classes of plant life than any other American botanist. Un- 

 questionably he was without equal in his knowledge of the cryp- 

 togams of the southern states. 



Cranmore Wallace is remembered in South Carolina as a 

 churchman but the herbarium which he collected and gave to 

 the Museum entitles him to the interest of botanists. Very 

 little seems to be known of his life. He was born at Atworth, 

 New Hampshire, February 27, 1802.' As a young man he taught 

 school for several years in Boston and then came to South Car 

 olina to take charge of a school at Cheraw. From the Journal 

 of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South 

 Carolina we learn further that he was a candidate for orders in 

 1834, was ordained in 1836 and became assistant minister of 

 St. Andrew's Parish and teacher in the South Carolina Academy. 

 In 1839 he was made rector of St. James Church, James Island, 

 and principal of the South Carolina Society's Male Academy. 

 He came to Charleston as minister-in-charge of St. Johns Chapel 

 in 1841, only to remove that same year to St. Johns Parish, 

 Berkeley, where he remained as rector until 1848. He then 

 returned to Charleston to become minister of St. Stephen 's Chapel 

 and there stayed until his death, February 3, 1860. He was for 

 nineteen years secretary of the Convention and for many years, 

 manager of the Church Home of the diocese. He is described 

 by those who remember him as a tall, spare, grizzled-gray man of 

 quiet and kindly bearing, greatly loved by his people. In Char- 

 leston he lived in a large brick house on Laurens Street. 



The period of Wallace's botanical activity seems to have been 

 during his residence in St. Johns, Berkeley. It is uncertain 

 how large his herbarium originally was, as it has not been well 

 preserved. A large portion has been completely destroyed but 

 three hundred twenty-seven specimens have been saved and 

 placed in the herbarium. A few more still may be rescued. 

 Practically all of these were collected in St. Johns, Berkeley, 

 and along the Cooper River in 1846 and 1847, years when Rav- 

 enel was working on the collections for his Catalogue. It would 

 be interesting to learn what influence the older man had upon 

 Ravenel. That they worked together is shown by an occasional 

 specimen from Wallace in the Ravenel herbarium, while Ravenel's 



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