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Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz
Betty Lotowycz, 1988
Born	May 8, 1916 Manhattan, New York City
Died	April 8, 2016(2016-04-08) (aged 99) Louisville, Colorado
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vassar
Scientific career
Fields	botanist and aviator
Institutions	Plant Fields Arboretum

( – April 8, 2016) was an American botanist.

Biography

Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz was an American botanist who .....

She received a degree in botany from Vassar College in 1938 and then joined the Experiment in International Living, a student-exchange program climbing in the Swiss Alps. She returned to New York and began work at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and as an editorial assistant at Life Magazine.

In 1986 she was a founding member of the Long Island Botanical Society and longtime curator at the Planting Fields Arboretum

Private life

At the beginning of WWII, she learned to fly and joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots for which she received a Congressional Gold Medal at a White House ceremony in 2009. In 1946, Lotowycz married Wladimir “Bill” Lotowycz, and lived with him andtheir young family in Damascus, Syria, for a time before returning to New York.

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.

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.