Dr. Thomas Coulter - Field note nos. 1-1514, Mexico 1825

Thomas Coulter (1793–1843), of Dundalk, Ireland was a physician and noted as a botanical explorer in North America. The records of his work are fragmentary and some species he discovered waited half a century before being confirmed by later botanists such as Dr. Asa Grey, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution and Professor of Botany at Harvard University. Collecting in Mexico and California, he spent time working as a physician in Real del Monte a silver mining hub in Mexico. This 1825 field book contains a list of botanical specimens he collected in the newly independent Mexico. Join other transcription volunteers on this project and help us to make Dr. Coulter's work more accessible to today's botanists and naturalists.