BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Vol. 21. Lancaster, Pa., June 20, 1894. No. 6. 
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Thomas Morong,. 
By N. L. Britron. 
Thomas Morong, Curator of the Herbarium of Columbia Col- 
lege, died at Boston, Mass., April 26, 1894, after an illness of 
nearly four months. He had been troubled by a cough during 
the autumn of 1893, and in December, hoping for a speedy cure, 
accompanied Mr. John K. Small and the writer of this sketch, 
to Charleston, S. i, planning to remain for a few weeks in the 
South and return to his post before spring. But his malady was 
of a more serious ‘character than he or any of his associates had 
Supposed, and in January, while in Jacksonville, Fla., he was 
obliged to seek medical treatment, and for the next three months 
femained in St. Luke’s Hospital in that’ city, improving a little at 
_. limes so that he could be out of doors and enjoy the rapidly ad- 
_ VYancing season; but on the whole, failing in general health, so 
_ that, while he was favored with the best of medical attendance and 
_ Care, it became evident by March that he could not recover. He 
_ Same North about the middle of April, proceeding directly by rail 
to Boston, where he went to the house of his son, Dr. A. B. 
Morong, and there died within two weeks after his arrival. 
: He was too feeble to carry on much correspondence during 
his Stay in Jacksonville, but the few letters written by him indicate 
that his cheerful, uncomplaining, happy disposition remained with 
him up to the last. ! 
hood was spent in the South. On the death of his father, about y 
He was born at Cahawba, Ala., April 15, 1827, and his boy- 
