James Englebert Teschemacher

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James Englebert Teschemacher (11 June 1790 in Nottingham, England – 9 November 1853 near Boston, Massachusetts) was a scientist. He began a commercial career in 1804 by entering a foreign mercantile house in London, where he showed business talents of a high order. In 1830 he accepted a lucrative offer to go to Cuba, but it proved unsatisfactory when he reached Havana, and he returned to England. He then determined to come to the United States, and reached New York City in February, 1832, after which he settled in Boston, where he engaged in commercial pursuits until his death. Teschemacher devoted his leisure to science, and published about thirty papers on various subjects in chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany. These appeared chiefly in the transactions of scientific societies of which he was a member. Besides several addresses, he published Concise Application of the Principles of Structural Botany to Horticulture (Boston, 1840); Essay on Guano (1845); and a translation of Julius Adolph Stöckhardt's Chemical Field Lectures (Cambridge, 1852). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1841.^[1]

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↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter T" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 13, 2016.

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Teschemacher, James Englebert". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . New York: D. Appleton.

Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative for several decades. Later the encyclopedia became notorious for including dozens of biographies of people who had never existed. The apostrophe in the title is correctly placed and indicates that more than one person, i.e. a company, authored the work.

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[AAAS-1] "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter T" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 13, 2016.