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BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON (1766-1815)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN See also:SMITH See also:BARTON (1766-1815)  , See also:American naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Lancaster, See also:Pennsylvania, in 1766, studied for two years at See also:Edinburgh, and afterwards graduated at See also:Gottingen . He settled at See also:Philadelphia, and soon obtained a considerable practice . In 1789 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany and natural See also:history in the See also:College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania; he was made professor of materia medica in 1795, and on the See also:death of Dr See also:Benjamin See also:Rush in 1813 he obtained the See also:chair of See also:practical See also:medicine . In 1802 he was chosen See also:president of the American Philosophical Society, of which he was a strong supporter . See also:Barton was the author of various See also: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 See also:December 1815 .

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