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BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH (1766-1815)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 452 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH (1766-1815) , American naturalist, was born at
Lancaster
 ,
Pennsylvania
 , 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
Pennsylvania
 ; he was made professor of materia medica in 1795, and on the death of Dr Benjamin Rush in 1813 he obtained the chair of
practical
 
medicine
 . In 1802 he was chosen president of the American Philosophical Society, of which he was a strong supporter.
Barton
  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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