https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Jane_Colden&feed=atom&action=historyJane Colden - Revision history2024-03-29T07:32:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Jane_Colden&diff=41921&oldid=prevM-westerby at 20:02, September 8, 20212021-09-08T20:02:17Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], February 18, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:5)<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Colden_1923_5"</del>> Colden 1923, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], February 18, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:5)<ref>Colden 1923, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5:5 </ins>[https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have had severall Letters from Europe & a pretty parcell of Seeds from Russia from Dr Mounsey cheif Physician to the Army & Physician to the Prince Royal of Russia they are mostly Persian seeds I have sent a few to Miss Colden. . . I mentioned to Miss Colden that the Small Bags of Shells something like Hops that she has are the reall Matrices of the ''Buccinum ampullatum'' of Dr Lister. . . I shall in my next mention to Miss Colden the method of preserving Butterflies &c.” [[#Colden_1923_5_5_cite|back up to History]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have had severall Letters from Europe & a pretty parcell of Seeds from Russia from Dr Mounsey cheif Physician to the Army & Physician to the Prince Royal of Russia they are mostly Persian seeds I have sent a few to Miss Colden. . . I mentioned to Miss Colden that the Small Bags of Shells something like Hops that she has are the reall Matrices of the ''Buccinum ampullatum'' of Dr Lister. . . I shall in my next mention to Miss Colden the method of preserving Butterflies &c.” [[#Colden_1923_5_5_cite|back up to History]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], May 23, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:10&ndash;11)<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Colden_1923_5"</del>></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], May 23, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:10&ndash;11)<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colden 1923, 5:10-11 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Its now passed the Season of Seeds but I'll endeavour to procure Such as Miss Colden may want this year, tho my present Business confines me much to Town. I have not had an hour to spend in the woods this 2 months which makes me turn rusty in Botany.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Its now passed the Season of Seeds but I'll endeavour to procure Such as Miss Colden may want this year, tho my present Business confines me much to Town. I have not had an hour to spend in the woods this 2 months which makes me turn rusty in Botany.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 1, 1755, letter to John Frederic Gronovius (Colden 1923: 5:29&ndash;31)<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Colden_1923_5"</del>></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 1, 1755, letter to John Frederic Gronovius (Colden 1923: 5:29&ndash;31)<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colden 1923, 5:29-31 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I thought that Botany is an Amusement which may be made agreable for the Ladies who are often at a loss to fill up their time if it could be made agreable to them[.] Their natural curiosity & the pleasure they take in the beauty & variety of dress seems to fit them for it[.] The chief reason that few or none of them have hitherto applied themselves to this study I believe is because all the books of any value are wrote in Latin & so filled with technical words that the obtaining the necessary previous knowlege is so tiresome & disagreable that they are discouraged at the first setting out & give it over before they can receive any pleasure in the pursuit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I thought that Botany is an Amusement which may be made agreable for the Ladies who are often at a loss to fill up their time if it could be made agreable to them[.] Their natural curiosity & the pleasure they take in the beauty & variety of dress seems to fit them for it[.] The chief reason that few or none of them have hitherto applied themselves to this study I believe is because all the books of any value are wrote in Latin & so filled with technical words that the obtaining the necessary previous knowlege is so tiresome & disagreable that they are discouraged at the first setting out & give it over before they can receive any pleasure in the pursuit.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], n.d. [October 1755?], letter to [[Peter Collinson]] (Colden 1923: 5:37&ndash;38)<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Colden_1923_5"</del>></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], n.d. [October 1755?], letter to [[Peter Collinson]] (Colden 1923: 5:37&ndash;38)<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colden 1923, 5:37-38 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I shall [. . .] send you a Sample of my daughter Jenny’s performances in Botany. As it is not usual for woemen to take pleasure in Botany as a Science I shall do what I can to incourage her in this amusement which fills up her idle hours to much better purpose that the usual amusements eagerly pursued by others of her sex[.] As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]] I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them[,] for which purpose I would buy for her Tourneforts Institutes & Morison’s Historia plantarum, or if you know any better books for this purpose[,] as you are a better judge than I am[,] I will be obliged to you in making the choice[.] If Mr Calm’s [''sic''] Observations in America be published pray send it to me or any thing else which is new & you like on that subject. At the bottom I shall annex a list of some things & other books I must desire the favour of you to send to