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in connection with Henry Brooks; the same was the case with 
smaller papers, chiefly on botanical or historical subjects, published 
in magazines ; the history of the Middlesex Canal published in the 
Bay State Monthly, Nov., 1884, is a model of a clear, accurate, read- 
able monograph. 
He was an excellent classical scholar, and had a good knowledge 
of modern languages; a fine mathematician, and well read in the 
-best literature. Though exacting in his requirements in regard to 
the work either of himself or of others, he had always a kindly spirit 
towards the worker; indeed, one cannot think of him as having an 
unkindly thought even to those of whose aims and methods he dis- 
approved. : 
With the exception of observations during trips to Nova Scotia in 
1900 and Newfoundland in 1902, his botanical work was done in 
New England; a visit to Europe in 1880, mostly on foot through 
England and Scotland, was for recreation, not for science, but his 
journal shows that he was always noticing the flowers and trees with 
whose names he was familiar, but which he had never seen growing 
wild. It is doubtful if any one else was as well acquainted as he 
with our New England trees, as they grow uncultivated; and the 
many summers he spent at Nantucket had made him familiar with 
its curiously rich flora, with very limited stations for the rarer species; 
probably no one else knew them as well as he did. 
For nine years he was trustee of Tufts College; in 1866 he 
received from the College the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1902 
of Doctor of Science; he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and 
Zeta Psi societies; a member of the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, the Medford Historical Society, and an original member of the 
New England Botanical Club. 
Though at first sight his manner seemed somewhat reserved, he 
had warm friends in many and widely separated quarters, and his 
loss will be felt in all. President Capen's address in the Tuftonian 
and the memorial notice by the Massachusetts Schoolmastets’ Club 
are tributes of deep personal feeling as well as of professional 
appreciation; the Nantucket fishermen will miss one who was 
-always a welcome companion on a cruise; a host of his pupils will 
cherish his memory ; all will miss an honest, modest, able, lovable 
man. 
