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which those deposits came, as occasionally fragments of 

 shells were found therein. 



In one of his journeyings to the swamps of Cape May 

 County he met Colonel F. Austin, the noted cryptogamic 

 botanist, who died at Closter, New Jersey, a few years ago, 

 and who at that time was engaged in the study of the flora 

 of New Jersey. There at once sprang up a real friendship 

 between them, which increased as time advanced, termi- 

 nating only when Austin died. The interest, however, 

 which had been created to endeavor to complete a list of 

 the plants of New Jersey was not allowed to abate. A pre- 

 liminary catalogue was later compiled by Professor N. L. 

 Britton, and printed under the auspices of the Geological 

 Survey of the State, in which the name of C. F. Parker fre- 

 quently appears. Probably no botanist made more frequent 

 visits to the pine barrens and swamps of New Jersey, nor 

 collected so extensively as he did. The collection of New 

 Jersey plants which he has left is one of the finest and most 

 perfect that exists, and is, of itself, a monument of patience 

 and skill of which any one might feel proud. 



Paralysis of the brain terminated his life on the 7th 

 day of September, 1883, in the sixty-third year of his age. 



WILLIAM QAMBEL. 



William Gambel * was born in New Jersey about 1821. 

 In his boyhood he seems to have attracted the attention of 

 Thomas Nuttall, who employed him as an assistant in his 

 trips. In 1814 Gambel journeyed to the southern Rocky 

 Mountains with a party of trappers on an ornithological 

 and botanical trip, for the Academy of Natural Sciences of 



* SARGENT. Silva of North America, VIII, 35. 



