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Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz
Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz
	Betty Lotowycz, 1988
Born	Jan 1 1917; Manhattan, New York City
Died	April 8, 2016 (aged 99); Boulder, Colorado
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vassar
	Scientific career
Fields	botanist and aviator
Institutions	Plant Fields Arboretum

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Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz ( – April 8, 2016) was an American botanist.

Biography

Private life

Lotowycz married Wladimir “Bill” Lotowycz in 1946, and lived with him and two children in Damascus, Syria, ^[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

^ "Aviation pioneer Grace 'Betty' Lotowycz dies". Newsday. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
^ 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.

[Robbins-1] "Aviation pioneer Grace 'Betty' Lotowycz dies". Newsday. Retrieved 2016-06-15.

[peaks-2] 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.

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