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Whereas : Professor Asa Gray, Honorary Member of the Torrey Botanical Clvib, 

 departed this life on Monday, January the thirtieth, 1888, — 



Resolved : That the members of this Club have learned of his death with profound 

 sorrow. Devoting his life to our beloved science, he not only raised himself to the 

 foremost rank of botanists in any age or country, but has won for our land a place in 

 the annals of science that sheds a lustre upon the American name. 



Resolved: That not alone for his magnificent work in the strict paths of science 

 will he be ever memorable, but for his labors in the cause of education, for the charm 

 which his enthusiasm and literary skill have imparted to his popular works of instruc- 

 tion and to his essays .on scientific themes, thereby alluring thousands of students to 

 the zealous pursuit of this branch of knowledge, our countrymen owe him a debt 01 

 gratitude. 



Resolved: That through his early association with Dr. Torrey, one of the chief 

 founders of this Club, his friendly connection with us and our work, and his contribu- 

 tions to our publications, the Club have felt a special relationship with him that makes 

 his loss come to us as a deep personal bereavement. 



Resolved : To her who has been his constant companion for forty years, to whom 

 so much of his success is due, we hereby tender our sinccrest sympathy. 



Mr. E. E. Stert^s read notes on the genus Smi/ax, pro- 

 posing a revision of the N. American species and requesting 

 material and memoranda. 



Dr. R. G. Eccles read a paper upon the results obtained in 

 the chemical examination of seeds of Calycanthtis^ supplied by 

 Mr. Sterns at a former meeting. Notes by Miss Isabel S. Arnold 

 upon the Flora of the upper Chemung Valley, were read and 

 illustrated by herbarium specimens. After adjournment an 

 exhibition of microscopic preparations was given by the section 

 of Histology and Cryptogamic Botany. 



[The following has been received for publication.— Eds.] 



' At the regular meeting of the Hamilton Literary and Scientific 



Association^ held in its rooms, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 



February 9th, 1888, the following resolution was unanimously 

 adopted. 



Whereas: This Association has heard with deepest sorrow of the death of "Dr. Asa 

 Gray, 



Resolved: That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, there be trans- 

 mitted to his family a record of our profound regret at such a calamity to the botanical 

 world. That in his life he furnished a shining example of devotion to science and 

 thoroughness of investigation which will always command our admiration and respect, 

 and that, though of another nationality, we cherish and revere his memory, inseparably 

 interwoven not only with American Botany but with the development of botanical 

 science ittelf. 



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