Blumni journal 



A JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL PROGRESS. 



Published monthly by the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy 



of the^City of New York. 

 Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University. 



PUBLISHED AT 43 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY. 



CHAS. A. LOTZ, Ph.G., Editor H. J. GOECKEL, Phar.D., Associate Editor 



Vol. XIV. 



NOVEMBER 1907. 



No ]1. 



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GARDEN, 



JOHN TORREY, M. D. 



One of the ten busts of American Men of Science, now placed in 

 the American Museum of Natural History Building, is that of John 

 Torrey, M. D. Dr. Torrey was the first professor of physics and 

 chemistry in the New York College of Pharmacy. He was one of the 

 most distinguished men of science which this country has produced. 

 His early years were spent in Boston, he studied botany under Amos 

 Eaton and Dr. Hosack; medicine under Dr. Wright Post and at the 

 New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, then in Barclay Street. 

 He also studied chemistry at the latter institution, which is now the 

 medical department of Columbia University. 



Altho botany was always his favorite pursuit and that in which 

 his great reputation became established, yet so general were his ability 

 and attainments that he received in 1824, the appointment of professor 

 of chemistry at the United States Military Academy at West Point, 

 to the corresponding position at the New York College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons in 1828, and, concurrently with the latter, in Princeton 

 College and in our College of Pharmacy. 



He became the first superintendent of the United States Assay 

 Office in New York City, upon its establishment in 1854. This posi- 

 tion he held up to the time of his death in 1873. 



