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to the remarkable one of Dr. Harris, is counted as among the best fruits 

 of that survey. The two dassics of New England botany are Dr. 

 Bigelow's well-known Flora and Mr. Emerson's treatise on the Trees 

 and Shrubs of Massachusetts, — both side-issues from active profes- 

 sional life ; both unusually successful in the combination of popular 

 with scientific treatment of their subjects, and in the extent of their 

 influence in this community, as also in the appreciation accorded to 

 them by scientific men. 



In his later years Mr. Emerson re-edited his Report, illustrated it 

 fully, and at much personal cost, by excellent plates in chromo-lithog- 

 raphy, from designs by Mr, Isaac Sprague (who had furnished the 

 few outline plates of the original edition), and published it in two 

 large octavo volumes, — volumes which are thought worthy to stand 

 by the side of those of Michaux. 



It should here be recorded, moreover, that it was under Mr. Emer- 

 son's recommendation and influence that the late Mr. James Arnold 

 made the bequest upon wliich the Arnold Arboretum is founded. 



HON. JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, LL.D. 



The Hon. John Chipman Gray, LL. D., died in Boston on the 

 3d of March, 1881, in his eighty-eighth year, having been born in 

 Salem, Mass., Dec. 26, 1793. He was graduated at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, in 1811, in the class with Edward Everett, of whom he 

 was the chum at Cambridge, and a life-long friend. He studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar ; but, inheriting an ample for- 

 tune from his father, he did not pursue the practice of his profes- 

 sion. He was early engaged in public life, and, for a long term ol 

 years, did excellent service to the State, as a member of both branches 

 of the Legislature, successively, and as a member of the Executive 

 Council of the Commonwealth. He was deeply interested in agri- 

 cultural pursuits, and was for many years President of the old Massa- 

 chusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. Mr. Gray was a 

 great reader, and an able and instructive writer, contributing many 

 articles to magazines and journals, and leaving a volume of valuable 

 essays to bear witness to his literary accomplishments. 