me<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>. . . </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I shall [. . .] send you a Sample of my daughter Jenny’s performances in Botany. As it is not usual for woemen to take pleasure in Botany as a Science I shall do what I can to incourage her in this amusement which fills up her idle hours to much better purpose that the usual amusements eagerly pursued by others of her sex[.] As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]] I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them[,] for which purpose I would buy for her Tourneforts Institutes & Morison’s Historia plantarum, or if you know any better books for this purpose[,] as you are a better judge than I am[,] I will be obliged to you in making the choice[.] If Mr Calm’s [''sic''] Observations in America be published pray send it to me or any thing else which is new & you like on that subject. At the bottom I shall annex a list of some things & other books I must desire the favour of you to send to me. . .</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Ainsworth’s Latin & English Dictionary </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Ainsworth’s Latin & English Dictionary </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], April 15, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:141&ndash;42)<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Colden_1923_5"</del>></ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], April 15, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:141&ndash;42)<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colden 1923, 5:141-142 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Did Miss Colden receive the Seeds which I sent; they were the following The Chionanthus or Fringetree. 2d The Hop-tree a new genus&mdash;3 Yellow Jessamy 4 Campellia a most beautifull flowring shrub&mdash;yucca foliis filamentosis&mdash;Pavia or scarlet Horsechesnut&mdash; Umbrella tree or the Magnolia foliis Amplissimis flore ingenti Candidi. . .</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Did Miss Colden receive the Seeds which I sent; they were the following The Chionanthus or Fringetree. 2d The Hop-tree a new genus&mdash;3 Yellow Jessamy 4 Campellia a most beautifull flowring shrub&mdash;yucca foliis filamentosis&mdash;Pavia or scarlet Horsechesnut&mdash; Umbrella tree or the Magnolia foliis Amplissimis flore ingenti Candidi. . .</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:2008.jpg|thumb|Fig. 4, Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript illustrating nos. 68, 69 (“Lilium Yellow Lilly”), and 70 (''Lysimachia''), c. 1750s.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:2008.jpg|thumb|Fig. 4, Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript illustrating nos. 68, 69 (“Lilium Yellow Lilly”), and 70 (''Lysimachia''), c. 1750s.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To aid Colden’s botanical studies, her father assembled a small collection of illustrated botanical books. <span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>“As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]],” he remarked to [[Peter Collinson]] in a letter of c. 1755, “I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them” ([[#Colden_1923_5_37|view text]]).<ref>Cadwallader Colden to Peter Collinson, n.d. [October 1755?], in Colden 1923, 5:37&ndash;38, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]. The books requested from Collinson included ''Institutiones rei herbariae'' (1700) by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and ''Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis'' (1680&ndash;99) by Robert Morison, as well as Robert Ainsworth’s Latin and English dictionary. Cadwallader Colden later reported that his daughter had acquired “some Knowledge of botanic latin tho’ she does not otherwise understand anything of the language”; Cadwallader Colden to John Fothergill, October 18, 1757 in Colden 1923, 5: 203, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> [[Peter Collinson|Collinson]] supplemented these books with engravings by the renowned botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770), <span id=Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>“for your Ingenious Daughter to take Sketches of the fine Turn of the Leaves.” He also expressed his wish that [[William Bartram]] were nearby, for his drawings of plants “come the Nearest to Mr Ehrets” and “he would much assist her at first Setting out” ([[#Colden_1923_5_190|view text]]). In fact, some of [[William Bartram|Bartram’s]] drawings may already have come to hand. In 1755 his father wrote Jane that [[William Bartram|William]] had “made A pockit [packet] of very fine drawings for the[e] far beyond <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Mark Catesby|</del>Catesbys<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>, took them to town & tould me he would send them very soon.”<ref>John Bartram to Jane Colden, January 24, 1757, in Bartram 1992: 413&ndash;14, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To aid Colden’s botanical studies, her father assembled a small collection of illustrated botanical books. <span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>“As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]],” he remarked to [[Peter Collinson]] in a letter of c. 1755, “I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them” ([[#Colden_1923_5_37|view text]]).