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	John Torrey Papers
		John Torrey was born in New York on August 15, 1796.
		John Torrey was a member of a number of scientific societies in America and Europe.
		The artwork from Torrey's Plants of New York for the Cabinet at Albany and Genera of Fungi were drawn by John Torrey.
	sciweb.nybg.org /Science2/libr/finding_guide/torrey.asp (1232 words)

	John Torrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Torrey was born on August 15,1796 in New York.
		Torrey was appointed New York State Botanist in 1836 and consequently compiled the flora of the state, which was published in 1843 and largest single work of its time.
		John Torrey was a member of many scientific societies in America, as well as Europe.
	pss.uvm.edu /ppp/torrey.html (386 words)

	John Torrey - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JOHN TORREY (1796-1873), American botanist, was born at New York on the 15th 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 (1776-1842), a pioneer of natural history studies in America.
		From 1853 he was chief assayer to the United States assay office, but he continued to take an interest in botanical teaching until his death at New York on the 10th of March 1873.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Torrey (335 words)

	HIKING TORREY TURTLE ROCK PARK
		John Torrey is buried at the cemetery at the end of Elm Street on the left side (the Presbyterian side).
		Torrey liked to host a lot of parties at the church but was not really a church going man nor was his family, or at least not in Stirling.
		Torrey Botanical Society historian Dr. Lawrence Crockett (Star-Ledger, April 19, 1987) remarked that he had the gut feeling that Herbert was somewhat jealous of the relationship of his father with the younger Asa Gray.
	nynjctbotany.org /njnbtofc/turtlerk.html (3609 words)

	John Torrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist.
		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, a pioneer of natural history studies in America.
		Torrey made over his valuable herbarium and botanical library to Columbia College in 1860, and he was the first president of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1873.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Torrey (367 words)

	Memorial Minute (Faculty of Arts and Sciences): John Torrey
		John Torrey's contributions to science were recognized by many invitations to speak and by his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962, to the Presidency of the Society for Developmental Biology in 1963, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
		Upon Professor Zimmermann's untimely death in 1984, John Torrey was appointed Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry and Director of the Harvard Forest.
		John Torrey, the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research and the National Science Foundation all contributed to a major strengthening of the Forest.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/11.07/MemorialMinute(.html (14295 words)

	Torrey Ut
		Torrey is the executive director of the Stanley Foundation, which funds mental-illness research.
		Torreys Peak is a mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
		Torreys Peak is located along the Continental Divide, as well as the division between Clear Creek County and Summit County.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/89/torrey-ut.html (1523 words)

	CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE OF JOHN TORREY
		John Torrey attended the public schools and was for a year at a school in Boston.
		Torrey's 1832 A Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States followed by his Compendium treated all of the vascular plants north of the Potomac River.
		Torrey and Gray realized the importance of collectors exploring remote regions of North America, and if they were to account for its plants, skilled botanists had to be in the field whenever possible.
	nynjctbotany.org /tbshist/earlylif.html (4189 words)

	History
		Torrey was one of the leading botanists of his time.
		With the advent of W.W.II, the Army leased 750 acres of Torrey Pines Mesa from the City of San Diego to be used for training purposes.
		The Association was, and still is, involved in conservation of the Torrey pine and in serving as watchdogs of the area.
	www.torreypine.org /history/history.html (1894 words)

	Torrey "Hilltop" Mansion
		John Torrey was a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.
		John Torrey's only son, Herbert Gray Torrey (1838-1915) and his wife Louisa bought "Hilltop" as the family homestead in 1880, though the family had already been living in the home for some time.
		Herbert Torrey was well-known as a mineralogist and metallurgist.
	synergy-emusic.com /torrey.htm (667 words)

	Torrey, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Torrey, John (1796-1873), pioneer American botanist, was professor of chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York from 1827 to 1855 and concurrently professor of chemistry and natural history at Princeton from 1830 to 1854.
		Torrey had a genial and unselfish character, and was the friend and helper of every young American botanist of his time.
		Torrey climbed this peak for the first time when he was seventy-six, and there gathered alpine plants which he had himself named fifty years before when botanical study of the Colorado Rocky Mountains was first begun.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/torrey_john.html (401 words)

