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tracts of white pine that represents all that is left of one of the most 
magnificent pine regions of the continent. The excursion to the 
island of Mackinac and Sault Ste. Marie after adjournment will be 
especially attractive to botanists. Most of the prominent western 
botanists wUl be in attendance at this meeting, and many others 
from all parts of the country. No botanist should willingly miss so 
good an opportunity to become acquainted with his co-laborers and 
to obtain the inspiration to be secured through personal associations. 
J. C. Arthur, 
Secretary of Botanical Club of A. A. A, S, 
Dr. Franklin B. Hough. — Science, especially botany and forestry, 
has lost an illustrious worker in Dr. Franklin B. Hough, who died at 
his residence in Lowville, New York, on the 9th of June, in his 63d 
year— he having been born at Martinsburg in Lewis County, New 
York on the 20th of July, 1822. He practiced medicine in Somer- 
yille from 1838 to 1842, and continued to cultivate his natural taste 
tor literary, historical and statistical work. In 1847 he published an 
account of the flora of Lewis County, which was so well received by 
the botanists of that day that he received his first scientific honors 
soon after by being elected a correspondent of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, which has been followed since by 
his election to some thirty-six other scientific or literary bodies. His 
statistical and historical labors, especially in connection with his own 
native State, have been enormous. 
Dr. Hough, as a member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, was a prime mover in the action of that 
body, which did so much to make the modern phase of forestry a 
national question; and when, in response to this movement, the 
national government undertook an investigation of the forestry 
question, Dr. Hough was placed in charge of the matter under the 
supervision of the Department of Agriculture. His reports in connec- 
tion with this are models of pains-taking industry in the collection of 
tacts. It was in just such work that his talent showed to advantage. 
It was always charming to engage him in conversation in connection 
with the history of any of our common studies. Anecdotes con- 
nected with men and things, with a ready recollection of dates and 
incidents, would be freely communicated with an easy freshness 
. truly remarkable. 
During the winter he was engaged at Albany in drafting, and 
watching through its various stages, the Forestry Bill which has since 
become the law of that State. He still contrived to work on other 
literary subjects that were quite enough for one man's time. It is 
believed this weakened his hitherto iron constitution, and brought 
on an attack of pneumonia about the beginning of April. After four 
weeks he seemed well enough to be removed to his home at Lowville, 
but only eventually to succumb.— Gardeners' Monthly. 
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Botanical Notes. 
Origui of the Loinbardy /'^//ar.— According to Mr. Bossier,^ a 
botanist who has lately studied oriental botany, this poplar is a dis- 
