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The following table iiulicates the nuinber and dates of Satnrday lec- 

 tures since 1882 : 



1882. 

 1883. 



D:it(> <if tirst and last Ifcti 



March 11, April 29 



January 13, March 31. 



1884 ■ Januarys, April 26 .. 



1885 I p'ebruary 7, May 2 



1 886 i March 6, May 8 



1887 : March 12, May 7 



1888 j February 18, May 5. . . 



1889 ' March 9, May 11 



18'JO I February 1, April 3... 



1891 



1892 



1893 



March 23, May 13. 



No. of 



lectures. 



Total 



NECROLOGY. 



Dr. George Vasej-, botanist of the Department of Agriculture and 

 honorary curator of the Department of Botany in the U. S. Xational 

 Museum, died on March 4, 1893. Dr. Vasey was born on February 28, 

 1822, at Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He gra<luated from Berk- 

 shire Medical College, at Pittsfleld, Mass., in 1848; was appointed bot- 

 anist of the Department of Agriculture in April, 1872. He also held 

 the position of honorary curator of botany in the U. S. National 

 Museum. His principal work has been upon grasses, and among other 

 papers he published a Descriptive Catalogue of I>rative Forest Trees of 

 the United States, 1876; Grasses of the United States: a Synopsis of 

 the Tribes with Descriptions of the Genera, 1883; Agricultural Grasses 

 of the United States, 1884; Descriptive Catalogue of the tirasses of 

 the United States, 1885; Eeport of Investigations of Grasses of the 

 Arid Kegions, two parts, 1880-'87; Grasses of the South, 1887; Agri- 

 cultural Grasses and Forage Plants of the United States, a revised 

 edition, with 114 plates of agricultural grasses, 1889 ; Illustrations of 

 2s"orth American Grasses: Vol. i. Grasses of the Southwest, 100 plates 

 with descriptions, 1891 ; Vol. ii. Part i of the same, Grasses of the 

 Pacific Slope and Alaska, 1892; Monograph of the Grasses of the United 

 States and British America (Vol. in, No. 1, Contributions from LT. S- 

 National Herbarium), 1892. Dr. Vasey was a member of the Biological 

 and Geographical Societies of Washington, and a Fellow of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science. He was appointed 

 delegate from the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian 

 Institution to the Botanical Congress in Genoa in September, 1893. 



At a meeting of the officers of the U. S. National Museum held on 

 March G, 1893, the following minute and resolution were adopted: 



In the death of Dr. George Vasey the National Mnseuui has htst a faithful and etti- 

 cient oliicer and the science of hotauy an able and indefatigable worker. As bota- 



