Vasey, George
physician, botanist, author, was born Feb. 28, 1822, in England. He was a physician and botanist who was botanist of the department of agriculture at Washington in 1872-93. He was the author of Beauties and Utilities of a Library; The Philosophy of Laughing and Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue of Native Forest Trees of the United States; Grasses of the United States; Agricultural Grasses of the United States; Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid Districts; Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States; and Individual Liberty. He died in 1893.