<ref>Cadwallader Colden to Peter Collinson, n.d. [October 1755?], in Colden 1923, 5:37&ndash;38, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]. The books requested from Collinson included ''Institutiones rei herbariae'' (1700) by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and ''Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis'' (1680&ndash;99) by Robert Morison, as well as Robert Ainsworth’s Latin and English dictionary. Cadwallader Colden later reported that his daughter had acquired “some Knowledge of botanic latin tho’ she does not otherwise understand anything of the language”; Cadwallader Colden to John Fothergill, October 18, 1757 in Colden 1923, 5: 203, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> [[Peter Collinson|Collinson]] supplemented these books with engravings by the renowned botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770), <span id=Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>“for your Ingenious Daughter to take Sketches of the fine Turn of the Leaves.” He also expressed his wish that [[William Bartram]] were nearby, for his drawings of plants “come the Nearest to Mr Ehrets” and “he would much assist her at first Setting out” ([[#Colden_1923_5_190|view text]]). In fact, some of [[William Bartram|Bartram’s]] drawings may already have come to hand. In 1755 his father wrote Jane that [[William Bartram|William]] had “made A pockit [packet] of very fine drawings for the[e] far beyond Catesbys, took them to town & tould me he would send them very soon.”<ref>John Bartram to Jane Colden, January 24, 1757, in Bartram 1992: 413&ndash;14, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Cadwallader Colden]] assiduously promoted the accomplishments of his “Ingenious Daughter” through the closely interconnected network of American and European botanists with whom he corresponded.<ref>For a discussion of gender bias in the reception and mediation of Jane Colden’s work by male botanists, see Joan Hoff Wilson, “Dancing Dogs of the Colonial Period: Women Scientists,” ''Early American Literature'' 7 (Winter 1973): 226&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/KPZDGFD6 view on Zotero].</ref> He sent examples of her botanical texts and illustrations to the physician Robert Whytt (1714&ndash;1766) in Edinburgh, the merchant-botanist [[Peter Collinson]] and physician John Fothergill (1712&ndash;1780) in London, Gronovius in Holland, and [[Alexander Garden|Garden]] in South Carolina.<ref>Colden 1923, 5:29&ndash;31, 37, 39, 190, 198, 202&ndash;3, 217, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Bartram 1992, 393, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> They, in turn, trumpeted the news to others&mdash;including Linnaeus and the British merchant and naturalist John Ellis (c. 1710&ndash;1776)&mdash;urging the acceptance of her discoveries as new genera, and the naming of a plant ''Coldenella'' in her honor.<ref>Collinson 2002, 198, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Smith 1821, 45, 95, 98, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G8I8I4DR view on Zotero]; Colden 1923, 5:139, 198, 297, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; “Notices of European Herboria, Particularly Those Most Interesting to the North American Botanist,” ''American Journal of Science and Arts'' 40 (1840): 5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IFPUFEGJ view on Zotero]. In addition to her so-called ''Gardenia'' discussed above, Colden’s ''Fibraurea'' (gold thread) was discounted as a new genus by Linnaeus. See Colden 1923, 5:202, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Smith 1821, 95, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G8I8I4DR view on Zotero]. Colden’s father also sent Alexander Garden her description and drawing of what she took to be a new genus of ''Filependula'', but it was never received; see Colden 1923, 5:217, 227, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> Colden herself expressed ambivalence about the exposure that accompanied her growing fame. [[Alexander Garden]] was chastised for writing too extravagantly of her achievements, and she begged one of his correspondents, Charles Alston, for more discretion.<ref>Colden 1923, 5:10&ndash;22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Philippon, 24&ndash;25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Philippon_cite"></span>“You complasantly intimate that anything that I shall communicate to you, shall not be conceald,” she wrote on May 1, 1756. “But this I must beg as a favour of you, that you will not make any thing publick from me, till (at least) I have gained more knowledge of Plants” ([[#Philippon|view text]]).<ref>For Colden’s negotiation of “a borderland where the decorum expected of a botanist overlapped with that expected of a woman,” see Gronim 2007, 35&ndash;59, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Cadwallader Colden]] assiduously promoted the accomplishments of his “Ingenious Daughter” through the closely interconnected network of American and European botanists with whom he corresponded.<ref>For a discussion of gender bias in the reception and mediation of Jane Colden’s work by male botanists, see Joan Hoff Wilson, “Dancing Dogs of the Colonial Period: Women Scientists,” ''Early American Literature'' 7 (Winter 1973): 226&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/KPZDGFD6 view on Zotero].</ref> He sent examples of her botanical texts and illustrations to the physician Robert Whytt (1714&ndash;1766) in Edinburgh, the merchant-botanist [[Peter Collinson]] and physician John Fothergill (1712&ndash;1780) in London, Gronovius in Holland, and [[Alexander Garden|Garden]] in South Carolina.<ref>Colden 1923, 5:29&ndash;31, 37, 39, 190, 198, 202&ndash;3, 217, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Bartram 1992, 393, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> They, in turn, trumpeted the news to others&mdash;including Linnaeus and the British merchant and naturalist John Ellis (c. 1710&ndash;1776)&mdash;urging the acceptance of her discoveries as new genera, and the naming of a plant ''Coldenella'' in her honor.