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successor. But vainly should avc look; where should we 

 find in all the years the best of our number could show, a 

 single year so full of hard work, conscientious, unselfisli, self- 

 sacrificing struggle that the world might know more, and 

 the cause of science be advanced ? 



In his earliest youth Horace IMann drew in from his fath- 

 er's careful teachings the love of Nature, which has since 

 been his constant joy. Often would he softly open the door 

 of liis father's study, and come silently to liis lather s side, 

 waiting for the leisure which would give him some of the 

 marvellous stories al)^ut the earth and its inhabitants, which 

 in his mind took the ]ilace of the unrealities of fairyland so 

 dear to most children. 



Chemistry was the delight of his boyhood, and his fatlier's 

 house contained a laboratory, in which lie spent many an 

 hour, often to the great anxiety of his family, who dreaded 

 the usual results of boyish experiments with powerful re- 

 agents. Inanimate matter did not satisfy him, and after 

 much thought, although opposed by most of his friends, who 

 wished him to receive a collegiate education, he determined 

 to devote himself to the study of Nature, entering Professor 

 Agassiz' school as a student of zoology an<l geology. This 

 was at the time Avhen the present Musemn was recently 

 built, and the hard manual lal)or of moving and an-anging 

 heavy specimens, which he so readily undertook, seriously 

 affected his health. He was at this time also deej)ly inter- 

 ested in conchology, and most especially in botany, and it 

 was from this latter interest that the companionship and 

 friendship commenced, which for the last four or five years 

 have so closely united us. When Dr. Asa Gray was told that 

 I was soon to visit the Hawaiian Islands, he asked me to 

 collect the very peculiar flora of that group, and suggested 

 the propriety of asking Horace ]Mann to accompany me. It 

 was a short notice, but his friends advised him to go, and he 

 joined me in California. From that time, for more than a 

 year we were constant companions, and many a long ride, 

 many a weary walk, did we sliare. For more than six 



