Torrey, John, 1796-1873
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Zaccheus Collins was a merchant and botanist.
John Torrey was a botanist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1835.
U. S. physician and botanist.
Botanist, chemist, and educator.
Parker Cleaveland worked as a mineralogist and geologist.
John Torrey was an American botanist. He was born in New York in 1796. In 1817, he was a founding member of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. In 1836 he became botanist to the State of New York and in 1853 he became the Chief Assayer to the United States Assay Office. He is the author of Flora of the northern and middle sections of the United States (1924).
John Torrey, the first professional botanist in the United States, specialized in North American flora and developed an innovative classification system known as the "natural system." He worked at New York University from 1832 as a professor of chemistry and botany.
John Torrey (1796-1873) was one of the greatest figures in American botanical history. He led botanists in the adoption of the natural system of classification. His extensive herbarium became the foundation of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Appointed botanist for the Geological Survey of the State of New York in 1836, he published the first compete flora of the state in addition to preparing descriptions of plants collected during surveys for the Pacific railroad routes, the Mexican boundary survey and many other botanical expeditions.
John Torrey (1796-1873) was a physician, botanist, chemist, and geologist. He was born August 15, 1796, in New York. Torrey co-founded the New York Lyceum of Natural History (now the New York Academy of Science) in 1817. Starting out as a medical doctor, Torrey entered the army as a surgeon in 1824 and became a professor of chemistry and geology at West Point military academy. He taught botany, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy in professorial positions at Columbia University and University of the City of New York. Torrey was appointed botanist of the state of New York in 1836. Torrey published several works including: A Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York (1917), Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States (1824), and Flora of the State of New York (1843). He published portions of Flora of North America with Asa Gray, who was then a student.
John Torrey (1796-1873) was one of the greatest figures in American botanical history. He led botanists in the adoption of the natural system of classification. His extensive herbarium formed the basis of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Appointed botanist of for the Geological Survey of the State of New York in 1836, he published the first complete flora of the state in addition to preparing descriptions for the plants collected during surveys for the Pacific railroad routes and the Mexican boundary survey and many other botanical expeditions.
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