858 SAMUEL HENRY BUTCHER. 



Erysipheae of that State. He also wrote the Erysipheae for the North 

 American Pyrenomycetes of ElHs and Everhart, 1892. 



Burrill's work in developing the botanical department of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois was important. When he first became connected 

 with the University he was compelled to perform numerous other 

 duties than those connected with the department of botany and in 

 addition to his other duties he served as the first l^niversity Librarian. 

 He brought his department up from a very primitive condition to its 

 present high standard. He was a conscientious teacher and a good 

 lecturer and was highly esteemed by the many students who worked 

 under him. 



W. G. Farlow. 



SAMUEL HENRY BUTCHER (1850-1910) 



Foreign Honorary JVlcmbor in Class HI, Section 4, 190.5. 



Samuel Henry Butcher, elected Foreign Honorary Member on 

 October 11, 1905, died in London on December 29, 1910. 



To the Greeks — and Butcher was primarily a Grecian — success 

 in life is the attainment of unity through an organic and harmonious 

 development of man's finest powers enlisted in the service of the 

 State. Butcher attained such a imity in an eminent degree and ir^ a 

 career that, for a man of learning, was marked by unusual diversity of 

 interests. There are few men who follow the paths of scholarship 

 that display in equal measure as fine an equilibrium of judgment, 

 sincerity and sympathies, undisturbed by the subtle prejudices of 

 inheritance or local association or by the alluring inducements to self- 

 isolation that so easily beset the man of books. By birth an Irishman, 

 and never ceasing to be identified to some degree with the welfare 

 of his native country, he attained his first distinction in England, rose 

 to eminence in Scotland, his home for nearly one third of his life; 

 while his later years saw him in England, devoted to ever increasing 

 responsibilities in the cause of public education and as the representa- 

 tive of his University in the national council. 



He was born in 1850 in Dublin, the eldest son of Samuel Butcher, 

 Bishop of Meath. He was educated at Marlborough under Dr. 

 Bradley, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1869-1873), where he 



