Robert Bridges
1806–82
Physician and botanist. Librarian, corresponding secretary, vice-president, and then president (1864) of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Appointed professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1842; professor of chemistry, Franklin Medical College, 1846–8.
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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