TIN-: IinTAMST.- OF I'l 1 1 1. A I iKI.I'II I A. 



His death occurred on September 10, 1859. In opening 

 ;i case of ]. hints received shortly IK.- fore from Mr. Booth he 

 overstrained himself, and from that time steadily declined 

 until his death on September 10, is.V.i. His love of nature 

 \vas great, and this, joined with untiring industry and great 

 firmness of purpose, had raised him from the position of an 

 unknown artisan to the foremost rank of American men of 

 science. Elias Durand said of him immediately after his 

 death : " No other explorer of the botany of North America 

 has personally made more discoveries; no writer on American 

 plants, except perhaps Prof. Asa (.Jray, has described more 

 new genera and species." II is name is memorialized in a 

 genus of rosaceous plants, Nuttallia. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY.* 



1. "Observations on the genus Eriogonum, and the natural order 

 Polygonea?." Journal Acnilemj/ Natural Sciences, I : 24, 33. 



2. "An account of two new genera of Plants ; and of a species of 

 Til hen, and Liniosella, recently discovered on the banks of the Delaware, in 

 the vicinity of Philadelphia." Journal Academy Natural Sciences, I : 111. 



3. "Description of Collinsia, anew genus of plants."' Journal Aca- 

 il< mi/ Natural Scii'in-cy, I : 189. 



4. "Description of rare plants recently introduced in the gardens of 

 Philadelphia." Journal Academy Natural Sciences, II : 17(1. 



5. " Observations on the genus Oryzopsis. " Journal Aca<l< unj Natural 

 Sciences, III : 125. 



<!. " Remarks on the species of Corallorhiza indigenous to the United 

 Stato." Journal Academy Natural Sciences, III : 135. 



7. "Description of two genera of the natural order Crucifene.'' 

 Journal Aca<l> mi/ Natural Si-lcnt-cx, V : 132. 



8. " Observations on a species of Anemone of the section Pulsatilla 

 indigenous to the United States." Journal Afadnni/ Xatural Sciences, 

 V : 158. 



* For complete bibliography see /'.>j>n/<ir ,sv-/. /, 



