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Meriwether Lewis collected many hundreds of plants on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. All of the plants Lewis collected in the first months of the Expedition were cached near the Missouri River to be retrieved on the return journey. The cache was completely destroyed by Missouri flood waters.
However, Biddle's narrative account omitted much of the material related to their discoveries in flora and fauna. Since Biddle's account was the only printed account of the original journals for the next 90 years, many of Lewis and Clark's discoveries were later unknowingly rediscovered and given new names.
The foundations for the Corps of Discovery were laid when Thomas Jefferson met John Ledyard to discuss a proposed expedition to the Pacific Northwest in the 1780s. [2] [3] In 1802, Jefferson read Alexander Mackenzie's 1801 book about his 1792–1793 overland expedition across Canada to the Pacific Ocean; these exploratory journals influenced his decision to create an American body capable of ...
Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark. Illustrated by William Muñoz. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-395-91415-1. [6] Moulton, Gary E., ed. (1983–2001). The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Volumes 1–13. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. [8] Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw (2003). Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark. New York ...
Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame, is credited with the first discovery by a European or American of Lewisia, which was known to the local Native Americans as bitterroot. Lewis discovered the specimen in 1806 at Lolo Creek, in the mountain range that became known as the Bitterroot Mountains. [4]
Scientists found a multicolored animal with spiky skin perched on plants in Ecuador and discovered a new species, a study said. NO. 11: COLORFUL, SPIKY CREATURE FOUND PERCHED ON PLANTS IN ECUADOR ...
The oldest version of the article is in better shape; at least it divides plants into "discovered" and "described". I'm not really sure what the latter term means (just that they saw that species?). But it at least seems to mean that news of the species (to the scholarly world) was not first published by Lewis and Clark.
Thankfully, today we've got just such news from a team of scientists who traversed the Bolivian Andes to bring us the discovery of 20 new animal and plant species, plus the re-discovery of four ...