Tait, Charles, 1768-1835
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1768 - 1835
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Charles Tait, Letters
Collection — Box: Small Collections 8
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0359
Scope and Contents
Senator, judge, cotton planter and naturalist, he opened his home in Claiborne, Alabama to many explorers and collectors who were passing through. Elected a correspondent of the Academy in 1832, he, several times, attended courses of lectures at the Academy of Natural Sciences, as he did also in New Haven.
Dates:
1829-1835