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John Lewis Russell, who died at Salem on the 7th of June last, 

 was the son of Colonel John and Eunice (Hunt) Kussell, and was born 

 at Salem, December 2, 1808. He entered Harvard University in the 

 year 182-i, was graduated in 1828, and took the master's degree in 

 1836. He studied for the ministry, was in due course licensed to 

 preach, and was settled over Congregational Churches in Chelmsford, 

 Brattleborough, and Hingham. But for the last twenty years of his 

 life he resided in his native town, withdrawing from ministerial labors 

 and directing his attention chiefly to scientific investigation. He was 

 an acute naturalist, mainly a botanist, and by predilection devoted to 

 the Cryptogamia. He was probably, like his former associate, the late 

 William Oakes, of Ipswich, a pui)il of Dr. Osgood of Danvers, or at 

 least drew his inspiration for botany from him, as he in turn did from 

 the Rev. Dr. Culter, of Essex, — the pioneer of the science in Essex 

 County (where his influence has not yet died out, nor indeed in all 

 New lilngland). Mr. Russell was one of the founders of the Essex 

 Natural History Society, which in 1848 became a department of the 

 Essex Institute, of which he continued to be an active member and 

 officer. He served the Boston Horticultural Society for a long series 

 of years as its Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, i. e. as 

 its scientific adviser ; and by his lectures in lyceums and schools he did 

 a good deal for education in this department. For many years he 

 probably knew more of the cryptogamic botany of this part of the 

 country than any one else. He is said to have been the fir.st in this 

 country to use the mici'oscope in the systematic study of lichens. But 

 his means, his correspondence, and his range were limited, so that he 

 did not push his way far ; and, as he has published very little indeed, it 

 is to be feared that his name will not be so long or so widely remem- 

 bered in the annals of the science as it ought. 



His genuine and disinterested devotion to the science of his predilec- 

 tion, manifested in all his life, was shown in the disposition he made of 

 his small property. This he bequeathed (subject to the life-interest of 

 two near relatives), one-third to the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, to promote investigation in respect to the connection of the Fungi 

 with horticulture ; the remainder to the Botanic Garden and Her- 

 barium of Harvard University. His collections he bestowed upon two 

 newly formed local Natural History Societies of his native State, one 

 at Natick, the other at Springfield. 



John Bulkley Perry was born in Richmond, Berkshire County, 

 Mass., December 12, 1825. His early youth was spent in Bur- 



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