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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



resigned in 1834. In 1842, the Fisher Professorship of Natural 

 History was founded and Asa Gray was appointed. This 

 professorship has been since its foundation a botanical position. 



At Yale, botany was apparently first taught to a greater or 

 less extent by Dr. Eli Ives who held a position in materia 

 medica and botany from 1813 to 1829. He established a small 

 botanical garden which has since gone out of existence. After 

 Ives' time, botanical instruction was lacking until Daniel C. 

 Eaton was appointed professor of botany in 1864, a position 

 he occupied until his death in 1895. 



At Princeton, the first instruction in botany was probably 

 given in the closing years of the eighteenth century by John 

 MacLean who was professor of chemistry and natural history. 

 From 1824 to 1829, Luther Halsey was professor of natural 

 philosophy, chemistry, and natural history and from 1830 to 

 1854 a similar position was held by John Torrey. In 1874 

 George Macloskie .was appointed professor of natural history 

 and still occupies the chair of biology as professor emeritus. 



So far as known by the actual dates given me, Columbia 

 was the first institution in Avhich botany was taught, since 

 Daniel Treadwell was professor of natural history at King's 

 College from 1757 to 1760. The first professor of botany was 

 Richard Sharpe Kissam, 1792, who was succeeded by Samuel 

 L. Mitchill 1793 to 1795. After that, botany was apparently 

 included under natural history until the time of Dr. Torrey 

 who was professor of chemistry and botany and apparently the 

 real founder of the science at that institution. 



According to both Farlow and Harshberger, the Univers- 

 ity of Pennsylvania can claim the first real botanical professor- 

 ship in botany in this country as Dr. Adam Kuhn was made 

 professor of botany and materia medica in 17 68. Later William 

 Bartram was appointed to the same chair but did not accept. — 

 From an address by Dr. G. P. Clinton^ published in Science, 



