Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 9American Academy of Arts and Sciences., 1874 |
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Page 272 - Figures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured," and forms an imperial octavo volume, with one hundred and twenty-nine copperplates, published in 1864.
Page 227 - NOTICE.— With the view of diminishing the chances of Collision, the Steamers of this Line take a specified course for all seasons of the year. On the Outward Passage from Queenstown to New York or Boston, crossing the Meridian of 50 at 43 Lat., or nothing to the North of 43.
Page 262 - Hosack were professors of scientific repute; he took his medical degree in 1818; opened an office in his native city, and engaged in the practice of medicine with moderate success, turning the while his abundant leisure to scientific pursuits, especially to botany. In 1817, while yet a medical student, he reported to the Lyceum of Natural History — of which he was one of the founders — his Catalogue of the Plants growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the city of New York...
Page 260 - of American botanists, and was at his death the oldest, with the exception of the venerable Ex-President of the American Academy (Dr. Bigelow), who entered the botanical field several years earlier, but left it to gather the highest honors and more lucrative rewards of the medical profession, about the time when Dr. Torrey determined to devote his life to scientific pursuits. The latter was of an old New England stock, being, it is thought, a descendant of William Torrey, who emigrated from Combe...
Page 35 - Introduction. — In the American Journal of Science (VII. 55, 1824), TH "Webb described a mineral from Millbury, near "Worcester, Mass., •which has since been a mineralogical curiosity on account of its singular reaction when heated. The mineral consists of " small foliated scales distributed through a steatitic base.
Page 287 - ... of his opinions, might look for hard blows in return. But it would have been worth far more, even to myself, than any polemical success, to have known with certainty in what manner he would have met the objections raised in the present volume.
Page 263 - Compendium," a pocket volume for the field, containing brief characters of the species which were to have been described in the second volume, along with an abridgment of the contents of the first, was issued in 1826. Moreover, long before Dr. Torrey could find time to go on with the work, he foresaw that the natural system was not much longer to remain, here and in England, an esoteric doctrine, confined to profound botanists, but was destined to come into general use and to change the character...
Page 270 - Arts, in the year 1842. The observations which he continued to make were communicated to his correspondents and friends, the authors of the Flora of North America, then in progress. As soon as the flowering plants of his district had ceased to afford him novelty, he turned to the Mosses, in which he found abundant scientific occupation, of a kind well suited to his bent for patient and close observation, scrupulous accuracy, and nice discrimination. His first publication in his chosen department,...
Page 265 - The remaining half of the first volume appeared in June, 1840. The first part of the second volume followed in 1841 ; the second in the spring of 1842 ; and in February, 1843, came the third and the last ; for Dr. Torrey's associate was now also immersed in professorial duties, and in the consequent preparation of the works and collections which were necessary to their prosecution. From that time to the present the scientific exploration of the vast interior of the continent has been actively carried...
Page 265 - California were accordingly annexed botanically before they became so politically. While the field of botanical operations was thus enlarging, the time which could be devoted to it was restricted. In addition to his chair in the Medical College, Dr. Torrey had felt obliged to accept a similar one at Princeton College, and to all was now added, as we have seen, the onerous post of State Botanist It was in the year 1836 or 1837 that he invited the writer of this notice — then pursuing botanical studies...