Biological Institutions 



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Similar in conception to the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 is the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx Park in 

 New York City, which was established in 1891 through the 

 initiative of the Torrey Botanical Club, which takes its name 

 from one of its founders, the pioneer botanist, John Torrey, 

 who, like others of his early colleagues, was well versed in 

 other sciences than that in which he earned his reputation. 

 Commencing his career as a physician he subsequently 

 became professor of the natural sciences at West Point, the 



A View of the Arnold Arboretum with Bank of Laurel on the Left 



Courtesy of Professor Sargent. 



College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of the City 

 of New York, Princeton and Columbia, and was for many 

 years assay er in the New York assay office. On Torrey fell 

 the duty, among others, of working up the collections of 

 plants gathered by the many exploring expeditions, which 

 at this time were pushing the frontier of America out 

 through the trackless west. 



On the outskirts of Boston is one of the most beautiful 

 and unique collections of plants in the world. The Arnold 

 Arboretum is the joint product of Boston and Harvard 



