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Noteworthy was his local collection of the flora of the Willoughby 
Lake region. This portion of his herbarium, including 1547 sheets, 
was given to the Gray Herbarium with the understanding, now carried 
into effect, that it might be transferred to the herbarium of the New 
England Botanical Club, which in recent years has become the 
recipient of similar collections in which the local element is more 
detailed than can be symmetrically introduced into a world collection 
like the Gray Herbarium. Many of Dr. Kennedy's plants have been 
cited in published work and his specimens are subject to frequent 
reference. There is a pleasant sentiment in their safe housing, ready 
accessibility, and promise of long-continued usefulness in the estab- 
lishment for which Dr. Kennedy did so much. 
Dr. Kennedy's name is commemorated in American Botany by 
Carex vestita, var. Kennedyi Fernald and by Sabatia Kennedyana 
Fernald; the latter beautiful species, whose identity was established 
by Mr. Fernald in 1917, is a fitting monument to the Doctor who 
devoted so much of his life to the study of plants. So far as I can 
learn he published only one species; this was in the days when his 
eyesight permitted him to work intensively on the mosses. His new 
species which is accepted by all bryologists is Pottia Randii Kennedy, 
published in Ruopora, i. 78, pl. 5, 1899. 
Dr. Kennedy wrote a number of botanical articles for RHODORA 
and other publications, but his principal effort as an author was the 
publication in 1904 of a Flora of Willoughby, Vermont — a most 
excellent piece of work that may well serve as a model for publications 
of this character. He became acquainted with this interesting station 
for rare and unusual plants probably in the early eighties and he sel- 
dom after that let a year go by, without making at least one trip to 
Willoughby. When he began to get together his material for publica- 
tion he visited the locality repeatedly at different seasons of the year 
for several years before finally issuing the Flora. 
After all, the remarkable and striking characteristic of Dr. Kennedy's 
life was his personality. It is not so much what he did as what he 
was that endeared him to all his friends and associates. His unfailing 
good humour and quiet dignity, his vast and varied knowledge of 
books and of men, his large sy mpathy so freely given to all, impressed 
every one who came in contact with him and made one feel as if he 
were better and stronger for having known Dr. Kennedy. What 
he has done will remain to his lasting credit, and what he was will be 
lovingly remembered by all who knew him. 
