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Thomas Potts James, Botanist
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Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Potts James (1803-1882), American Botanist. Working for most of his early life as a pharmacist in Philadelphia, James devoted his work to botany after moving to Cambridge in 1866, focusing on mosses. Shown here in near profile, at age 66. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, "Thos. P. James, Philadelphia, 1869."
1869
Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown
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