Carey, John, 1797-1880

LC control no.	no2019189945
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Carey, John, 1797-1880 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Carey, J., 1797-1880
Biography/History note	British tradesman and botanist, born at Camberwell, London, went to the United States 1830, settled at first Towanda, Pa., at Bellow Falls, Vermont 1831-1836, at New York 1836-1852, made a botanical journey with Asa Gray to North Carolina 1841, returned to London (G.B.), died at Blackheath, London 1880.
Associated country	Great Britain United States
Located	New York (N.Y.) London (England)
Birth date	1797-06-21
Death date	1880-03-26
Place of birth	Camberwell (London, England)
Place of death	Blackheath (London, England)
Field of activity	Botany Stocks
Profession or occupation	Botanists Stockbrokers
Found in	The John Torrey Papers, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden : John Carey to John Torrey, Greenwich Street, [New York City], June 25, 1846 (Jno. Carey) John Carey to John Torrey, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, London, December 24, 1854 (Your affectionate friend, JC) Taxonomic literature, 2 : page 412-413 (Carey, John (1797-1880), British tradesman and botanist, born at Camberwell, London, went to the United States 1830, settled at first Towanda, Pa., at Bellow Falls, Vermont 1831-1836, at New York 1836-1852, made a botanical journey with Asa Gray to North Carolina 1841, returned to London (G.B.), died at Blackheath, London 1880 (J. Carey). Contributor to Asa Gray's Carices of the Northern United States, 1847; author of articles Description of three new Carices and a new species of Rhynchospora, 1847; Notes on some Chenopodiaceae growing spontaneously about the city of New York, 1849; Remarks on the distortion of the achenium in certain species of Carex, 1853.) Biographical notes upon botanists, volume 1, 1965 : page 310 (John Carey, June 21, 1797 - March 26, 1880)
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Associated language	eng