American naturalist, born in Dutchess County, NY, on the 4th of February 1790; died in Charleston, SC, on the 25th of February 1874; pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Charleston from 1815 to the end of his life. He is best known for his valuable contributions to natural history, and as the associate of Audubon in the preparation of the great work of the latter on ornithology. He wrote Two Letters on Hybridity, Characteristics of Genera and Species.
