John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry...
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Torrey Joël DeVitto (born June 8, 1984) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and former fashion model. Her first starring role was as Karen Kerr...
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County. The Torrey pine is endemic to the California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion. The species epithet torreyana is named for John Torrey, an American...
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John Torrey Morse Jr. (January 9, 1840 – March 28, 1937) was an American historian, attorney, and politician. John Torrey Morse was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
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film In Harm's Way, played by John Wayne Torrey, New York, United States, a town Torrey, Utah, United States, a town Torrey Mountain, Montana - see List...
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botanist Charles C. Parry, named the peak for his botanist colleague John Torrey. Torrey actually did not see the peak until 1872, 11 years later (the year...
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Yucca baccata (category Taxa named by John Torrey)
Yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca, also known as Spanish bayonet and broadleaf yucca) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the...
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Torrey Botanical Society (formerly Torrey Botanical Club) was started in the 1860s by colleagues of John Torrey. It is the oldest botanical society in...
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Trillium chloropetalum (category Taxa named by John Torrey)
lacking in T. albidum. In 1856, John Torrey described Trillium sessile var. chloropetalum based on a specimen collected by John Milton Bigelow two years earlier...
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Sensation. London: Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 978-1-85285-478-2. Morse, John Torrey (1874). Famous trials: The Tichborne claimant (and others). Boston, Massachusetts:...
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