George Thurber
American botanist and chemist . Trained as a pharmacist; lecturer in chemistry, Franklin Society of Providence, Rhode Island; botanist, quartermaster, and commissary on the United States–Mexico boundary survey, 1850–3; with the United States Assay Office, New York, 1853–6; lecturer in botany and materia medica, College of Pharmacy, New York, 1856–60, 1865–6; professor of botany and horticulture, Michigan State Agricultural College, 1859–63. Editor of the American Agriculturist, 1863–85. President of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1873–80. Specialised in grasses.
Sources: DAB Taxonomic literature
(See the bibliography for full references to sources)
See also Correspondence, volume(s): 12