Genus Coldenia
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For Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), Irish-born Scottish scientist, physician and politician. He studied medicine in London, emigrated to America in 1710, and became surveyor-general of the colony in 1718. In 1739 he moved to his farm in New York where he studied history and botany. He became one of the first men in Europe or America to completely master the new Linnaean system of plant classification but was not entirely satisfied with this system. He wrote papers on gravity and yellow fever, but his scientific work was generally ignored because it was not based upon grounded theory, i.e. observations, but only deductive reasoning. He was acting governor of New York from 1760–1762 and 1763–1765 and governor from 1769–1771.