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to 1892, and then he disappeared from botanical literature during the 
last fifteen years of his life. 
As a man, he was very eccentric, being exceedingly diffident and 
having only the one great interest. For the most part he lived alone in 
complete seclusion, with his library and herbarium as his only companions. 
The herbarium was purchased for the “ 
National Herbarium after his death, 
so that the permanent’ record of his 
work has been made available for 
all subsequent students of lichens. 
Although a recluse socially, he was 
very generous in his work for others, 
determining cheerfully hundreds of 
specimens of lichens that were sent 
to him, but brusquely resenting any 
apparent effort to impose upon him. 
he inner flavor of the man may 
be obtained by the following tribute 
he paid to TucKERMAN: 
And here I would pay a last tribute 
to the memory of one to whom, for the 
unbounded liberality of the information 
‘ imparted from 1862 to the time of his 
death, and for his patience under my ’ 
sometimes too great demands upon him, YY. 
I am under such great obligations. *° . / 
Epwarp TUCKERMAN was surpassed by 
none of the botanists of his day in his disinterested love of truth, in the 
patience with which he sought to unravel the difficulties of the most difficult 
of all plants, and in the philosophic spirit with which he labored to trace affini- 
ties and to bring them into natural connection. 

A very interesting account of HENry WILLEY, from which the above 
information was obtained, was published in the Vew ws Standard 
of July 20, 1913, prepared by R. HeBeR Howe, Jr. —J.M 
