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Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz | |
|---|---|
 Daguerreotype of John Torrey, 1840 | |
| Born | Jan 1 1917 |
| Died | April 8, 2016 (aged 99) |
| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | botanist and aviator |
| Institutions | Plant Fields Arboretum |
Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz ( – April 8, 2016) was an American botanist.
Biography
Private life
Torrey married Eliza Shaw on 20 April 1824; they had three daughters and a son, Herbert, who became United States Assayer. [1]
Publications
At the age of 88, she co-authored a book, ‘‘Illustrated Field Guide to Shrubs and Woody Vines of Long Island’’ with Barbara Conolly.
Legacy
His name is commemorated in the small coniferous genus Torreya, found in North America, China and Japan. T. taxifolia, a native of Florida, is known as the Florida torreya, Torrey nutmeg, or stinking-cedar; and also in the Torrey pine, Pinus torreyana from southern California. He also first described the carnivorous plant genus Darlingtonia, which he named after a friend.
Torreys Peak in Colorado was also named after him. It is near Grays Peak, named after his pupil and friend Asa Gray.[2]
Notes
- ^ Robbins, C. C. (1968). John Torrey (1796–1873), His Life & Times. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Vol. 95, No. 6 Nov.–Dec. 1968, 515–645. Torrey Botanical Club, New York.
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Vol. 258 (2 ed.). Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey. pp. 142, 302.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Torrey, John". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
Works by or about John Torrey at Wikisource
- Torrey, John. A 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. Albany: Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1843. A two-volume set with color plates, digitized by the New York State Library.
- The John Torrey Papers at the Archive of the New York Botanical Garden (includes correspondence, letters, manuscripts and artwork)
- 1840 Photograph of Torrey @ Harvard University Library
- Mcscience/sandbox at Find a Grave
- Mcscience/sandbox at Find a Grave
Additional publications online
- Botanic contributions relating to the flora of western North America [by] Gray, Engelmann, Torrey [and] Frémont (1843–53)
- A compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac (1826)
- A flora of North America :containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico, arranged according to the natural system by John Torrey and Asa Gray (1838–1843) Two volumes.
- An introduction to the natural system of botany (1831) With John Lindley.
- On the Darlingtonia californica, a new pitcher-plant from northern California by John Torrey (1853)
- Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner (1857–1859) Part 1 / Part 2 Torrey et al.
- 1796 births
- 1873 deaths
- 19th-century botanists
- Columbia University faculty
- United States Military Academy faculty
- American botanists
- Botanists active in North America
- Bryologists
- Pteridologists
- American mycologists
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Torrey Botanical Society members
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences