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that he has done from first to last is his own — his papers being 

 a presentation of his own good judgment. His name is indissol- 

 ubly linked with American Mycology — great as the strides, and 

 changes in altitude in the future may be. His name has been 

 associated by Peck, Saccardo, Massee, and Ellis, with several 

 interesting species, for example, Boletus Morgani, Polyporus 

 Morgani, Lepiota Morgani, Russula Morgani, Cantharellus Mor- 

 gani. Hypoxylon Morgani, Feziza Morgani. 



He did not attend scientific meetings, and therefore person- 

 ally he was unknown to most of the botanists — not so of course 

 his work extensive and valuable, which is not dependent on per- 

 sonal contact. 



No portrait has been published, though we were insistent on 

 having a good photograph, — which then after some reluctance 

 he promised at an early opportune time. But it proved too late, 

 and consequently I will use one of the pictures I made for my own 

 pleasure as I kodaked him at his own home, standing on the 

 porch with the members of his family, Mrs. Morgan being en the 

 right. From this charming point he had a view for miles over 

 the rich and beautiful Miami Valley. I have asked Mrs. Morgan 

 for a brief outline of her husband's life and the following points 

 she has kindlv furnished me : 



Andrew Frice Morgan, born at Centerville, Ohio, 27th Octo- 

 ber, 1836, son of Harrison S. Morgan and Lydia Ann Newman; 

 died of pneumonia at his b.ome, Preston, Ohio, Octoi:er 19, 1907. 

 Incineration by the Cincinnati Cremation Co., October 21, 1907. 



He began the study of Botany while a teacher in the schools 

 of Dayton, Ohio. Was first assistant then principal in the ward 

 schools, afterward Professor of Mathematics in the Dayton High 

 School. From this position he went into the army, first in the 

 84th Ohio Infantry — carrying a stoutly bound copy of Gray's 

 Manual in his knapsack — and again as First Lieutenant in the 

 Fourth Independent Battalion O. V. C. Being a member of the 

 Dayton Light Guards he was a well drilled soldier and did a great 

 deal of work drilling volunteers. At the close of his army service 

 he was very ill with typhoid fever and to avoid confinement in 

 the school room traveled in the states of Wisconsin and Minne- 

 sota representing the school book firm of Wilson Hinkle & Co. for 

 seven years. A partial paralysis closed his career. He could 

 neither read nor write for two years. In 1870 he married Laura 

 M. Vail of Pomfret, Vermont, and when he quit traveling for the 

 school book firm he went to his wife's old home midway between 

 the White and Green mountain ranges. Here he began his first 

 study of fungi. He procured a copy of Hymenomvcetes Europaei 

 by Elias Fries. I find this written on the blank leaf of the well 

 worn volume, "Cost $8.25. Imported by Scribner Wei ford & 

 Armstrong. New York City, June 2, 1876." He identified the 

 Lichens with the aid of Tuckerman of Amherst, Mass. and 



