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E. Dudleyi, which ranges from Michigan to Southern New 
York and southward to North Carolina, and £. filiformis, (E. 
Pennsylvanica, var. filiformis), Chapm., found from Florida to 
Texas. 
Edward Tuckerman, LL.D., Professor of Botany in Amherst 
College, and the only American authority on Lichenology, died 
at his residence on the 15th of March. From _ biographical 
notices which have appeared in the Amherst Record, written by 
his colleague, Professor Tyler, from an account of his botanical 
labors, written by Mr. Henry Willey for the Botanical Gazette, 
and published in the April issue of that periodical, and from Dr. 
Gray’s sketch of this distinguished botanist in the American 
Journal of Science for April, we condense the following brief 
account: He was born in Boston, December 17, 1817; was 
graduated from Union College in 1837, and from tbe Harvard 
Law School in 1838. Subsequently he received the degree of 
M.A. from both Union and Harvard Colleges, and that of LL.D. 
from Amherst. -His duties at Amherst began in 1854. He was 
first lecturer on history, then professor of Oriental history, and 
in 1858 was appointed professor of botany, which position he 
held till his death. While Professor Tuckerman’s botanical work 
has mainly been in the field of Lichenology, and in this depart- 
ment he was probably as high authority as any other living 
student, his name is also associated with other plants. In 1843 
he published a pamphlet entitled ‘‘ Enumeratio Methodica Cari- 
cum Quarundum,” in which 253 species of Carex were listed ; 
his “‘ Observations on Some American Species of Potamogeton,” 
in the American Journal of Science of 1849, made known six 
new species of that genus. His last botanical contribution, en- 
titled “‘ Two Lichens of the Pacific Coast,” was published in this 
BULLETIN for March, 1884. 
Flora of Indiana—Origin of the. Warvey Thompson. (Botan. 
Gazette, xi., pp. 88-90.) 
Fossil Dicotyledonous Leaves—On the Determination of. Lester 
F. Ward. (Amer. Jour. Science, xxxi., pp. 370-375.) 
Fungi—Ellis and Everhart's North American. 
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of this valuable dis- 
tribution have recently been issued, : 
