George Thurber
George Thurber (
Biography
He was mainly self-educated, though he did spend time at the Union Classical and Engineering School at Providence.Cooper Institute and on botany and materia medica in the New York College of Pharmacy. Later he occupied the chair of botany and horticulture in the Michigan College of Agriculture but returned again to New York and to lecture at the College of Pharmacy and in 1863 became editor of the American Agriculturist, where he worked for 24 years. In 1880 he visited Europe.[1]
He was life member of the
Gray Herbarium at Harvard University.[1]
Awards and honors
Thurber was awarded an honorary degree from Brown University in 1865.[3]
The standard author abbreviation Thurb. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
- ^ a b c d Carl R. Woodward (1936). "Thurber, George". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees: 1800s". The Corporation of Brown University. Brown University. Archived from the original on October 4, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Thurb.
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