italica or foxtail millet and Panicum miliaceum or proso millet. There are also inset drawings of a spik... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Drawings of Datura Stramonium, more commonly known by the names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkwe... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv... |
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