Vol. IV.,No. 3.) BULLerin or THE Torrey Boranicat CLus. [New York, March, 1873. 
DEATH .OF. DR. TORREY. 
On the evening of the 29th of January, Dr. Torrey pre- 
sided at the meeting of the Club for the last time. We all 
noticed that he looked more infirm than usual, and the shadow 
of the coming event fell upon us. The next day he had an 
attack of pleurisy, which left him too weak to recover. He pre- 
‘served, however, the clearness of his mind to the last. Not being 
able to meet with us on the 25th of February, he sent us a cheerful 
note and a botanical communication which we publish below. He 
died about 6 p.m., Monday, March 10th. The funeral services were 
performed at Dr. Hastings Church, on 42d Street, Thursday, March 
13th. The members of the Club from far and near attended in a 
body, each wearing a sprig of Zorreya, as an appropriate badge. 
Among the mourners were representatives of the Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, and of the various academic and scientific associations with 
which the Dr. had been identified for the greater part of the century. 
The pall-bearers were Dr. Parker, Dr. Delafield, Dr. Agnew, Prof. 
Asa Gray, Prof. Henry, Gen. Roome, President Barnard, and Mr. 
Albinola. The profuse offerings of flowers to mark affection for the 
dead were certainly never more appropriate. The body was con- 
veyed the next day to Woodlawn Cemetery. 
Dr. Torrey was in his 77th year, and from boyhood had been de- 
voted to Science, and rendered her effective service. When a mere 
lad, as we have heard him relate, he corresponded with Curt Spren- 
gel, one of the most eminent botanists of his day. _His Catalogue of 
the Plants about New York was reported to the Lyceum, of which 
he was a founder, in 1817, when he was nineteen years old. His 
influence upon the development of the science of Botany in this 
country has been from that time to the present so large and so con- 
stant, and his intercourse with its students so extensive, so instruc- 
bably every botanist in America feels 
tive and so genial, that pro ‘ 
that in him = have lost a scientific father and a personal friend. 
On another occasion a more competent hand will present the record 
of his contributions to Botany. : 
The sense of a great loss we HB especially home to the members of 
the Club, who for the last six years have been in the habit of meeting 
him monthly. The social character of our reunions gave us oppor- 
tunity to become acquainted not only with his learning, his sagacity, 
is caution, and his integrity—qualities inseparable from a 
high scientific standing; but also with his personal bearing, his en- 
thusiasm, his ingenuosness, his friendliness, is geniality—charms 
which suffered no impair by the touch of time*. To be interested in 
otany was a recommendation to Dr. Torrey: the person shared in 
his love for the science. This was touchingly shown in the tender- 
ness with which he always recalled the departed, and to this trait, 
no doubt, was partly due his wide influence. The cordiality with 
* On his return from Florida last Spring, the Dr. was rallied upon going 
to seek the Fountain of Youth, whe 
Old-age. Tue longer I live the more 
in the De Senectute. 
I enjoy myself.” There is nothing finer 
n he retorted, “‘ Give me the Fountain of . 