<ref>Collinson 2002, 198, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/Q49SCPA4 view on Zotero]; Smith 1821, 45, 95, 98, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G8I8I4DR view on Zotero]; Colden 1923, 5:139, 198, 297, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; “Notices of European Herboria, Particularly Those Most Interesting to the North American Botanist,” ''American Journal of Science and Arts'' 40 (1840): 5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/IFPUFEGJ view on Zotero]. In addition to her so-called ''Gardenia'' discussed above, Colden’s ''Fibraurea'' (gold thread) was discounted as a new genus by Linnaeus. See Colden 1923, 5:202, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Smith 1821, 95, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G8I8I4DR view on Zotero]. Colden’s father also sent Alexander Garden her description and drawing of what she took to be a new genus of ''Filependula'', but it was never received; see Colden 1923, 5:217, 227, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> Colden herself expressed ambivalence about the exposure that accompanied her growing fame. [[Alexander Garden]] was chastised for writing too extravagantly of her achievements, and she begged one of his correspondents, Charles Alston, for more discretion.<ref>Colden 1923, 5:10&ndash;22, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Philippon, 24&ndash;25, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="Philippon_cite"></span>“You complasantly intimate that anything that I shall communicate to you, shall not be conceald,” she wrote on May 1, 1756. “But this I must beg as a favour of you, that you will not make any thing publick from me, till (at least) I have gained more knowledge of Plants” ([[#Philippon|view text]]).<ref>For Colden’s negotiation of “a borderland where the decorum expected of a botanist overlapped with that expected of a woman,” see Gronim 2007, 35&ndash;59, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], February 18, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:5)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"> Colden 1923, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_5_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], February 18, 1755, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:5)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"> Colden 1923, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_5_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have had severall Letters from Europe & a pretty parcell of Seeds from Russia from Dr Mounsey cheif Physician to the Army & Physician to the Prince Royal of Russia they are mostly Persian seeds I have sent a few to Miss Colden. . . . I mentioned to Miss Colden that the Small Bags of Shells something like Hops that she has are the reall Matrices of the ''Buccinum ampullatum'' of Dr Lister. . . . I shall in my next mention to Miss Colden the method of preserving Butterflies &c.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have had severall Letters from Europe & a pretty parcell of Seeds from Russia from Dr Mounsey cheif Physician to the Army & Physician to the Prince Royal of Russia they are mostly Persian seeds I have sent a few to Miss Colden. . . . I mentioned to Miss Colden that the Small Bags of Shells something like Hops that she has are the reall Matrices of the ''Buccinum ampullatum'' of Dr Lister. . . . I shall in my next mention to Miss Colden the method of preserving Butterflies &c.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 1, 1755, letter to John Frederic Gronovius (Colden 1923: 5:29&ndash;31)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_29_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 1, 1755, letter to John Frederic Gronovius (Colden 1923: 5:29&ndash;31)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_29_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I thought that Botany is an Amusement which may be made agreable for the Ladies who are often at a loss to fill up their time if it could be made agreable to them[.] Their natural curiosity & the pleasure they take in the beauty & variety of dress seems to fit them for it[.] The chief reason that few or none of them have hitherto applied themselves to this study I believe is because all the books of any value are wrote in Latin & so filled with technical words that the obtaining the necessary previous knowlege is so tiresome & disagreable that they are discouraged at the first setting out & give it over before they can receive any pleasure in the pursuit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I thought that Botany is an Amusement which may be made agreable for the Ladies who are often at a loss to fill up their time if it could be made agreable to them[.] Their natural curiosity & the pleasure they take in the beauty & variety of dress seems to fit them for it[.] The chief reason that few or none of them have hitherto applied themselves to this study I believe is because all the books of any value are wrote in Latin & so filled with technical words that the obtaining the necessary previous knowlege is so tiresome & disagreable that they are discouraged at the first setting out & give it over before they can receive any pleasure in the pursuit.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], n.d. [October 1755?], letter to [[Peter Collinson]] (Colden 1923: 5:37&ndash;38)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_37_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], n.d. [October 1755?], letter to [[Peter Collinson]] (Colden 1923: 5:37&ndash;38)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_37_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I shall [. . .] send you a Sample of my daughter Jenny’s performances in Botany. As it is not usual for woemen to take pleasure in Botany as a Science I shall do what I can to incourage her in this amusement which fills up her idle hours to much better purpose that the usual amusements eagerly pursued by others of her sex[.] As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]] I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them[,] for which purpose I would buy for her Tourneforts Institutes & Morison’s Historia plantarum, or if you know any better books for this purpose[,] as you are a better judge than I am[,] I will be obliged to you in making the choice[.] If Mr Calm’s [''sic''] Observations in America be published pray send it to me or any thing else which is new & you like on that subject. At the bottom I shall annex a list of some things & other books I must desire the favour of you to send to me. . . . </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I