Catalogue of Plants Collected in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona: With Descriptions of Those Not Contained in Gray's Manual of the ... of the Fortieth Parallel (Classic Reprint)
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The volume comprises a number of reports upon collections of the years 1871 to 1876, inclusive, made by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, surgeon and botanist to the Expeditions of 1873 - 4 - 5, and by eminent specialists.
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Catalogue Of Trees And Shrubs Native Of And Introduced In The Horticultural Gardens Adjacent To Horticultural Hall In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia...
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Catalogue Of Trees And Shrubs Native Of And Introduced In The Horticultural Gardens Adjacent To Horticultural Hall In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Joseph T. Rothrock
s.n., 1880
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In this estimate I have not included those portions of the coal fields on which neither farms nor forests are found, but which already present so desolate an appearance as to suggest the inquiry: What is to happen there when the mining ceases?
My distinct recollection extends back at least sixty years. The railroads were just opening the way to the markets and, as a consequence, lumbering began on a scale previously unknown. What the rafts had carried out of the woods was as a drop in the bucket in comparison with what the railroads were to take out to the centers of demand.
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Vacation Cruising In Chesapeake And Delaware Bay (1884)
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Statement Of Work Done By The Pennsylvania Department Of Forestry, During 1901 And 1902: Together With Some Suggestions Concerning The Future Policy ... Upon Subjects Connected With Forestry...
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Statement Of Work Done By The Pennsylvania Department Of Forestry, During 1901 And 1902: Together With Some Suggestions Concerning The Future Policy Of The Department, And Also Brief Papers Upon Subjects Connected With Forestry
Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forests and Waters, Joseph T. Rothrock
W. S. Ray, State printer, 1902
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As the ideal of perfect health is neither that of high physical nor mental Vigor alone, but a combination of the two, attention will be given to the cultivation of both.
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Reports Upon the Botanical Collections Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, During the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875
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Joseph Trimble Rothrock was an American physician, botanist, and forester. He was the first forestry commissioner to lead the newly formed Division of Forestry in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
Background
Joseph Trimble Rothrock was born in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Dr. Abraham and Phoebe Brinton (Trimble) Rothrock and a descendant of Abraham Rothrock who emigrated from the Palatinate to Berks County, Pa. , early in the eighteenth century.
Education
Prepared in the village school, Freeland Seminary (now Ursinus College), and Academia, a preparatory school in Juniata County, Joseph entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard in 1860. Meanwhile a period spent for the sake of his health as axeman on the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad had given him a keen interest in botany and forestry, and through the kindly interest of William Darlington, a distant kinsman, he was accepted by Asa Gray, a renowned botanist at Harvard University, as a special student. Rothrock received a bachelor of science in botany from Harvard in 1862 (possibly 1864). In 1867 he received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1880, he spent nine months as a student at the University of Strassburg.
Career
At the outbreak of the Civil War Rothrock enlisted in in the Union Army, and on July 1, 1863, was commissioned captain, 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, where he was wounded and honorably discharged on June 6, 1864. The following winter he spent at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but in 1865-66, under appointment from the Smithsonian Institution, he accompanied the exploring expedition to British Columbia and Alaska headed by Robert Kennicott and Maj. Frank Pope.
His plant collections were lost in the Fraser River, but his "Sketch of the Flora of Alaska" was published in the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1867. He became professor of botany at the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College. In 1869 he moved to Wilkes-Barre, where he established a medical practice and was instrumental in founding the Wilkes-Barre Hospital, but hard work again undermined his health, and in 1873 he became botanist and surgeon to the government survey in Colorado, New Mexico, and California, under Lieut. G. N. Wheeler. His report (United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, vol. VI, 1878), enumerated and described 1, 168 species belonging to 637 genera, representing 104 natural orders of plants.
After a year as principal of a young ladies' academy in Wilkes-Barre, he accepted a post at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of botany from 1877 to 1904. In 1877, he was appointed Michaux lecturer on forestry by the American Philosophical Society. In 1880, he spent some time in Germany and he was deeply impressed by the German forest-conservation policies. He came home dedicated to the task of arousing public opinion to the need of protecting the forests. He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and its president in 1886.
In 1893, Governor Pattison appointed him to a commission to study the forests of Pennsylvania; and he was the author of its report. Following the submission of this document to the legislature in March 1895 the division of forestry in the state department of agriculture was created, with Rothrock as its first commissioner, and when in 1901 a separate department of forestry was created, he was again the first commissioner. This post he held until 1904, and remained on the advisory board after his retirement.
Some of Rothrock's other interests are suggested by his book, Vacation Cruising in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays (1884). In 1880 he cruised to the Bahamas and the West Indies in his yacht White Cap, collecting valuable scientific material for the University. As early as 1876, he began to take delicate boys to the woods for camp life, and in time founded the School of Physical Culture in Luzerne County, Pa. In 1902, he opened an informal camp for tubercular patients on the State Forest Reserve near Mount Alto; it proved successful and in 1907 was put under the newly created state department of health. He died at his home in West Chester, Pa. .
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Rothrock wrote of himself in an autobiographical sketch, "I am an Episcopalian, and politically a Republican when my conscience will endure it" (Kelly, post, p. 213).
Personality
His associates describe him as a man small in stature, abounding in energy, and with great charm of manner.
Connections
Rothrock married, May 27, 1868, Martha E. May, daughter of Addison and Elizabeth Shafer May, and they had five children.