BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Emily L. Gregory. 
By ELIZABETH G. BRITTON. 
Botany and Barnard College have lost an earnest and devoted 
worker by the death of Doctor Gregory. Her loss is particularly 
sad just now when Barnard is at the threshold of its new and en- 
larged career, its scope and accommodations widened and its new 
home nearly ready for occupancy. That Dr. Gregory was one of 
the principal attractions of the College in the early days of its ca- 
reer, cannot be denied, for at first, the number of special students in 
botany exactly equalled, for three successive years, the total num- 
ber of students in the College. She gave herself enthusiastically 
to her work and spared neither her time nor her strength in her 
devotion to her pupils, encouraging them to do original investiga- 
tion and showing them by her own work and guidance in the 
laboratory how to do it. Her own attainments were high and 
diverse and she sometimes, perhaps, failed to realize that she be- 
fitted more advanced and special work than her students were 
qualified to accomplish, but whatever achievements are recorded 
from those who have worked with her, have always been of true 
scientific merit and often worthy of publication. Several have 
been read before the Torrey Botanical Club and published in the 
BuLLetin and elsewhere. Besides this Dr. Gregory did her share 
of “ popularizing” botany by assisting with her pupils at the three 
“ Annual Exhibits of the Progress of Science,” held by the Acad- 
emy of Sciences of New York in the spring of 1 895-96 and 1897. 
and by various private evening classes of men a acheapeoee The 
high and special character of her training guided her studies en- 