shall [. . .] send you a Sample of my daughter Jenny’s performances in Botany. As it is not usual for woemen to take pleasure in Botany as a Science I shall do what I can to incourage her in this amusement which fills up her idle hours to much better purpose that the usual amusements eagerly pursued by others of her sex[.] As she cannot have the opportunity of seeing plants in a [[botanic garden|Botanical Garden]] I think the next best is to see the best cuts or pictures of them[,] for which purpose I would buy for her Tourneforts Institutes & Morison’s Historia plantarum, or if you know any better books for this purpose[,] as you are a better judge than I am[,] I will be obliged to you in making the choice[.] If Mr Calm’s [''sic''] Observations in America be published pray send it to me or any thing else which is new & you like on that subject. At the bottom I shall annex a list of some things & other books I must desire the favour of you to send to me. . . . </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Philippon"></div>Colden, Jane, May 1, 1756, to Charles Alston (quoted in Philippon 2001: 24&ndash;25)<ref>Philippon 2001, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Philippon_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Philippon"></div>Colden, Jane, May 1, 1756, to Charles Alston (quoted in Philippon 2001: 24&ndash;25)<ref>Philippon 2001, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Philippon_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have the unexpected honour of your very obliging favour of the 8th of Sept last, but blush to think how much you will be disappointed in the expectations Dr Garden has raised in you, if ever you should have a further knowledge of me, his fondness for incouraging the Study of Botany, made him pass the most favourable judgement of the little things I have done in that way. It must be no less a desire to incourage the Study of this delightfull Science, could induce you to condescend to honour me with an invitation to correspond with you. If I can in any way serve you, either by sending you Seeds, or the Characters (such as I am able to form) of our Native Plants, I shall always be proud of obeying your Commands; And shall at this time, so far presume on the liberty you give me as to send you the Characters of a Plant which my Father tells me, he take to be the same that Dr Gronovius in his Flora Virginica calls Panax foliis ternis tornatis Page 147. I shall be glad to know whether you think it is a new Plant, if not, to what Genus you suppose it belongs; To which if you will please to add any Corrections, or be so good as to give me any Instructions in Botany, they will be most thankfully received.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have the unexpected honour of your very obliging favour of the 8th of Sept last, but blush to think how much you will be disappointed in the expectations Dr Garden has raised in you, if ever you should have a further knowledge of me, his fondness for incouraging the Study of Botany, made him pass the most favourable judgement of the little things I have done in that way. It must be no less a desire to incourage the Study of this delightfull Science, could induce you to condescend to honour me with an invitation to correspond with you. If I can in any way serve you, either by sending you Seeds, or the Characters (such as I am able to form) of our Native Plants, I shall always be proud of obeying your Commands; And shall at this time, so far presume on the liberty you give me as to send you the Characters of a Plant which my Father tells me, he take to be the same that Dr Gronovius in his Flora Virginica calls Panax foliis ternis tornatis Page 147. I shall be glad to know whether you think it is a new Plant, if not, to what Genus you suppose it belongs; To which if you will please to add any Corrections, or be so good as to give me any Instructions in Botany, they will be most thankfully received.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Bartram_1992_413"></div>[[John Bartram|Bartram, John]], January 24, 1757, to Jane Colden (1992: 413&ndash;14)<ref name="Bartram_1992"></ref> [[#Bartram_1992_413_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Bartram_1992_413"></div>[[John Bartram|Bartram, John]], January 24, 1757, to Jane Colden (1992: 413&ndash;14)<ref name="Bartram_1992"></ref> [[#Bartram_1992_413_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I received thine of October ye 26th 1756 & read it several times with agreeable satisfaction indeed I am very carefull of it & it keeps company with ye choicest correspondents, ye European letters[.] ye viney plant thee so well describes I take to be ye dioscoria of hill & Gronovius tho I never searched ye characters of ye flower so curiously as I find thee hath done. . . . I should be extreamly glad to see thee once at my house & to shew thee my garden. . . . I shewed him [[William Bartram|[William Bartram]]] thy letter & he was so well pleased with it that he presently made a pockit of very fine drawings for the far beyond [[Mark Catesby|Catesbys]] took them to town & tould me he would send them very soon. . . .</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I received thine of October ye 26th 1756 & read it several times with agreeable satisfaction indeed I am very carefull of it & it keeps company with ye choicest correspondents, ye European letters[.] ye viney plant thee so well describes I take to be ye dioscoria of hill & Gronovius tho I never searched ye characters of ye flower so curiously as I find thee hath done. . . . I should be extreamly glad to see thee once at my house & to shew thee my garden. . . . I shewed him [[William Bartram|[William Bartram]]] thy letter & he was so well pleased with it that he presently made a pockit of very fine drawings for the far beyond [[Mark Catesby|Catesbys]] took them to town & tould me he would send them very soon. . . .