	Parry Grove
		He sent some plants he had collected to John Torrey, MD Torrey was professor of botany at Princeton and a fellow P and S grad.
		Torrey pines are not long-lived trees but they are tough.
		Most botanists think that the Torrey pine is a survivor, maybe of a vast forest, maybe of a small one.
	www.torreypine.org /parks/parry-grove.html (1025 words)

	John Muir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Muir John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was an environmentalist, naturalist, traveler, writer, and scientist.
		John Muir appears on the California quarter The John Muir Trail, the John Muir Wilderness, the Muir Woods National Monument, John Muir College (a residential College of the University of California, San Diego), and John Muir Country Park in Dunbar are named in his honour.
		An image of John Muir, with the California Condor and Half Dome, appears on the California state quarter which was released in 2005.
	john-muir.iqnaut.net (1623 words)

	Torrey, John
		John Torrey was the preeminent botanist in the United States during the nineteenth century.
		Torrey became the central figure in classifying the thousands of new plants discovered by explorers during the period of westward expansion, and he wrote numerous scientific monographs on the flora of the American West.
		Torrey introduced to the United States the natural system of classification developed by his European contemporaries Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu and Augustin de Candolle, overthrowing the sexual system of classification of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus.
	www.biologyreference.com /Ta-Va/Torrey-John.html (236 words)

	Descendants - pafg106.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John TORREY (Bethiah BASS, Samuel BASS, Ruth ALDEN, John) was born on 14 Aug 1734 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States.
		John TORREY was born about 1775 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States.
		John BEAL was born on 8 Jul 1759 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA, United States.
	www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg106.htm (1174 words)

	John Torrey
		In 1817 he became one of the founders of the New York lyceum of natural history (now the New York academy of science), and one of his first contributions to this body is a "Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York" (Albany, 1819).
		The Torreva taxifolia, an ornamental shade-tree in the southern states, was named in his honor, and the Torreya Californica of California, the Torreya nucifera of Japan, and the Torreya grandis of northern China, bear his name.
		The association of botanists that originally met at his residence were chartered as the Torrey botanical club, and he was its first president.
	www.famousamericans.net /johntorrey (953 words)

	TorreyJF
		Torrey moved to Texas, probably in 1838, established himself in Houston, and, along with his brothers, David Kilburn and Thomas Stebbins Torrey, started a merchandising firm called John F. Torrey and Brothers, which dealt extensively in the Indian trade from 1838 to 1848.
		Torrey and a man named Nugent, a correspondent for the New York Herald, left Texas in September 1849 to observe a peace talk between Texas Ranger captain John Coffee Hays and a group of Indians some distance west of El Paso.
		Torrey and his two partners, Hermann A. and Henry Runge, formed the Comal Manufacturing Company, and Torrey converted the upper floors of the mill to a cotton cloth factory, which began operation in October 1865.
	www.granburydepot.org /z/biog/TorreyJF.htm (655 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		John Frink Torrey, trader and manufacturer, was born in Ashford, Connecticut, on April 14, 1817, the son of Jacob N. and Laura (Kilburn) Torrey.
		Torrey continued on to California, but he was back in New Braunfels by October 1850, when he began what may have been the first factory in the state by adding a door, sash, and blind factory to the already existing mill.
		Torrey later left New Braunfels and went to Hood County, where he had a public land grant that he had located in 1843 at Comanche Peak.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/TT/fto22.html (697 words)

	Chrono-Biographical Sketch: John Torrey
		Though Torrey began his professional career as a doctor, he soon allowed himself to be increasingly diverted by the natural sciences, especially botanical subjects.
		Torrey was one of the fathers of American botany, giving attention both to the philosophy of classification and the floristic description of collections of specimens arriving from various points to the west.
		Torrey's personal herbarium was enormous; he eventually donated it to Columbia College (it became the nucleus for the New York Botanical Garden's collection).
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/chronob/TORR1796.htm (322 words)

