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is the wife of Captain Pedro Duarte, of the Spanish Army, who served 

 as military aid to the late Spanish governor of Guam. Don Pedro is 

 about to resign his commission in order to remain on the island with his 

 wife and little ones. 



Back to the ship for the night. 



[to be continued.] 



FRANK HALL KNOWLTON, M. S,, Ph. D. 



By Charles Louis Pollard.* 



DURING the five years that have elapsed since the foundation of 

 The Pj^nt World there have been changes both in the editorial 

 staff and in the business management. That the journal has, 

 however, kept its general policy unaltered throughout this period is due 

 to the practical judgment and sagacity of the man who initiated the 

 idea of a magazine of popular botany, who later secured the assistance 

 necessary to carry the project into effect, and who has since served as 

 editor-in-chief of the journal thus established — Dr. Frank H. Knowl- 

 ton. 



In common with many of the scientists at the National Capital, 

 Mr. Knowlton can boast of a long line of New England ancestry. He 

 was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1860, and spent the early years of 

 his life on his father's farm, ultimately preparing himself for Middle- 

 bury College, which he entered in 1880. Like most boys he evinced a 

 taste for natural history, which became stronger and full of definite 

 purpose as his education advanced. He began to make a collection of 

 plants of the vicinity of Brandon, and accumulated a small herbarium, 

 which ultimately passed into the collection of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, at that time kept distinct from the herbarium of the Department 

 of Agriculture. Mr. Knowlton also did much work in ornithology at this 

 period, though he had less opportunity of forming a collection of birds. 



Being graduated from Middlebury College, with the degree of B. 

 S., in 1884, he received an appointment as Aid in the National Museum 

 at Washington, and thus took up the career of a professional botanist. 

 During the succeeding five years he cared for the museum collections, 

 being promoted, in 1887, to an assistant curatorship, and receiving the 

 additional degree of M. S. from his home college. Dr. George Vasey 

 was at that time botanist of the Department of Agriculture ; and Mr. 



*The portrait of Dr. Knowlton, which we had hoped to present with this issue, 

 could not be prepared in season, and will therefore be included in a later number. — 

 Pub. Plant World. 



