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JOHN TORREY PUBLICATIONS

 

The following bibliography list John Torrey’s more significant publications on botany, with links to publications in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. A full bibliography of Torrey’s publications can be found in:

  • Robbins, C. C. (1968). John Torrey (1796-1873) His Life and Times. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 95(6), 515–645. (Access available to NYBG affiliated users only.)

Key Publications

 

  • Torrey, J. (1819). A Catalogue of Plants, Growing Spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York. New York: The Lyceum of Natural History, Printed by Websters and Skinners.
  • Torrey, J. (1826). A Compendium of the Flora of the Northern and Middle States. New York: S. B. Collins.
  • Lindley, J.; and Torrey, J. (1831). An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany. New York: G. and C. and H. Carvill.
  • Torrey, J. (1843). A Flora of the State of New York. Albany: Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly.
  • Gray, A.; and Torrey, J. (1838). A Flora of North America. New York : Wiley and Putnam.

Reports from Expeditions

 

  • Baird, S. F., Conrad, T. A., Emory, W. H., Englemann, G., Girard, C., Hall, J., and Torrey, J. (1857). Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. [Emory Expedition] Washington : C. Wendell.
  • Torrey, J., Bigelow, J. M., and Engelmann, G. (1857). Report on the Botany of the Expedition. [Whipple Expedition] Washington, D.C. : [s.n.].
  • Gray, A., Newberry, J. S., and Torrey, J. (1857). General Catalogue of the Plants Collected on the Expedition. [Williamson Expedition] Washington : B. Tucker.
  • Blake, W. P., and Torrey, J. (1856). Descriptions of Plants Collected Along the Route, by W.P. Blake, and at the Mouth of the Gila. [Williamson Expedition] Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson.
  • Torrey, J., and Gray, A. (1855). Report on the Botany of the Expedition. [Pope Expedition] [Washington, D.C.] : War Department.
  • Torrey, J., and Gray, A. (1855). Report on the Botany of the Expedition. [Beckwith and Gunnison Expeditions] [Washington, D.C.] : War Department.
  • Torrey, J., and Frémont, J. C. (1853). Plantae Frémontianae, or Descriptions of Plants collected by Col. J. C. Frémont in California. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution.
  • Baird, S. F., Girard, C., Haldeman, S. S., Hall, J., Stansbury, H., and Torrey, J. (1852). Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. [Stansbury Expedition] Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo and Co.

Manuscripts

 

  • Torrey, J. (1818). Calendarium Florae for the Vicinity of New York.
  • Torrey, J., Bigelow, J. M., and Gray, A. (n.d.). Plant Lists, Notes, and Correspondence: Frémont Expeditions.

 

 

An Introduction to the Natural
System of Botany, 1831

 

 

 

 

Calendarium Florae for
the Vicinity of New York, 1831
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