1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TORREY, JOHN (1796-1873), American botanist, was bom at New York on the i5th of August 1796. When he was 15 or 16 years of age his father received a prison appointment at Greenwich, and there he made the acquaintance of Amos Eaton (i 776-1842), a pioneer of natural history studies in America. He thus learned the elements of botany, as well as something of mineralogy and chemistry. In 1815 he began the study of medicine, qualifying in 1818. In the following year he issued his Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneousl…
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