544 EDWARD TUCKERMAN. 



As to the vexed question in Lichenology, which came to him rather 

 late and seemed to threaten the stability of his work, it was most natu- 

 ral that, at his time of life, he did not take kindly to the algo-fungal 

 notion of Lichens, and that he was convinced of its falsity by ques- 

 tionable evidence. 



Professor Tuckerman was much more than an excellent specialist. 

 Happily, he did not become such until he had laid a good founda- 

 tion, for the time, in general systematic botany ; and his early studies 

 show that he was a man of scholarly culture over an unusually wide 

 range. He was at home in the leading modern languages ; he wrote 

 Latin with reasonable facility, and botanical Latin remarkably well ; 

 he had given serious attention to law, divinity, philosophy, and his- 

 tory ; and he was fond of antiquarian and genealogical researches. 

 He privately published (without date) a handsome edition of Josse- 

 lyn's " New England's Rarities Discovered," with copious critical an- 

 notations, of 134 pages, including an introduction of 27 pages, which 

 contains a biography of Josselyn, and a sketch of the earlier sources 

 of our knowledge of New England plants and of some of the people 

 who made them known.* Among them is a biographical notice of 

 Manasseh Cutler, one of the very first elected Fellows of this Acad- 

 emy, the earliest botanical contributor to its Memoirs, — pastor, natural- 

 ist, and statesman, the builder of New England in Ohio, probably the 

 originator of the Dane Resolutions in Congress, — a man whose name 

 deserves larger remembrance than it has yet received. 



Professor Tuckerman was elected into this Academy in May, 1845. 

 He was one of the corporate members of the National Academy of 

 Sciences at Washington, and has been chosen into several of the 

 learned societies and academies of Europe. He was still young when 

 Nuttall dedicated to him the genus Tuchermania, founded upon one of 

 the handsomer of Californian Compositte, which holds as a subgenus. 

 For one who did not attain the age of sixty-seven, his publications 

 span a remarkably wide interval. It is said that he contributed sev- 

 eral short articles on antiquarian topics to the Mercantile Journal in 

 the year 1832. Also that, in 1832 and 1833, he assisted the late Mr. 

 Samuel G. Drake in the preparation of his " Book of the Lidians " 

 and "Indian Wars." Then, between 1834 and 1841, he contributed 

 to the New York Churchman no less than fifty-four articles, under the 

 titles of " Notitia Literaria " and " Adversaria," ujwn points in his- 



* It appears that tliis was a contribution to the fourth volume of the 

 Archaeologia Americana, published in 1860. 



