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Barton, Benjamin Smith

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Barton, Benjamin Smith (1766-1815)

US naturalist and physician. As professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania (from 1790), he was the first teacher of natural sciences in North America.

Barton was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine and the natural sciences in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, and London from 1782 to 1788, and graduated at Göttingen, Germany. On his return to America he practised medicine in Philadelphia before taking up teaching. His works include Elements of Botany, 1812-14, Collections for an Essay toward a Materia Medica of the United States , 1810, and Flora Virginica, 1812.
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