MOSES ASHLEY CURTIS. Bs: 
1860; the other, a catalogue of all the plants of the State, in 
1867. This includes the lower Cryptogamia, especially the 
Fungi, of which he enumerates almost 2400 species, while the 
phenogamous plants are less than 1900. All our associate’s 
work was marked by ability and conscientiousness. With a 
just appreciation both of the needs of the science and of what 
he could best do under the circumstances, when he had ex- 
hausted the limited field in Phenogamous botany within his 
reach, he entered upon the inexhaustible ground of mycology, 
which had been neglected in this country since the time of 
Schweinitz. In this difficult department he investigated and 
published a large number of new species, as well as determined 
the old ones, and amassed an ample collection, the preservation 
of which is most important, comprising as it does the speci- 
mens, drawings, and original notes which are to authenticate 
his work. By his unremitting and well-directed labors, filling 
the intervals of an honored and faithful professional life, he 
has richly earned the gratitude of the present and ensuing 
generations of botanists. Several years ago he prepared 
drawings of the edible /ungi of the country, with a view to 
making them better known in an accessible and popular pub- 
lication ; but he was unable to find a publisher. He was much 
impressed with their importance as a source of food. During 
the hardships of the Rebellion he turned his knowledge of 
them to useful account for his family and neighborhood ; and 
he declared that he could have supported a regiment upon 
excellent and delicious food which was wasting in the fields 
and woods around him. 
