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months we kept house together in Honolulu, nnd from the 

 first (lay to tlie last he was the same modest, retirhig, hard- 

 working, unsellish, eonscientious man. Thoroughly alive to 

 all the beauties and wondei's of Nature there surrounding 

 him, he often wrote home that he enjoyed every moment, 

 and often indeed have I seen him in perfect ecstasy over the 

 discovery of some new plant after a hard climb up some 

 island precipice. 



With his rich collections he returned to Cambridge, and 

 was soon appointed Dr. Gray's assistant, and afterwards 

 Instructor in Botany in Harvard College Besides the work 

 of arranging the Thayer Herbarimu and constantly aiding 

 Dr. Gray in preparing material for his classes, and revising 

 proofs of his two botanical manuals, — a work more than 

 enough for a common man, a work indeed that no common 

 man could do, — he worked steadily in liis spare hours, often 

 late into the night, on his Hawaiian collections. The many 

 thousand specimens were deternuned and labelled and pai'tly 

 distributed; his "Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants," which 

 has given him a good botanical reputation, was published by 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, (of which he 

 was unanimously elected a fellow on the very evening of his 

 decease) ; a most complete Flora of the islands was pub- 

 lished in part by the Essex Institute ; several other botanical 

 memoirs were in hand, and you all know that his labor here 

 in our herbarium and in our woi'k as a Society, was not 

 hght. 



His interest in this Society never waned. Often on ship- 

 board, lying on deck at night, have we talked over this 

 matter, and he was full of suggestions, many of which have 

 since been carried out ; others, such as a permanent door- 

 keeper for the Museum on exhibition days, guide-books to 

 the various collections, and a fire-]>roof floor for the main 

 story of this building, will be perhaps in time. He was 

 always ])resent at the Council meetings, and his advice was 

 always sensible and respected. 



As a result of our Hawaiian explorations, five new genera 



