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further proceedings, the result of which was that I concluded to 
be my own publisher. I went to the University Press, selected 
the neat typography in which the work is dressed and set the 
printers to work—remaining with Gray, proof-reading and correct- 
ing until November, when I turned the concluding pages over to 
Prof. Eaton and came home. The work was issued just before 
the war began, and I heard nothing more of it for four years, 
when Dr. Gray smuggled through the lines a budget of friendly © 
notices of the work which appeared during those years in the 
periodicals of this country and Europe, and all at once I awoke to 
bigness.” 
Since 1860 Dr. Chapman’s Flora has been the standard botany 
for the Southern States, ranking with Gray’s “ Manual” for the 
States of the North. Early in 1883 Dr. Chapman published a 
reprint of the work, to which he added a supplement in order to 
include the many plants discovered within the range covered by 
the Flora, particularly in Florida, since the publication of the first 
edition. And now at the advanced age of 80 years, the doctor is 
actively engaged in the preparation of another edition of his Flora 
to meet the changes which have been made in recent years in 
systems of arrangement and in nomenclature. It was only the 
other day that I received a letter from him asking the loan of 
some specimens from the Gattinger Collection in order that he 
might settle for himself some determinations that had been 
brought into question. I do not know how far this new edition 
has progressed, but it is the hope of all botanists that this ven- 
erable, most courteous and faithful worker may live to again write 
the word finis and see the full fruition of his labor. 
The rich and varied flora of our own State has been made 
known to the world by Dr. A. Gattinger, of Nashville, through 
his publication entitled “Tennessee Flora.” Dr. Gattinger came 
to this State some 42 years ago and was located for a time here 
in the East, but he soon went to Nashville, where he has since 
resided. During all these years he has been an industrious col- 
lector and close observer of Tennessee plants, making many jour 
neys to inaccessible or out-of-the-way places to discover some — 
variety or increase his knowledge of plant distribution. Quite 
_ number of new species have been found by him and several of 
