2 Rhodora [JANUARY 
two years his time was largely spent in his garden; here in small com- 
pass was a remarkable variety of conditions, rich ground, swamp, rocky 
hillside; here he had growing nearly every fern found in New England, 
and here too he watched with much interest a little group of flowering 
plants, selected as best showing the phenomena of heredity and muta- 
tion that now attract so much interest. The enthusiasm with which 
he showed me these treasures one Sunday morning early in last Oeto- 
ber, will always be a most pleasant recollection. 
It would seem that an active business life and the thorough study of 
a specialty would be all that one could achieve; but he had other 
interests as well. He was an active worker in the anti-slavery move- 
ment, one of the first to be interested in labor reform questions, a 
leading spirit in the work of securing for the public the Middlesex 
Fells, and for eighteen years he was a member of the school board of 
Medford. He was an original member of the New England Botanical 
Club, a life member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and а. 
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
I first became acquainted with him at the time of the formation of 
the Middlesex Scientific Field Club, of which he was one of the chief 
promoters; in the many excursions we made in the Fells region and 
elsewhere in the county he was a leader, and his knowledge of the region 
was of much value for the Flora of the county, published by the Mid- 
dlesex Institute; he was always ready to give his time and advice to 
those of us who were then beginners, and whose ignorance must have 
seemed to him monumental. He was a man of strong and enduring 
attachments; sensitive as a woman, but with a man’s courage in 
defense of his convictions. Whatever he believed in he championed 
with an almost passionate devotion; whether it were the giving of 
freedom to the slave, the rescuing of the Fells from destruction, or the 
true theory of the terminal bud of Botrychium, he would fight for it 
as long a; his strength endured. That others could not take the same 
stand, indeed might hold other views, seemed often to surprise and 
distress him, but never impaired his kindness of heart to the delin- 
quents. ‘Though a careful student of details of structure and develop- 
ment, he never lost sight of the beauty of the living plant, and he was a 
lover of nature all his life. No more fitting end to his life can be 
imagined than that which came to him, in open air, among the familiar 
objects of his loved Middlesex Fells, now, so much by his own exertions, 
safe for all time. . 
