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University, with a Reprint of the Catalogues of 1674, 1682, and 1700, 

 8vo, 1865, pp. 67. This little book is full of materials interesting to 

 antiquaries and to graduates of the College. 



3. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard College, 8vo, 

 Vol. I., 1873, pp. 618 ; Vol. II., 1881, pp. 557 ; Vol. III., 1885, pp. 

 457. These volumes contain the life-records of the graduates from 

 the first Commencement to that of 1689 (inclusive). They rej^resent 

 an amount of patient industry and successful research almost un- 

 equalled. They contain all that could, or ever can, be learned of such 

 of tlie graduates as were obscure or sublustrous, while they give suc- 

 cinct and com^jlete biographies of such of the list as were eminent in 

 their time, few of whom have elsewhere Lives that are easily acces- 

 sible or readable. The work done in these volumes could not have 

 been better done, nor at a much later period could it have been done 

 at all, so rapidly are records and traditions of earlier generations pass- 

 ing out of sight and fading fi-om memory in our fast age. Mr. Sibley 

 has left valuable materials for the continuation of his work, for which 

 he has provided in the testamentary disposition by which his property 

 will ultimately come into the possession of the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society. 



EDWARD TUCKERMAN. 



On the 15th of March last, the Academy lost one of the older and 

 more distinguished members of the botanical section, the Lichenologist, 

 Edward Tuckerman. 



He was born in Boston, December 7, 1817, was the eldest son of a 

 Boston merchant of the same name and of Sophia (May) Tuckerman. 

 He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, whence, in 

 obedience to his father's choice rather than his own, he went to Union 

 College at Schenectady. Entering as a Sophomore, he took his B. A. 

 degree in 1837. He then entered the Harvard Law School, took his 

 degree in 1839, and remained in residence in Cambridge for a year or 

 two longer. In the year 1841 he went to Germany and Scandinavia, 

 going as far north as Upsala, devoting himself, as in a subsequent 

 visit, to philosophical, historical, and botanical studies. On his return, 

 in September, 1842, he made, with the writer of this notice, a botanical 

 excursion to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, with which he 

 was already familiar. At the close of that or early in the following 

 year he took up his residence at Union College, proceeded to the 

 M. A. degree, and there prepared and privately published one of the 

 smaller, but more noteworthy, of his botanical papers. 



