William Dandridge Peck
1763–1822
American naturalist. Professor of natural history, Harvard, 1805. Established a botanic garden in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sources
DAB
Elliott 1979.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
Elliot, Clark A. 1979. Biographical dictionary of American science: the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press.
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