, in 1766, studied for two years at Edinburgh, and afterwards graduated at Gottingen. He settled at Philadelphia, and soon obtained a considerable practice. In 1789 he was appointed professor of botany and natural history in the College of Philadelphia, now the University of
was the author of various works on natural history, botany and materia medica, his Elements of Botany (18o3) being the best known. He died at Philadelphia on the 19th of December 1815.
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