Selections From The Scientific Correspondence Of Cadwallader Colden With Gronovius, Linnæus, Collinson, And Other Naturalists

by Cadwallader Colden, Asa Gray

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56 pages, Paperback

First published August 12, 2015

About the author

Cadwallader Colden was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York.

Colden was born in Ireland, of Scottish parents, while his mother Janet Hughes was visiting there. His father, Rev. Alexander Colden A.B. of Duns, Berwickshire, sent him to the Royal High School and Edinburgh University to become a minister.

When he graduated in 1705, he continued his studies in medicine, anatomy, physics, chemistry, and botany in London. In 1710, his aunt Elizabeth Hill invited him to Philadelphia where he started his practice in medicine. He returned to Scotland to marry Alice Chryste in 1715, and came back with her to Philadelphia that same year. In 1717, he was invited by Governor Robert Hunter to relocate to New York, and in 1720 he became a surveyor general of New York.