Benjamin Smith Barton

(1766-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 LBT ID: BeBarto1815 VIAF ID: 76431537 LOC ID: n84024505	B/BAP: 1766-02-10 DIED: 1815-12-19
SOURCES: ANB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
American physician and botanist educated at Edinburgh University where he was a member of the Speculative Society; he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (1791).
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Smith Barton: Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 39