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1842, his mother with a family of four sons removed to Woburn, . 
Mass. He has frequently related to us his recollections of ee : 
first spring in Northern lands, having been particularly impressed 
with the beauty of the fruit trees in full bloom. We have heard 
him say that he was then, and until his majority, under the charge 
of a guardian. He was prepared for college at Woburn and Med- : 
ford, entered Amherst, and was graduated from that institution mM 
1848. A portion of the year following was spent in the Law 
School of Harvard College, and in 1850 he became a member of 
Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 185 3, and being 
ordained a Congregational clergyman in 1854, a profession which | 
he followed almost without intermission until 1888, preaching SUC 
cessively in Iowa City, Iowa, and Webster, Globe Village, Glows ya 
cester, Ipswich and Ashland, Mass. , 
It appears to have been association with William Oakes, of ie : 
wich, and Dr. J. W. Robbins, of Uxbridge, that first awakened m | 
him a'taste for botanical study. These diligent and critical a 4 
dents of the New England flora each furnished him with maten ; 
for the nucleus of an herbarium, and from Dr. Robbins he received . 
his entire collection of Naiadacez, with the understanding that oe 
Mr. Morong was to continue Dr. Robbins’ researches 0” ors | 
group of plants—a trust that we know has been faithfully fulfilled. } 
All Mr. Morong’s material of this order was incorporated vk ; 
him with the herbarium which in later years came under 7 . 
charge, and it there awaits a student who will continue the are : 
begun by Dr. Robbins. The collection of these plants is one @ . 
the most complete in existence, almost every described fe - 
being represented, most of them abundantly. se 
The writer’s first acquaintance with Mr. Morong was . a : 
Buffalo meeting of the American Association for the Advancems” : 
of Science in 1886. He at that time spoke to me of a great ae i 
sire to visit one of his brothers, a resident of Chile, and at < 
same time collect and study the flora of some portion of Sou 
America, he having been greatly impressed with the success o 
Dr. Rusby’s Bolivian expedition. Some correspondence 1? A 
tion to the plan passed between us subsequently, and we const! — 
with Dr. Allen during the New York meeting of the passer” 
Association the following year, with the result that between aes 