</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], April 15, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:141&ndash;42)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_141_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Alexander Garden|Garden, Alexander]], April 15, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:141&ndash;42)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_141_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Did Miss Colden receive the Seeds which I sent; they were the following The Chionanthus or Fringetree. 2d The Hop-tree a new genus&mdash;3 Yellow Jessamy 4 Campellia a most beautifull flowring shrub&mdash;yucca foliis filamentosis&mdash;Pavia or scarlet Horsechesnut&mdash; Umbrella tree or the Magnolia foliis Amplissimis flore ingenti Candidi. . . .</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“Did Miss Colden receive the Seeds which I sent; they were the following The Chionanthus or Fringetree. 2d The Hop-tree a new genus&mdash;3 Yellow Jessamy 4 Campellia a most beautifull flowring shrub&mdash;yucca foliis filamentosis&mdash;Pavia or scarlet Horsechesnut&mdash; Umbrella tree or the Magnolia foliis Amplissimis flore ingenti Candidi. . . .</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Peter Collinson|Collinson, Peter]], October 5, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:190)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_190_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Peter Collinson|Collinson, Peter]], October 5, 1757, letter to [[Cadwallader Colden]] (Colden 1923: 5:190)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_190_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have in Mrs Alexanders Trunk Sent you the Herbals you wanted and putt in 2 or 3 of Erhetts Plants, for your Ingenious Daughter to take Sketches of the fine Turn of the Leaves &c. & Lin: Genera.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“I have in Mrs Alexanders Trunk Sent you the Herbals you wanted and putt in 2 or 3 of Erhetts Plants, for your Ingenious Daughter to take Sketches of the fine Turn of the Leaves &c. & Lin: Genera.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 18, 1757, letter to John Fothergill in London (Colden 1923: 5:202&ndash;3)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_202_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], October 18, 1757, letter to John Fothergill in London (Colden 1923: 5:202&ndash;3)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"></ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_202_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“For this reason [the medicinal use of newly discovered plants] I send you the Description & figure of a Plant don[e] by my Daughter Jenny which I think has not been before described & likewise makes a New Genus. Perhaps it may be in the new Edition of Linnaeus’s Characters I have not as yet seen that Edition but if it be there is no figure of it in that book & it may be of use to have the description of a new plant by different hands.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“For this reason [the medicinal use of newly discovered plants] I send you the Description & figure of a Plant don[e] by my Daughter Jenny which I think has not been before described & likewise makes a New Genus. Perhaps it may be in the new Edition of Linnaeus’s Characters I have not as yet seen that Edition but if it be there is no figure of it in that book & it may be of use to have the description of a new plant by different hands.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], February 15, 1758, letter to unknown correspondence [Dr. Robert Whytt?] (Colden 1923: 5:217)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"> </ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_217_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id="Colden_1923_5"></div>[[Cadwallader Colden|Colden, Cadwallader]], February 15, 1758, letter to unknown correspondence [Dr. Robert Whytt?] (Colden 1923: 5:217)<ref name="Colden_1923_5"> </ref> [[#Colden_1923_5_217_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“The characters I made of the plants I was sensible were very imperfect not only from the want of sufficient knowledge in botany but from my not having sufficient opportunity to repeat my examinations of the plants which I only met casually & did not see many of them more than once. Soon after this I was so much engaged in public business that I was obliged to lay aside my botanical researches.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“The characters I made of the plants I was sensible were very imperfect not only from the want of sufficient knowledge in botany but from my not having sufficient opportunity to repeat my examinations of the plants which I only met casually & did not see many of them more than once. Soon after this I was so much engaged in public business that I was obliged to lay aside my botanical researches.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id ="Rutherfurd"></div>Rutherfurd, Walter, n.d. (c. autumn 1758), letter to his family in Scotland, describing a visit to Coldengham (quoted in Rutherfurd 1894: 13)<ref>Livingston Rutherfurd, ''Family Records and Events: Compiled Principally from the Original Manuscripts in the Rutherfurd Collection'' (New York: De Vinne Press, 1894), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/KKXPRT45 view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Rutherfurd_cite|back up to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">history</del>]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<div id ="Rutherfurd"></div>Rutherfurd, Walter, n.d. (c. autumn 1758), letter to his family in Scotland, describing a visit to Coldengham (quoted in Rutherfurd 1894: 13)<ref>Livingston Rutherfurd, ''Family Records and Events: Compiled Principally from the Original Manuscripts in the Rutherfurd Collection'' (New York: De Vinne Press, 1894), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/KKXPRT45 view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Rutherfurd_cite|back up to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“At one of our landings we made an excursion to Coldenham [''sic''] the abode of the venerable Philosopher Colden, as gay and facetious in his conversation as serious and solid in his writings. From the middle of the Woods this Family corresponds with all the learned societies in Europe…. His daughter Jenny is a Florist and Botanist, she has discovered a great number of Plants never before described and has given their Properties and Virtues, many of which are found useful in Medicine, and she draws and colours them with great beauty. Dr. Whyte [Whytt] of Edinburgh is in the number of her correspondents. N.B. She makes the best cheese I ever ate in America.