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croscopes, and other collections are bequeathed to the 

 State Scientific and Agricultural College, just estab- 

 lished at Columbus, and to the Starlino; Medical Colleo-e 

 founded by his uncle, of which he was himself the Senior 

 Trustee. 



Mr. Sullivant was chosen into the American Academy 

 in the year 1845. He received the honorary degree of 

 Doctor of Laws from Gambier College, in his native 

 State, and was an associate of the principal scientific 

 societies of this country, and of several in Europe. His 

 oldest botanical associates long ago enjoyed the pleasure 

 of bestowing the name of Sullivantia Ohionis upon a 

 very rare and interesting, but modest and neat Saxifra- 

 gaceous plant, wdiich he himself discovered in his native 

 State, on the secluded banks of a tributary of the river 

 which flows by the place where he was born, and where 

 his remains now repose. 



