Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature

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Southworth Company, 1914 - 215 pàgines
This book contains brief biographies, portraits and pictures of the specimens that the botanists were noted for. The botanists discussed range from Joseph Trimble Rothrock, an American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania to Charles Wilkins Short, a Kentuckian who discovered several species of plants and has six species of plants named after him, who also practiced medicine and taught materia medica.
 

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Pàgina 190 - He then entered the medical department of the University of New York, from which he graduated in 1860.
Pàgina 49 - I am but a ploughman) and being weary I ran under the shade of a tree to repose myself. I cast my eyes on a daisy, I plucked it mechanically and viewed it with more curiosity than common country farmers are wont to do; and observed therein very many distinct parts, some perpendicular, some horizontal. What a shame...
Pàgina 141 - The ground was clear, therefore, when, thirty or forty years ago, a new and remarkable evergreen tree was discovered in our own Southern States, which it was at once determined should bear Dr. Torrey's name. More recently a congener was found in the noble forests of California. Another species had already been recognized in Japan, and lately a fourth in the mountains of Northern China. All four of them have been introduced, and are greatly prized as ornamental trees in Europe. So that, all round...
Pàgina 20 - He was spellbound to the spot where he pined to death, and was metamorphosed by the gods into the flower that now bears his name. When the Naiads had...
Pàgina 11 - There is religion in a flower ; Its still small voice is as the voice of conscience. . Mountains and oceans, planets, suns, and systems, Bear not the impress of Almighty power In characters more legible than those Which he has written on the tiniest flower, Whose light bell bends beneath the dew-drop's weight.
Pàgina 123 - Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of New England relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a serpent, seen near Cape Ann...
Pàgina 112 - Marcellus. Bring me handfuls of lilies, that I may strew the grave with their dazzling hues, and crown, if only with these gifts, my young descendant's shade, and perform the vain service of sorrow.
Pàgina 68 - If seas and mountains can keep us asunder here, yet surely the Father of Wisdom and Science will take away that veil and these obstacles when this curtain of mortality drops; and probably I may find myself on the skirts of a meadow where Linnaeus is explaining the wonders of a new world to legions of white candid spirits glorifying their Maker for the amazing enlargement of their mental faculties.
Pàgina 89 - Observations on some parts of Natural History, to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of An ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America.
Pàgina 190 - From this he entered the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York, in 1851.

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