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:“At one of our landings we made an excursion to Coldenham [''sic''] the abode of the venerable Philosopher Colden, as gay and facetious in his conversation as serious and solid in his writings. From the middle of the Woods this Family corresponds with all the learned societies in Europe…. His daughter Jenny is a Florist and Botanist, she has discovered a great number of Plants never before described and has given their Properties and Virtues, many of which are found useful in Medicine, and she draws and colours them with great beauty. Dr. Whyte [Whytt] of Edinburgh is in the number of her correspondents. N.B. She makes the best cheese I ever ate in America.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:2009.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 1, Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript describing no. 69, “Yellow Lilly with the flowers standing upright” (''Lilium philadelphicum''), c. 1750s.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:2009.jpg|thumb|left|Fig. 1, Jane Colden, A page from her botanical manuscript describing no. 69, “Yellow Lilly with the flowers standing upright” (''Lilium philadelphicum''), c. 1750s.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born in New York City, Jane Colden spent most of her life at Coldengham, a 3,000-acre farm established by her father, [[Cadwallader Colden]], in a [[wilderness]] area ten miles west of Newburgh.<ref>For a vivid evocation of life in Coldengham’s “primeval forest” and “untouched wilderness,” see Barbara Hollingsworth, ''Her Garden Was Her Delight'' (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962), 23&ndash;29, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVWRHRP view on Zotero].</ref> She shared an interest in horticulture with her mother, Alice Chrystie Colden (1690&ndash;1762), a keen gardener.<ref>For Jane and Alice Colden’s delight in gardening, see Cadwallader Colden, ''The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden'', 9 vols. (New York: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>New York Historical Society, 1937) 9:12&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ASR288NI view on Zotero]; Cadwallader Colden, ''The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden'', 9 vols. (New York: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>New York Historical Society, 1923), 5:72, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 43, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero]. See also Anna Murray Vail, “Jane Colden, An Early New York Botanist,” ''Torreya'' 7 (February 1907): 31&ndash;32, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4FUWSUT2 view on Zotero]; Samuel W. Eager, ''An Outline History of Orange County'' (Newburgh, NY: S. T. Callahan, 1846), 245, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ABKWGPA6 view on Zotero].</ref> She gained an understanding of botany from her father, a provincial government administrator, who, in 1742, had begun the first scientific documentation of New York flora using the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus’s new system of binomial classification. <span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>Convinced that women were well suited to excel at botany, and that it was only the arcane manner of scientific writing that discouraged them ([[#Colden_1923_5_29|view text]])<span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>, [[Cadwallader Colden]] gave his daughter “an explication of the principles of Botany in writing . . . don[e] in such manner as I thought would excite her curiosity” ([[#Colden_1923_5_202|view text]]). He translated Linnaeus’s Latin into English, and replaced “all the terms of art” with “common English expressions.”<ref>Cadwallader Colden to John Fothergill, October 18, 1757 in Colden 1923, 5:202&ndash;3; see also 5:29&ndash;31 for a similar account, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> Swiftly mastering the art of botanical description in English, she began cataloging plants in the vicinity of her home [Fig. 1]. In addition to describing their appearance and habits, she gathered information from Indians and “country people” on the plants’ medicinal and domestic uses.<ref>Sara Stidstone Gronim, “What Jane Knew: A Woman Botanist in the Eighteenth Century,” ''Journal of Women’s History'' 19 (Fall 2007): 48, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero]; James Britten, “Jane Colden and the Flora of New York,” ''The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign'' 33 (January 1895): 15, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UVD265KX view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born in New York City, Jane Colden spent most of her life at Coldengham, a 3,000-acre farm established by her father, [[Cadwallader Colden]], in a [[wilderness]] area ten miles west of Newburgh.<ref>For a vivid evocation of life in Coldengham’s “primeval forest” and “untouched wilderness,” see Barbara Hollingsworth, ''Her Garden Was Her Delight'' (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962), 23&ndash;29, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVWRHRP view on Zotero].</ref> She shared an interest in horticulture with her mother, Alice Chrystie Colden (1690&ndash;1762), a keen gardener.