252 Peck : Elliot C. Howe 



New York botanist to take up this study with earnest activity. 

 After seven years he left Fort Edward and renewed the practice of 

 medicine at New Baltimore, N. Y., but the field here was limited 

 and he soon went to Yonkers, N. Y., wlierc he took a prominent 

 position in his profession. He was secretary of the Westchester 

 County Homoeopathic Society for six years and its president for 

 two years. While here he was able to make large additions to his 

 herbarium and to make many new botanical acquaintances. He 

 also became a member of the Torrey Botanical Club. After 

 thirteen years of great activity in Yonkers, failing health, long re- 

 sisted, compelled him to relinquish the practice of medicine, and 

 fourteen years ago he removed to Lansingburg. As long as his 

 health and strength permitted he found enjoyment in his botanical 

 excursions and in the study of the local flora. 



Seven years ago he lost the use of his limbs, and since that 

 time he had been confined to the house a helpless invalid. AH 

 these 3'ears of affliction he found comfort in his family, a wife and 

 four children, two sons and two daughters, and in his herbarium. . 

 He kept up his botanical correspondence and exchanges even to 

 the last month of his life. On the evening of March 2d he fell 

 asleep and a varied and useful life was closed. 



He was the author of several pieces of musical composition, 

 among which are " ^Minnie Moore," his favorite ; " The old Arm 

 Chair," " His pleasant Grave," "The dying Drummer Boy" and 

 " The Wanderer's Dream," a piece which was pla}'ed by the 

 musicians of both armies during the Civil War. He was a corre- 

 spondent of the Troy Tunes and at one time the editor of the Fam- 

 ily Journal . In an article in the Botanical Gazette, February, 

 1 88 1, he claimed the hybrid character of Carcx Sullivantii Boott, 

 which character is now generally admitted. In 1894, In connec- 

 tion with Dr. H. C. Gordinier, of Troy, he published the Flora ot 

 Rensselaer county, a Record of the Phenogams and Vascular 

 Cryptogams growing in the county Independent of cultivation. 

 In It they record 1345 species and varieties. He wrote the de- 

 scriptive article on the New York species of Carcx, published In 

 the 48th State Museum Report. In this he describes a new spe- 

 cies, Carex seorsa Howe, and two new varieties, C. lenticularis 

 incrcns Howe and C. Emnionsii distincta Howe. This article rep- 





