Excerpt from Memorial History of the City of New-York, Vol. 4: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892

Philosophy also, printed privately for his students, First Prin ciples in Chemistry, Outlines in Geology, and Chemistry Applied to the Arts. His three sons achieved distinction in applied science, and the architecture of Grace Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral testifies to the genius of James Renwick, his second son.

The second president of the Lyceum was John Torrey, whose name appears among the first list of its ofiicers as a curator. At that time he was a student of medicine, but a fondness for botany led even then to his being accepted as a rising naturalist. He was one of a commit tee that, Shortly after the founding of the Lyceum, prepared a Cata logue of the Plants Growing Spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of new-york. Preferring natural science to practice, he ac cepwd, in 1824, an appointment of surgeon in the United States Army, and was promptly made professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geol ogy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This place he held until 1828. Meanwhile, in 1827, he was called to the chair of Chemistry and Botany in the College of Physicians and Sur geons, which place he then filled until 1855, when he was made emeri tus; also he was professor of chemistry at Princeton from 1830 till 1854, and of chemistry, mineralogy, and botany at the University of the City of new-york in 1822-3. From 1853 till his death, in 1873, he was in charge of the United States Assay Ofiice in this city. In the leisure from his busy work of teaching, he devoted himself assiduously to the pursuit of his favorite science of botany, achieving the titleso justly bestowed on him by his pupil and lifelong friend, Dr. Asa Gray.

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