Letters to the Editor 01.18.24
War and Peace
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David Schmalz here with the Weekly’s third installment of letters by William H. Brewer, a botanist and field leader of California’s first geological survey. Brewer wrote to his brother back
A report by Khalil Gibran Muhammad for The New York Times. Domino Sugar’s Chalmette Refinery in Arabi, La., sits on the edge of the mighty Mississippi River, about five miles east by way of the river’s bend from the French Quarter, and less than a mile down from the Lower Ninth Ward, where Hurricane Katrina and the…
David Schmalz here. William H. Brewer, from late 1860 to 1864, served as the botanist of the California Geological Survey led by Josiah D. Whitney, and over the course of