Zaccheus Collins

Zaccheus Collins (1764–1831) was a botanist. He collected plants and owned a herbarium. He collected many plants from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was gifted specimens from southern statea including North Carolina and Georgia.[1] The genus Collinsia is named after him.

He corresponded with botanists including Henry Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg, Stephen Elliott, Jacob Bigelow,[1] John Torrey and William Baldwin.[2]

A Quaker, he was a philanthropist and belonged to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Linnean Society, and the American Philosophical Society in which he served as a curator.[3]

References
  1. "Repository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results". findingaids.library.upenn.edu.
  2. Collins, Zaccheus (March 19, 1817). "Zaccheus Collins and John Torrey correspondence, 1817-1819". Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. "Several Large gooseberrys, the growth of Mr. Z. Collins's garden, one of which weight 10 pennyweight 22 grains | Philadelphia Museums". philadelphia-museums.washingtonpapers.org.


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