CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. VS ^^ 



workers in the Gray Herbarium that Femald is becoming a common 



scold. 



woodshed 



It is to be hoped that this will be done before he gets to the Bronxran 

 position of seeing nothing good in the works of outsiders. If he 'haH 

 ever given a tenth of the time to any genus that I gave to Astragalus he 

 would have done mucji better work than he ever has done hitherto, ^anH 

 it is not becoming to make such stupid remarks, and does not enhance 



his reputation for fairness. 



Harvard is not addicted to blundering, but Ternald seems an excep- 



tion to the rule. In naming 



Astragalus stra- 



galus he makes two "very'* serious blunders. The name stragalus should 

 not be used because it does not correspond phonetically with the genus 



know 



ch 



tra 



galensLS, but has little authority for using a noun as an adjective, and 

 none in a way that means nothing. ,Femald recently seems afflicted with 

 that disease known as "caput intumescens/' doubtless caused 'by too 

 much gazing on the sun of his own personality till he has a case of snow- 

 blindnes^s. I fail to see where he has any justification for it 'for his v.^ofk 

 on Salvia and Antennaria he should be ashamed of, and his incapacity to 



specific limitations is notorious. Of late years he has shown one 



discern 



from monoCTa 



nothing about in the field. Astragalus 



o"'-*-^^ '^'-^^^ 



sophomoric attempt at alliteration. As to tlie validity of his species T 

 make no comment except to say that it appears too near my species. Tor 

 the leaves of my species vary so that the leaves are either sessile orlong- 



petioled. 



THE BRANDEGEES 



Townshend Stith Brandegee. Class of 1870 Yale Scientific cou'^st, 

 bom in Berlin, Conn., Feb. 16, 1843. Son of Elishama Bandegee and 

 Florence Stith Brandegee, who had 8 children, Charles, Florence 'S., 

 Robert B., Emily, Katherine, Henry (died at Helena, Mont.), Arthur, 

 Edward N. (Yale 1886). Elishama, who was born at Berlin, Conn., 

 died there in 1884, and was a Doctor who graduated from Yale 'in '1833, 

 and Yale Medical school in 1838. Florence Stith was bom at Florence, 

 Italy, whose father was consul at Tunis. She was a Boiling from Peters- 

 burg, Va. 



T. S- Brandegee was a private in Co. G., 1st Conn, regiment, in the 

 Rebellion. He entered Sheffield in Civil Eng. On May ^29, 1889, he 

 married Katherine Layne Curran, a graduate of the Medical Dept. -oT the 

 California State University in 1878, She was a daughter of Marshall 

 Boiling LajTie. Brandegee was a civil engineer of the A.T. &-S. F. R. R, 

 with headquarters at Canon City, Colo. Also with ihe '.Denver '& 'South- 



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