Extract from the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
March 19, 1873. 
The President announced the recent death of the cele- 
bivated Botanist, Dr. John Torroy, an Honorary Member of 
the Society for over thirty-two years. 
Di. T. Sterry Hunt h.aving been requested to jarepare an 
account of the life of Dr. Torrey, the following notice was 
read at a subsequent meeting. 
Di'. John Torrey died of pneumonia !it his home in Mew 
York, on the 10th of March, 187.S, in the seventy-seventh 
year of liis age, h.aving been born in that city on the 15th 
of August, 1796. Choosing the medic.al profession, he grad- 
uated .as doctor of medicine in 1818, and in 1824 was 
appointed professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology 
in the Military Academy of West Point, but resigned his 
post in 1827, to acoeiit the chair of chemistry and botany in 
his alma, matev, the Mew York College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, of which he disch.arged the duties most acceptably 
until his resignation in 1855. During the greater part of 
this time, he occupied .also the ch.air of chemistry and nat- 
uial history at Princeton, to which he was named in 1830. 
resigning it only in 1853, when he was made chief ass.ayer to 
