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to the East, coming via the Panama route. On reaching the Isthmus 

 he was prostrated with Chagres fever, and during his sickness his pack 

 mules were stolen, and with them disappeared the large botanical col- 

 lection which he had made in California. 



Soon after his return he established himself in the drug business 

 at Louisville, Kentucky, where in 1852 he manied Sophie Roemer, who 

 sur\dves him. In 1856 his health became such that he was obliged to 

 find a more southern climate, and he spent the following year in the 

 vicinity of Orizaba, Mexico, and the collections which he made at that 

 time gave us almost the first botanical knowledge of that section, which 

 has been visited by so man 3^ botanists during the last fifteen years. On 

 his return to this country in 1867, he located in Mobile, where he estab- 

 lished himself in the drug business, which he continued until his re- 

 tirement in 1892, his firm being at that time the oldest drug firm in the 

 city. At the outbreak of the civil war, he, together with Dr. F. J. F. 

 Rohmer, established a laboratory for the preparation of medical sup- 

 plies for the Confederate army. 



In 1880 he made the investigation of the forests of the Gulf region 

 for the 10th census. In 1883 he made collections of field and forest 

 products of the Louisville and Nash^dlle Railroad region for the New 

 Orleans Exposition, and in doing that work made the finest collection 

 of woods which had ever been brought together in the United States. 

 In 1884 and 1885 he had charge of the Alabama exhibit at New Orleans. 

 He was an honorary member of the Ohio and the Louisiana State 

 Pharmaceutical Associations, a member of the American Pharmaceuti- 

 cal Association, a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, and a fellow of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. From the time of its organization he was 

 an active and leading member of the American Forestry Congress, and 

 attended its meetings more regularlj^ than those of any other associa- 

 tion. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by the State Univer- 

 sity of Alabama. 



After his retirement from active business in 1892, he was engaged 

 for a number of years in a systematic investigation of the forest trees 

 of the South for the Department of Agricultrure, and was busied more 

 or less constantly with that work until 1900. During that time he gave 

 special attention to the pines, and in 1896 published an exhaustive 

 review of the "Timber Pines of the Southern United States," which was 

 issued as Bulletin 13, of the Division of Forestry. 



During all his long residence in Alabama, he found his rest and 

 recreation in studying the flora of the State, storing away his collec- 

 tions and notes until he should be able to make them a valuable con- 



