Plants in Action: A Laboratory manual of Plant Physiology
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Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
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A Flora Of North America: Containing Abridged Descriptions Of All The Known Indigenous And Naturalized Plants Growing North Of Mexico
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Flora of the State of New-York, Comprising Full Descriptions of All the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Hitherto Discovered in the State with Remarks on Their Economical and Medicinal Properties. Two Volumes.
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1843. 2 vols.4, xii, 484; 4, 572 pp. Very Good, with one partly loose spine strip as noted below. See scans. Illlustrated with a total of 162 black and white lithographed plates, 72 of those in volume one and 90 in volume 2. Steel engraved general title. 11 1/2" x 9", original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. A scarce and hefty two-volume botanical opus , issued as part of the series "Natural History of New York"; these comprise volumes 12 and 12 in that series. Volume 2 spine strip loose at rear joint; both volumes with top spine end wear, some chips, corners showing; moderate foxing within, as usual limited to the first few and last few pages. The natural history series was authorized in 1836, and Torrey was placed in charge of the botanical portion of it shortly thereafter, and spent the intervening years between that time and the publication of this issue in 1843 accumulating, with the help of many dozens of expert associates, the information herein. Original drawings for the lithographed plates were done by Miss Agnes Mitchell (early portion) and Miss Elizabeth Pooley (the rest). See scans. Ltokshf2
Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States: Or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of All the Plants Hither to Discovered in the United States North of Virginia, Volume 1
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Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River
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A Catalogue of Plants, Growing Spontaneously Within Thirty Miles of the City of New-York (Classic Reprint)
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John Torrey was an American botanist, chemist, and physician.
Background
Torrey was born on August 15, 1796 in New York City, the second child of Capt. William and Margaret (née Nichols) Torrey.
His earliest American ancestor, Capt. William Torrey of the parish of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, emigrated to America in 1640 and settled in Weymouth, Massachussets His father and grandfather were soldiers of the Revolution serving in the vicinity of New York and settled there at its close. His father, Capt. William Torrey, one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, married Margaret Nichols. John was the second of their ten children. About 1810 William Torrey was appointed fiscal agent of the state prison at Greenwich (later Greenwich Village). Here came--imprisoned for debt, it is said--Amos Eaton, enthusiast in the natural sciences; he took a fancy to John and inspired him with an interest in science that gave direction to his life work.
Education
At Greenwich Village, New York, he was tutored by Amos Eaton, then a prisoner and later a pioneer of natural history studies in America. He thus learned the elements of botany, as well as something of mineralogy and chemistry.
He was one of the group of young men at the College of Physicians and Surgeons who, under the stimulating leadership of their professor, Samuel Latham Mitchill, in February 1817 established the Lyceum of Natural History, forerunner of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1818, Torrey had received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physician and Surgeons.
Career
On May 5 a committee of three was appointed to prepare a catalogue of the plants growing near New York, and on December 22, 1817, A Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously Within Thirty Miles of the City of New York (1819) was presented to the Lyceum. Most of the work is shown to have been done by Torrey, and it has always been called "Torrey's Catalogue. "
In 1818, Torrey had begun the practice of his profession in his native city, but his real interests lay in other fields. During the next few years he gave special attention to the plants of the northeastern United States, and his published scientific papers and correspondence soon spread his fame. At about this time began the long series of government explorations of the West. Members of these expeditions, as a part of their official duties, collected plants, and nearly all of these, for many years, were turned over to Torrey for study and report. The thoroughness of his pioneer work upon these collections has been amply demonstrated by the studies of later generations of botanists. His first publications in this field were his report on the plants collected by David Bates Douglass near the source of the Mississippi in 1820 (American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. IV, no. 1, 1821) and his reports on the collection made by Edwin James in 1820 (Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, vol. I, nos. 1, 2, 1823; vol. II, nos. 4-5, 1826; nos. 6, 7-8, 1827).
