Botanists -- United States -- Correspondence; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 -- Correspondence
[40] Memoir of Dr. Gray, American Academy, 1888.
[41] _Scientific Papers of Asa Gray_, vol. ii.
[42] _How Plants Grow._
[43] William Munro, 1816-1880; general in British army. “The most
accomplished agrostologist of our day” [A. G.].
[44] Edward Tatnall, b. 1822, Wilmington, Del.; author of a catalogue
of plants of Newcastle County, Delaware.
[45] A quotation from Butler’s _Analogy_, on the use of the word
“natural,” which in the second edition is placed with the passages
from Whewell and Bacon, on p. ii., opposite the title-page.
[46] Reviews of Darwin’s _Origin of Species_--_Darwiniana_.
[47] L. J. Xantus de Vesey. Collected at Fort Tejon in 1857-1859 for
the Smithsonian Institution.
[48] Charles C. Parry, M. D., 1823-1890. Born in England, came to
America in 1832. Explored and collected on the Mexican boundary, in
the Rocky Mountains and in California. Died in Davenport, Iowa,--where
is his herbarium.
[49] Berthold Seemann, 1825-1871; editor of the _Journal of Botany,
British and Foreign_, etc., etc.
[50] The dinner after the capture of Mason and Slidell.
[51] President C. C. Felton.
[52] J. Trimble Rothrock, of McVeytown, Pennsylvania, b. 1839;
botanist of Wheeler’s Survey of the United States Expedition to
Alaska; late professor in the University of Pennsylvania.
[53] “Memoirs of Augustin Pyramus De Candolle,” _Am. Jour. Sci._,
xxxv. 1-10.
[54] Dr. Jeffries Wyman.
[55] _The Antiquity of Man._
[56] There was a rough sketch of the disk, etc., in the margin.
[57] Dr. Gray enlisted and drilled with a company raised for service
in Massachusetts.
[58] Oswald Heer, 1809-1883; born in canton St. Gall, Switzerland;
professor of botany at Zurich. “The most distinguished paleontological
botanist of our time” [A. G.].
[59] William H. Brewer; botanist of the survey of California;
professor in the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven.
[60] The assassination of President Lincoln.
[61] _Scientific Papers of Asa Gray_, selected by C. S. Sargent, vol.
ii. p. 321; also in _American Journal Science and Arts_, 2 ser., xli.
p. 1 (1866).
[62] Johann Nils Andersson, 1821; professor of botany at Stockholm.
[63] The portrait is in the herbarium of the Museum at Stockholm.
[64] A. W. Chapman, b. 1809. Southampton, Mass. Residing at
Apalachicola, Fla.; author of the _Flora of the Southern States_.
[65] Horace Mann, 1844-1868. Made large collections in the Sandwich
Islands. Wrote “Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants,” _Proceedings American
Academy_, 1866.
[66] George W. Clinton, 1807-1885; author of _A Catalogue of the
Native and Naturalized Plants of the City of Buffalo, and its
vicinity_.
[67] A set of questions on expression, etc.
[68] Coe F. Austin, 1832-1880; especially devoted to the study of
Hepaticæ.
[69] William M. Canby, of Wilmington, Delaware.
[70] Presidential address by George Bentham, meeting of the Linnæan
Society, May 24, 1867.
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