BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
John Strong Newberry. 
By N. L. Britton. 
(WitH PorTRAIT AND PLATE CXLITI.) 
Professor John Strong Newberry, president of this club for ten 
years, and one of the most eminent scientific men of our time, died 
at his residence in New Haven, Conn., during the night of De- 
cember 7, 1892. He was stricken with paralysis on the 3d of 
December, 1890, and while he recovered from the attack so as to 
be able to return to his studies for a short time during 1891, his 
recuperation was at no time sufficient to allow him to exert him- 
self for more than a few hours at a time. Only those who were 
closely associated with him can realize what a profound loss it vas 
to the Club and to American science generally when he was taken 
ill, and his death leaves a void which we are sure can never be 
filled. 
Professor Newberry was born at Windsor, Conn., on December 
22, 1822. He was thus within about two weeks of being seventy 
years of age. His family moved to Ohio during his boyhood, and 
his father became interested in coal-mining, then a new industry 
in that part of the country. Dr. Newberry’s first tendency to- 
wards Natural Science was brought about by his observation of 
the fossil plants of the roofing-shales of these coal mines. He 
made a large collection of these, and they formed the nucleus of 
the grand museum of Geology and Paleontology which he built 
up in later years for the School of Mines of Columbia College. Some 
of these specimens are still there preserved. He also was early 
