George Thurber (Providence, Rhode Island, September 2, 1821 – Passaic, New Jersey, April 2, 1890) was a United States naturalist and writer.
[2] He was mainly self-educated, though he did spend time at the Union Classical and Engineering School at Providence.
In 1850, he secured an appointment as botanist, quartermaster and commissary on a survey of the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
[1][2] He made an important collection of plants, and on his return to Providence was given the degree of A.M. by Brown University.
[2] His collection of plants from the western United States is in the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University.