	Genealogy Data Page 5 (Notes Pages)
		On the bottom of the page of the Torrey family Bible where this was found, his great granddaughter wrote, "Where shall we find such devoted patriotism now[?]" This was evidently written just before the outbreak of the Civil War, so she soon had her answer.
		Note: Lieutenant John Torrey was a tanner and trader and the origin of the military title is unknown, but as it appears in a number of official documents as well as on his gravestone, it is certainly legitimate.
		Note: The origins of John Bowditch are not now known, although there is a good possibility that he was related to the Bowditches who settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and whose descendant, Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), is the author of the New American Practical Navigator, known simply as "Bowditch" to generations of sailors the world over.
	www.johnsteelegordon.com /genealogy/n_4.html (1592 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Torrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Torrey, John 1796-1873, American botanist and chemist, b.
		Morse, John Torrey 1840-1937, American lawyer and biographer, b.
		Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey won't run for third term.(Politics)(The decision is expected to result in a wide-open race this year for a successor)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Torrey (747 words)

	Raymond Hezekiah Torrey
		Torrey was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, in 1880.
		Torrey was not bound to his typewriter and desk.
		Torrey could write with the same authority and enthusiasm about short-billed marsh wrens as about "a new Silurian marine fossil found atop Kittatinny Ridge." He could identify at least 700 plants.
	www.rpts.tamu.edu /pugsley/Torrey.htm (1495 words)

	Stanton. American Scientific Exploration, 1845-1849
		Specialists reporting on the collections were James Hall on geology and paleontology; T.A. Conrad on fossils; John Torrey, Chester Dewey (Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massachusetts, 1837), D.C. Eaton (Vermont Geological Survey, 1844), and George Engelmann on botany; Spencer F. Baird on mammals, birds, and (with Robert Kennicott) reptiles; and Charles Girard on fish.
		Torrey recommended Schott's appointment to the survey, on which he headed one of the surveying parties, and made large botanical collections and the sketches of landscapes that accompanied Michler's report.
		The John L. LeConte Papers have Baird letters to John E. LeConte and to the latter's son (Baird's friend "Johnny") on the publications and insect collections of both this expedition and the Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853).
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/stanton/4549.htm (5680 words)

	Asa Gray - People - John Muir Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Muir traveled with Sir Joseph Hooker, Asa Gray, and John Bidwell around the Lassen Peak and the Mt. Shasta region botanizing in the summer of 1877.
		A letter from John Muir to Asa Gray dated January 13, 1878 describes the Yellow and Jeffrey Pines.
		John Torrey and Asa Gray's Flora of North America (1838 - 1843) New York: Wiley & Putnam in 2 volumes.
	www.sierraclub.org /John_Muir_exhibit/people/gray.html (154 words)

	Genealogy Data Page 1 (Notes Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In New Jersey, he was the principal developer of Lakehurst, the land of which had been given to Adeline Torrey by her father as a wedding present, and of the surrounding town of Manchester.
		A library table, bought by Adeline Torrey, probably at the time of her marriage, is in the possession of John Steele Gordon.
		An article on Torrey is in the Dictionary of American Biography and a biography of him, John Torrey: A Story of American Botany, by Andrew Denny Rodgers III, was published in 1942.
	www.johnsteelegordon.com /genealogy/n_0.html (3523 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Torrey (Horticulture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Torrey 1796–1873, American botanist and chemist, b.
		His herbarium was presented (1860) to Columbia, and in 1899 it was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden.
		He was a founder of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the Torrey Botanical Club.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Torrey-J.html (250 words)

	Picture History - John Torrey (1796-1873)
		John Torrey was a physician, botanist and chemist.
		He was the founder of the Torrey Botanical Society, professor of botany, and president of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.
		Torrey's two-volume "Flora of the State of New York" (1843) was internationally acclaimed.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/20621/mcms.html (142 words)

	JSTOR: Torrey Botanical Society
		The Torrey Botanical Society is an organization of people interested in plant life, including professional and amateur botanists, students, and those who just like to go out into the country and study nature.
		The society began informally in the 1860's under the aegis and inspiration of Dr. John Torrey, then professor of botany at Columbia College, and claims to be the oldest botanical society in America.
		The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (until 1997 The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club), the oldest botanical journal in the Americas, has as its primary goal the dissemination of scientific knowledge about plants (in the broad sense of both plants and fungi).
	www.jstor.org /journals/tbs.html (294 words)

	Home Mortgages with John Torrey of Home Funding Finders
		John is working for Home Funding Finders, a premier New York State Mortgage Broker.
		John explained why having your paper work in order helps to speed up the loan process.
		John also gave helpful tips to help you get a loan at a lower interest rate, and how to improve your credit score.
	www.wnyinsurance-quote.com /html/home_mortgages_with_john_torre.html (110 words)

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