result the work of the closing years of his career are of 
little lasting value. Until the end, he kept working and 
writing. Most of his manuscript, his editing, and his 
proot-reading was accomplished in near-blindness. He 
maintained a warm personal correspondence with his 
many scientific friends until his peaceful death at his home 
in Columbus, Ohio, October 25, 1889 at the age of 88. 
‘lo one he wrote: “‘about publications of mine, you have 
more titles than [ know of, for I have forgotten many 
and many are not worth much. ’’ 
Lesquereux’s pioneer work in American paleobotany 
will long be remembered, and in no less degree will his 
‘areful study of American mosses. Far more of a chal- 
lenge is his untiring work of high order in the face of 
trying circumstances and pathetic loss of faculty at an 
age of greatest productivity. 
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