<ref>For Jane and Alice Colden’s delight in gardening, see Cadwallader Colden, ''The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden'', 9 vols. (New York: New<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>York Historical Society, 1937) 9:12&ndash;27, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ASR288NI view on Zotero]; Cadwallader Colden, ''The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden'', 9 vols. (New York: New<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>York Historical Society, 1923), 5:72, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero]; Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 43, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero]. See also Anna Murray Vail, “Jane Colden, An Early New York Botanist,” ''Torreya'' 7 (February 1907): 31&ndash;32, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/4FUWSUT2 view on Zotero]; Samuel W. Eager, ''An Outline History of Orange County'' (Newburgh, NY: S. T. Callahan, 1846), 245, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ABKWGPA6 view on Zotero].</ref> She gained an understanding of botany from her father, a provincial government administrator, who, in 1742, had begun the first scientific documentation of New York flora using the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus’s new system of binomial classification. <span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>Convinced that women were well suited to excel at botany, and that it was only the arcane manner of scientific writing that discouraged them ([[#Colden_1923_5_29|view text]])<span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span>, [[Cadwallader Colden]] gave his daughter “an explication of the principles of Botany in writing . . . don[e] in such manner as I thought would excite her curiosity” ([[#Colden_1923_5_202|view text]]). He translated Linnaeus’s Latin into English, and replaced “all the terms of art” with “common English expressions.”<ref>Cadwallader Colden to John Fothergill, October 18, 1757 in Colden 1923, 5:202&ndash;3; see also 5:29&ndash;31 for a similar account, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> Swiftly mastering the art of botanical description in English, she began cataloging plants in the vicinity of her home [Fig. 1]. In addition to describing their appearance and habits, she gathered information from Indians and “country people” on the plants’ medicinal and domestic uses.<ref>Sara Stidstone Gronim, “What Jane Knew: A Woman Botanist in the Eighteenth Century,” ''Journal of Women’s History'' 19 (Fall 2007): 48, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero]; James Britten, “Jane Colden and the Flora of New York,” ''The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign'' 33 (January 1895): 15, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UVD265KX view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Daily access to thousands of acres of wilderness afforded Colden a unique advantage as a botanist, and she located numerous plants that had eluded her father, who complained of “not having sufficient opportunity to repeat my examinations of the plants which I only met casually & did not see many of them more than once.”<span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span> Jane, by contrast, was able to “[fill] up a good deal of idle time agreably to her self & as she is more curious & accurate than I could have been[,] her descriptions are more perfect & I believe few or none exceed them” ([[#Colden_1923_5_217|view text]]).<ref> For a detailed analysis of her progress as a botanist, see Gronim 2007, 40&ndash;41, 49 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero].</ref> In her “curiosity” for botany, Colden’s father saw a means of providing her with meaningful work while advancing the important botanical investigations that his European correspondents had frequently appealed to him to resume.<ref>Colden 1923, 5: 29&ndash;30, 203, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> “She will be extremely pleased in being imployed by you either in sending descriptions or any seeds you shall desire or dryed Specimens of any particular plants you shall mention to me,” he assured the Dutch botanist Johann Friedrich Gronovius (1686&ndash;1762) in 1755, adding: “She has time to apply her self to gratify your curiosity more than I ever had.”<ref>Cadwallader Colden to Johann Friedrich Gronovius, October 1, 1755 in Colden 1923, 5:30&ndash;31; see also 5:139, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Daily access to thousands of acres of wilderness afforded Colden a unique advantage as a botanist, and she located numerous plants that had eluded her father, who complained of “not having sufficient opportunity to repeat my examinations of the plants which I only met casually & did not see many of them more than once.”<span id="Colden_1923_5_cite"></span> Jane, by contrast, was able to “[fill] up a good deal of idle time agreably to her self & as she is more curious & accurate than I could have been[,] her descriptions are more perfect & I believe few or none exceed them” ([[#Colden_1923_5_217|view text]]).<ref> For a detailed analysis of her progress as a botanist, see Gronim 2007, 40&ndash;41, 49 [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DHIUWMPM view on Zotero].</ref> In her “curiosity” for botany, Colden’s father saw a means of providing her with meaningful work while advancing the important botanical investigations that his European correspondents had frequently appealed to him to resume.<ref>Colden 1923, 5: 29&ndash;30, 203, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> “She will be extremely pleased in being imployed by you either in sending descriptions or any seeds you shall desire or dryed Specimens of any particular plants you shall mention to me,” he assured the Dutch botanist Johann Friedrich Gronovius (1686&ndash;1762) in 1755, adding: “She has time to apply her self to gratify your curiosity more than I ever had.”<ref>Cadwallader Colden to Johann Friedrich Gronovius, October 1, 1755 in Colden 1923, 5:30&ndash;31; see also 5:139, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/7DGU88MZ view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
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