330 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Pennsylvania. The work done in the botanical line may 

 here be mentioned : 



1. "The Flora of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania," in 

 conjunction with Dr. William Herbst, the eminent mycolo- 

 gist, who is still a resident of the County. The greater 

 part of the Lehigh collection is deposited in the Herbarium 

 of the Philadelphia Botanical Club at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



2. " The Grasses of Philadelphia," 1898. These were 

 contributed to Dr. Thomas C. Porter's Pennsylvania Her- 

 barium at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. 



3. " The cataloguing of the Bartonian Collection when 

 deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences by the 

 Philosophical Society in 1897." This collection contains 

 the plants collected by Pursh on his memorable trips from 

 Philadelphia to the high mountains of North Carolina, and 

 to the Great Lakes and the White Mountains, in 1806 

 and 1807. 



Professor Krout is a member of the Biological Society 

 and the Pennsylvania Botanical Society at the University. 

 At the Academy of Natural Sciences he is a member of the 

 Botanical Section, Microscopical and Biological Sections, 

 Philadelphia Botanical Club, the Pennsylvania Mycological 

 Society, and is now President of the Philadelphia Moss 

 Chapter. 



EDSON SEWELL BASTIN. 



Edson Sewell Bastin was born Mav 29, 1843, in 



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Axaukee Countv, Wisconsin. His father was one of the 



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pioneer farmers of what was then a new territory, a hardy, 

 industrious man, with little more than a district school 

 'duration, but well endowed with hard sense and pluck. 