Late in 1823 was issued the first part of the first book bearing Torrey's name as sole author, A Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States. Two other parts completed the first volume, but the preparation of an intended second volume was prevented by the pressure of other demands upon his time, and by his growing dissatisfaction with the Linnean artificial system of classification then in general use. A small work, however, issued in 1826 under the title, A Compendium of the Flora of the Northern and Middle States, supplied in concise form descriptions not only of the plants actually treated in the first volume, but of those intended for inclusion in the projected second one.
In 1824 Torrey went to live at West Point, where he had been appointed professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology in the United States Military Academy. Three years later he returned to New York City as a professor of chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; in this position he was active until 1855, and he continued as professor emeritus for the remainder of his life.
In 1830 he accepted the professorship of chemistry and natural history at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), which he held concurrently with his professorship in New York for nearly twenty-five years. It was in 1834 that Asa Gray came from western New York to New York City, where he was librarian of the Lyceum and in charge of its buildings and collections for a year, and studied plants with Torrey. The latter was so impressed with the younger man's ability that he invited him to become his associate in the preparation of a work on the Flora of North America, of which seven parts, comprising all of one volume and most of another, appeared from 1838 to 1843.
Meanwhile Torrey's work upon this publication was more or less hampered by his acceptance in 1836 of an appointment as state botanist, resulting in the preparation of a Flora of the State of New York (2 vols. , 1843). The necessity of studying the western plant collections, pouring in in increasing numbers every year, finally caused the abandonment of Torrey and Gray's Flora, but Torrey continued active botanical study and publication. He reported on the plant collections of Joseph Nicholas Nicollet's explorations of 1836-39, Frémont's first expedition of 1842 and his second of 1843-44; W. H. Emory's military reconnaissance of 1846-47; the Mexican Boundary survey of 1848-54; Howard Stansbury's exploration of the Great Salt Lake region in 1849-50; Lorenzo Sitgreaves' expedition down the Zuñi and Colorado rivers in 1851; R. B. Marcy's exploration of the Red River in 1852; various expeditions connected with the Pacific Railroad surveys of 1853-55, including those of E. G. Beckwith, J. W. Gunnison, John Pope, A. W. Whipple, R. S. Williamson, and J. G. Parke; and J. C. Ives's exploration of the Colorado in 1857-58. All of these appeared in the official reports of the expeditions.
In spite of these labors he did not neglect monographic work. His monograph of the Cyperaceae appeared as early as 1836; his revision of the Eriogoneae, in collaboration with Gray, as late as 1870. And throughout his career he was building up his botanical library and herbarium until they became among the most valuable in America; these he transferred to Columbia College about 1860, and in 1899 Columbia deposited them with the newly established New York Botanical Garden. Many of the specimens are accompanied by Torrey's pencil sketches illustrating their structure as shown by his careful dissections.
When the Assay Office was established in New York in 1853, Torrey accepted an appointment as United States assayer, resigning from the Princeton faculty in 1854, and retiring from active work as a professor at Columbia. He continued in this position for the remaining twenty years of his life.
Much of his time, however, continued to be devoted to botanical study. His position as assayer opened the way for occasional travel. He visited California, by way of Panama, in 1865, on a confidential mission for the Treasury Department and was able to see for the first time in their natural surroundings various plants that he had made known to science by herbarium study many years before. He spent part of the winter of 1871-72 in Florida, and the next summer visited California for the second time. On his way east he ascended Torrey's Peak in Colorado, which had been named in his honor several years previously.
Within a year after his return to New York he suffered an attack of pleurisy, from the effects of which he never recovered, and a few weeks later, in his seventy-seventh year, he died.
In 1839 Torrey was elected a foreign member of the Linnean Society of London, and in 1841 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1863 he was one of the corporate members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Personality
No account of Torrey would be complete without some reference to his remarkable personality, which endeared him to all who knew him. It was characterized by integrity, sagacity, and studiousness, but above all by a certain ingenuousness and genial friendliness, which increased with age.
Connections
Torrey married Eliza Shaw on 20 April 1824; they had three daughters and a son, Herbert, who became United States Assayer.