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78 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The last article was from Science, and was a brief note 
relative to some ‘‘new apples,’’ and two different colored 
dahlias found growing on one stem. Besides these, there 
were two bound volumes of his own writings, one contain- 
ing 22 pamphlets ranging from three or four to 67 pages, 
and all published prior to 1882 and mainly in the seventies, 
while the other contained 42 pamphlets, additional to some 
experiment station documents. 
On June 1, 1875, the first number of the Scientific 
Farmer was published. In March, 1876, the subject of 
this sketch joined with E. H. Libbey, then editor, in edit- 
ing that paper. In May, 1878, the first number of the 
Scientific Farmer with E. Lewis Sturtevant as sole editor 
and proprietor, was issued. This journal, however, which 
was rather in advance of the times, did not prove a success, 
and was discontinued in October, 1879. It contained a 
large amount of information in relation to agricultural 
science, and was contributed to by the prominent men of 
the day in agricultural investigation. 
As a student of the history and botanical characteristics 
of maize, Sturtevant was without a peer in the world. 
During his whole life, after settling on the farm, this sub- 
ject engaged his attention. At the New York Station he 
grew varieties of corn from seed secured from all over 
America and abroad, and made an extensive botanical clas- 
sification from field study, which was fully illustrated, and 
published in the reports of that station. 
A year or two before his death, at the request of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, he prepared and 
furnished the Department the manuscript concerning varie- 
ties of maize, which Director True of the Office of Experi- 
ment Stations of the Department, informs me will soon 
appear as Bulletin 57 of that Division. 
Five children survive him, of whom two sons and two 
daughters were by a first wife, to whom he was married in 
1864, and one son by a second wife, to whom he was mar- 
