Thomas Conrad Porter
1822–1901
American botanist and pastor. Taught chemistry, zoology, and botany at Marshall College, later Franklin and Marshall College, 1849–66; professor of botany, zoology, and geology, Lafayette College, 1866–97; emeritus professor and curator of the museum, 1897–1901. Collected plants in Pennsylvania, northern Georgia, and the Rocky Mountains.
Source
DAB.
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.
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