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Peck, William Dandridge

naturalist, educator, author, was born May 8, 1763, in Boston, Mass. He was made professor of his specialty in Harvard, which chair he held from 1805 till 1822.

He published a catalogue of American and Foreign Plants; and several articles in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical society, which include The Description of the Atherine; History of the Slug-Worm; and Method of Taking Impressions of Vegetable Leaves by Means of Smoke. He also published an account of a sea-serpent in the Memoirs of the American Academy. He died Oct. 3, 1822, in Cambridge, Mass.