TIN-: BOTANISTS >K I'HII.ADKI.I'HI A. 



ami characters. This gift enabled him t<> recognize speci- 

 men- which he had not met with for many years. lh 

 personally constructed in the most skillful manner his 

 herbarium, cases, tables, stands, microscopical eabinets. etc., 

 with a decree of perfection rarely excelled by experi 

 artisans. While so ardently devoted to nature in her 

 various manifestations 1 >r. llrinton did not overlook the 

 advantages of linguistic attainments. In his earlier Life 

 much of his time was devoted to the study of German, in 

 which language he conversed fluently. He was also profi- 

 cient in Latin and French. 



Phvsicallv, J>r. Brinton seemed to embody the hiirhe-t 



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expre ion of perfect manhood. His commanding presence 

 and graceful bearing stamped him at once as a leader. His 

 powerful frame enabled him to endure and overcome pvai 

 hardship and fatigue. 



The botanical community in which he moved met 

 with a severe loss in his sudden death on December <>, ],s'.i|. 



MARY TREAT. 



Mrs. .Mary Tn-at, an American naturalist, whose ori- 

 ginal researches have been gratefully acknowledged by 

 scientists at home and abroad, was born in "Is :'>.">. in Toinp- 

 kins County, New York; but for the past twenty-seven 

 years has made her home in Vineland. New Jersey. She 

 was married, in l.SGl, to Dr. Jose}>h Treat, who died in 

 1879. 



She brg.-in her studies at a time when text-books on 

 the natural sciences were rare, and pursued them mainly 

 by si'lf-din-ctcd invoiinations in the field of nature. 

 receiving encouragement and a~<i<tance by correspondence 



