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knowledge, although his writings are expansive and dive into the 

 invisible anatomy of plants. It is that putting off school that is 

 now impeding the Exploring Expedition, as it is impeding the 

 rapid progress of knowledge in all the sciences but times bring on 

 the due changes and improvements in spite of all delays. As 

 usual your old friend/ &c. C. S. Rafinesque. 



Such, in brief was the botanical lifework of the man whose 

 memory we meet to honor. When we consider that his profession 

 was medicine, and his livelihood chemistry, he having lectured on 

 that* science at West Point, New York and Princeton during the 

 period of his greatest botanical activity, as well as occupying the 

 post of United States assayer in New York, we can but wonder 

 that he could have accomplished so much. 



His life and works have been the principal inspiration which 

 has enabled his associates and successors to uphold the cause of 

 botany in New York, and to that inspiration may be referred the 

 long and honorable record of the Club which bears his name, and 

 through it, by the cooperation of civic and private philanthropy, 

 the development of the institution where we meet to-day. 



A bibliography of the writings of Dr. John Torrey is hereto 

 appended. 



A Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within thirty 

 Miles of the City of New York. 8vo, pp. viii, IOO. With a 

 supplementary page by Amos Eaton. Prepared by John Torrey, 

 C. W. Eddy, and D'Jurco V. Knevala a committee of the Lyceum 

 of Natural History of New York. Albany, 1819. 



Notice of the Plants collected by Prof. D. B. Douglas during 

 the Summer of 1820 around the Great Lakes and the Upper 

 Waters of the Mississippi. Am. Journ. Sci. 4: 56-69. 1822. 



Description and Analysis of a new Ore of Zinc. Am. Journ. 



Sci. 5 : 235-238. 1822. 



Description of a new Species of Usnea ( U. Acharises) from 

 New South Shetland. Am. Journ. Sci. 6: 104-106. 1823. 



Description of some new or rare Plants from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, collected by Dr. Edwin P. James. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1 : 

 30-36. 1824. 



