1808.] 155 [Brigliam. 



were added to the flora, one of which was dedicated to him 

 under tlie name of Hesperomannia, and has been engraved 

 for the next part of our Memoirs, while of new species of 

 flowering pLmts, no less than sixty-seven or more than twelve 

 per cent, of the entire ph^enogamous Hawaiian flora Avere 

 discovered. His published works, besides a number of re- 

 views in the American Naturalist, were : — 



On some Hawaiian Crania ami Boni-s. [Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



Vol. X, p. 22a.] 

 On the present condition of Kilauea ami Mauna Loa. \_lhid. Vol. X, 



p. 229 ] 

 Denudation on the Hawaiian Islands. \^U)ul. Vol. X, ]>. 232.] 

 Revision of the Genus Schiedea and some of the Rutacefe. \_Ibkl. 



Vol. X, p. 309.] 

 Description of the Crater .of Haleakala. \_lbid. Vol. XI, p. 112.] 

 Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants. [Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and 



Sciences, Voh VII, p. 143.] 

 Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. [Proc. Essex Institute, Vol. V.] 



The last has not been completed, and a number of other 

 valuable and interesting memoirs remain unfinished. 



Early in October the severer symptoms of Avhat he had 

 considered a mere cold, compelled him most unwillingly to 

 give up his college classes, temporarily, as we all hoped ; but 

 the worst form of pulmonary comidaint had gone too far to 

 be stopped, and although his friends all hoped for his recov- 

 ery, he passed away jjeacefully on the evening of November 

 11th, after some days of great pain and anguish. 



Sad as it seems to us, in our blind interpretations of Provi- 

 dence, that a life so full of promise, so pure, so true, a life so 

 short and yet so full of results, should be cut short, yet the 

 example of this life, called so closely to view by the angel of 

 death, cannot but animate and encourage many others ; and 

 the nobly proportioned column, whose base and lower shaft 

 alone we see on earth, yet raises its capital above the veiling 

 clouds, a monument and beacon we mav well follow. 



