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bleakest desert, and be gone for weeks at a time. He would reappear 
laden down with specimens, carefully selected and well prepared. 
During the winter he would identify them. Such as were too puzzling 
he referred to Dr. Watson, Dr. Greenman, Prof. Piper, and other 
specialists. On reading over the files of letters written to these bota- 
nists, one occasionally finds letters expressing irritation or indignation 
that this particular botanist had been slow in sending the list of 
determinations that Cusick had requested. Until they were named, 
he could not sell his specimens, so he was naturally anxious to receive 
the list of identifications. He probably did not realize how many 
others were asking similar favors of these busy people. 
The worth of his work was abundantly recognized by other botanists. 
In 1908 Prof. M. E. Jones named a new genus of Umbelliferae, 
Cusickia, in his honor. Many species have been named Cusickii, 
after him, so many, in fact, that the writer has not attempted to 
compile a list of them. 
Though thus active in supplying the material on which others 
paved important records, he was himself exceedingly modest in the 
matter of publication. So far as can be learned only two articles from 
his pen have a botanical bearing and both of these are short notes, 
namely: Forest Fires in Oregon, Bot. Gaz. viii. 176 (1883), and 
Ribes aureum, Bot. Gaz. xv, 24 (1890). 
In 1913, he sold his own herbarium to the University of Oregon, 
at Eugene, Oregon. The greater part of this winter he spent at 
Eugene, working over his specimens for the University. 
The next year he felt the lack of his herbarium so keenly that he 
started in again with the greatest energy to assemble a new one. 
In the fall of 1921 when the writer visited Mr. Cusick at Union, 
Oregon, his collection had grown to 3600 sheets, fully half of them 
being mounted. By this time he had had a stroke, and his eyesight 
had failed so that he could no longer work on his specimens. Conse- 
quently he sold these collections to the State College of Washington at 
Pullman, Washington. His sight and his strength had begun to 
fail, but his interest was as keen as ever. He told the writer with the 
greatest enthusiam of interesting regions that he was planning to 
visit. "Together we talked of a future trip to the alpine slopes of 
Eagle Cap, or the rugged ravine of the Imnaha, though it was evident 
at the time that he would never make another long collecting trip. 
