GEORGE EDWARD POST 



1838-1909 



Postia Lanuginosa BOISSIER AND BLANCHE 



Post lived his long life as a medical missionary 

 in far-off Syria, becoming equally well-known 

 for his surgical and for his botanical work. Born 

 in New York City, December 17, 1838, he was 

 the son of Dr. Alfred and Harriet Beers Post. 

 He graduated from the old New York Free 

 Academy, now the College of the City of New 

 York, in 1854, taking his master's degree three 

 years later. Encouraged by a botanist friend, he 

 became an eager collector of plants and prepared 

 a Flora of the region round New York, which he 

 presented as his graduation thesis. He then 

 entered the medical department of the University 

 of New York, from which he graduated in 1860. 

 One year afterwards he entered the Union The- 

 ological Seminary. 



Dr. Post was elected in 1868 to the professor- 

 ship of surgery in the Syrian Protestant Hospital 

 at Beirut, which is maintained by the Presby- 

 terian Board of Foreign Missions, and this he 

 held until his death. He was also surgeon to the 

 Johanniret Hospital, in Beirut. 



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