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these bear his name. His herbarium, of which the University of 
Tennessee is now the fortunate possessor, was one of the finest 
private collections in the country. It numbers between three and 
four thousand species, besides a large stock of duplicates which 
can be used in making further accessions to the herbarium proper. 
The Flora.of Tennessee and the general Flora east of the Missis- 
sippi are well represented in it. The collection has been enriched 
through exchanges with many prominent botanists, both North 
and South. 
Dr. Gattinger has directed special attention to the grasses of ~ 
Tennessee, and he contributed the most important chapters in 
Killebrew’s work on these plants. - 
_ His “Flora of Tennessee,” published in 1887, is a work of 
excellent merit and at once stamps its author as a botanist of the 
first order. In speaking of his experience, in the preface to the 
“Flora,” he says «I am yet in possession of specimens collected 
in 1849, when I first took up my residence in East Tennessee as 
a practicing physician. Placed as I was in those early days amid 
unfamiliar modes of life, with no access to intellectual resources, 
Without information about the condition and advance of scientific 
affairs in this country, my botanical progress could for many years 
be no other than tedious and slow; but I kept up the pursuit, 
which since early school years had been to me a source of pleasure 
and consolation. His “Flora” is based upon botanical collections 
made exclusively by himself during 38 years’ residence in the 
State. In it some space is given to a description of the physical 
characters of the State and the peculiar flora of each division, and 
the habitat and date of flowering of the species enumerated is 
8iven. To the students of botany within the State it is indispen- 
Sable. It has not been my good fortune to meet Dr. Gattinger, 
but he is a most agreeable correspondent and his letters bespeak 
@ man of high culture and refinement. . 
He has accomplished much by his industry and passionate 
love for his chosen work, and there are few names better known 
or held in greater esteem by the working botanists of the country 
than that of Dr. Gattinger, of Tennessee. i" 
The list of Southern botanists is a long one, and contain 
many honorable and even brilliant names. I would that [ were 
