Download or read book Thomas Nuttall Correspondence to John Bachman written by Thomas Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from English botanist and zoologist Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) to American naturalist Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874), dated January 17, 1837, his failure to procure an intact specimen of Lepus (Lagomys) princeps (now called Ochotona princeps, or American pika) and expeditions to the Colorado, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers, which yielded no findings of animal species "larger than a mole," he wrote.