Zaccheus Collins
Quaker philanthropist
About Zaccheus Collins
Lived 1764 – 1831 (aged 66–67).
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. John Torrey and William Baldwin.
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.
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Who was Zaccheus Collins?
Quaker philanthropist
When was Zaccheus Collins born?
Zaccheus Collins was born in 1764.
When did Zaccheus Collins die?
Zaccheus Collins died in 1831.
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