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spent in Utah, and of 1876 with Prof. J, G, Lenimon, in southern 

 California, where a very large collection was accumulated. The 

 season of 1878 was spent in the vicinity of San Luis Potosi, 

 Mexico, and in Texas with Dr. Edward Palmer. Of recent years 

 he has paid especial attention to the Californian flora, in close 

 co-operation with Professor Greene. 



Dr. Parry was for many years an active and energetic mem- 

 ber of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, and was several 

 times its President, and he was a correspondent of numerous 

 other learned societies of America. He made several trips to 

 his native land, and was well-known and esteemed by Enghsh 

 and Continental botanists. He was essentially a field student, 

 and the accuracy of his conclusions and observations is largely 

 to be attributed to this fact. Indeed, the bulk and value of his 

 collections, and the number of novelties discovered by him, has 

 probably not been equalled in America. Some of these were 

 published by himself, but the greater part by others, especially by 

 Dr. Torrey, Dr. Engelman, Dr. Gray, Professor Greene, and Dr, 

 Watson. The amount of his writings is not at all in proportion 

 to his discoveries. Of late years he has been especially inter- 

 ested in the genera Eriogonuni. Chorizanthe^ CeanotJiiis and 



Arctostaphylos, on all of which he has written at length. He 

 was the author of several lists of plants from the western coun- 

 try, and an occasional contributor to the BULLETIN and other 

 scientific journals. 



Personally Dr. Parry was a man of gentle, unassuming nature, 

 and beloved by all who knew him. He was a close student, and 

 continually at work on his chosen science. In the possession of 

 a moderate income, he was enabled to gratify his tastes without 

 need of other occupation. The tidings of his death will bring 

 sincere grief to botanists at home and abroad. His work is com- 

 memorated in the genus Parryella and in a great number of 

 species, Primula Parryi being one of the most elegant plants of 

 its family. 



N. L. Britton. 



