50 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Asheville, North Carolina, July 17, 1901. Although most of his life 

 was spent in the calling of a druggist, jet Dr. Mohr devoted much of 

 his time to the study of plants, and it is chiefly as a botanist that he is 

 known to the scientific world. He came to the United States in 1848, 

 having previously traveled to South America. He stopped first in 

 Cincinnati, but early the next 3'ear started for California. In 1857 he 

 settled at Mobile, Alabama, where he was engaged in the drug busi- 

 ness for many years. After making numerous smaller contributions, 

 he finally gave his entire private herbarium, comprising some 20,000 

 specimens, to the Smithsonian Institution, the cryptogamic plants hav- 

 ing come as a gift about two years before his death, and the flowering 

 plants as a bequest. This collection has now been installed and is 

 accessible to students of Southern plants, in which it is especially rich. 

 Dr. Mohr was the author of various botanical papers, but his crown- 

 ing work was Plant Life of Alabama, which was published posthu- 

 mously. It was the one regret of his last days not to see this work 

 finished, but he corrected all of the proofs and died only two weeks 

 before the volume was issued. Personally Dr. Mohr was a charming 

 and lovable man. 



