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remained until his death, December 18, 1911. The garden was pre- 

 sented to the French government for a scientific station. 



Bornet's scientific reputation rests mainly on his work on algae and 

 lichens. He was a skilful artist and a -vvTiter whose style was remark- 

 able for its clearness and elegance as is shown by the now classical 

 works, Etudes Phycologiques, 1878, and Notes Algologiques, 1876- 

 1880. In the Recherches sui la Fecondation des Floridees, 1867, 

 the sexuality of the red seaweeds was first demonstrated. In the 

 works above named Bornet and Thuret had worked in collaboration. 

 Bornet also published a number of important papers on algae in- 

 cluding several on Nostochineae. His most important work on 

 lichens was Recherches sur les Gonidies des Lichens, 1873, an impor- 

 tant contribution in support of the algo-fungal nature of lichens. 

 While living at Antibes he became interested in the question of 

 hybridization as illustrated by the native species of Cistus. His 

 notes on this subject were edited by Gard and issued posthumously. 



Bornet was elected a member of the Academic des Sciences in 1886, 

 and he was an honorarj^ member of many foreign societies. He was 

 a person of great modesty, possessed of wide information on many 

 subjects, and in conversation very witty and sprightly. For many 

 years his house on the Quai de la Tournelle, opposite Notre Dame, 

 was the resort of botanists from all parts of the world. 



W. G. Farlow. 



GEORGE JARVIS BRUSH (1831-1912) 



Fellow in Class II, Section 1, 1871. 



George Jarvis Brush, the distinguished mineralogist and educator, 

 was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 15th, 1831. He was 

 the seventh in line of descent from Thomas Brush, one of the early 

 .settlers of Long Island. The father of Mr. Brush was Jarvis Brush, 

 and his mother, Sarah Keeler; the father was a successful commission 

 and importing merchant. He retired from active business wliile still 

 a young man, having accumulated a sufficient fortune, and at the 

 same time (1835) moved his family to Danbury, Connecticut, where 

 they lived until 1841. He then returned to Brooklyn. 



