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See also:TORREY, See also:JOHN (1796—1873) , See also:American botanist, was See also:born at New See also:York on the 15th of See also:August 1796. When he was 15 or 16 years of See also:age his See also:father received a See also:prison See also:appointment at See also:Greenwich, and there he made the acquaintance of See also:Amos See also:Eaton (1776—1842), a See also:pioneer of natural See also:history studies in See also:America. He thus learned the elements of See also:botany, as well as something of See also:mineralogy and See also:chemistry. In 1815 he began the study of See also:medicine, qualifying in 1818. In the following See also:year he issued his See also:Catalogue of See also:Plants growing spontaneously within See also:Thirty See also:Miles of the See also:City of New York, and in 1824 he issued the first and only See also:volume of his See also:Flora of the See also:Northern and See also:Middle States. In the same year he obtained the See also:chair of chemistry and See also:geology at See also:West Point military See also:academy, and three years later the professorship of chemistry and botany in the See also:College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In 1836 he was appointed botanist to the See also:state of New York and produced his Flora of that state in 1843; while from 1838 to 1843 he carried on the publication of the earlier portions of Flora of See also:North America, with the assistance of his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, See also:Asa See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray. From 1853 he was See also:chief assayer to the See also:United States assay See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but he continued to take an See also:interest in botanical teaching until his See also:death at New York on the loth of See also:March 1873. He made over his valuable See also:herbarium and botanical library to See also:Columbia College in 186o, and he was the first See also:president of the Torrey Botanical See also:Club in 1873. His name is commemorated in the small coniferous genus Torreya, found in North America and in See also:China and See also:Japan. T. taxifolia, a native of See also:Florida, is known as the Torrey See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree or savin, and also as the stinking See also:cedar.
TORREY, See also:REUBEN See also:ARCHER (1856— ), American evangelist, was born in See also:Hoboken, New See also:Jersey, on the 28th of See also:January 1856. He graduated at Yale University in 1875 and at the Yale Divinity School in 1878. ` He became a Congregational See also:minister in 1878, studied See also:theology at See also:Leipzig and Erlanger in 1882—1883,', joined D. L. See also:Moody in his evangelistic See also:work in See also:Chicago in 1889, and became pastor of the Chicago See also:Avenue See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in 1894 and afterwards See also:superintendent of the Moody See also:Bible See also:Institute of Chicago. In 1902—1903 he preached in nearly every See also:part of the See also:English-speaking See also:world, and with See also:Charles McCallon See also:Alexander (b. 1867) conducted revival services in See also:Great See also:Britain in 1903—1905; Torrey conducted a similar See also:campaign in American and See also:Canadian cities in 1906—1907.
End of Article: TORREY, JOHN (1796—1873)
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