Tuckerman
EDWARD, an Ameri can botanist; born in Boston, Mass., TUCSON Dec. 7, 1817; was graduated at Union College in 1837 and at the Harvard Law School in 1839; studied for several years in Europe; returning to the United States in 1842 he accompanied Asa Gray to the White Mountains on a botanical expedition; was instructor in history at Amherst College in 1854-1873 and Professor of Botany there in 1858- 1886. He was the foremost authority on lichenology in the United States. His publications include: "Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of North American Lichens" (1872); "A Catalogue of Plants Growing Without Cultivation Within Thirty Miles of Amherst College" (1882); and "A Synopsis of the North American Lichens" (1882). He died in Amherst, Mass., March 15, 1886.