WILLIAM STARLING SULLIVANT. 375 
thousand dollars and immense pains were expended) are 
simply exquisite and wholly unrivaled; and the scientific 
character is acknowledged to be worthy of the setting. 
Within the last few years most of the time which Mr. Sulli- 
vant could devote to science has been given to the preparation 
of a second or supplementary volume of the Icones. The 
plates, it is understood, are completed, the descriptions in a 
good degree written out, and the vernal months in which his 
mortal life closed were to have been devoted to the printing. 
The Manual of North American Mosses was speedily to 
follow. 
He was remarkably young for his years, so that the hopes 
and expectations in which we were indulging seemed reason- 
able. But in January, not far from his seventieth birthday, 
he was prostrated by pneumonia, from the consequences of 
which, after some seeming convalescence, he died upon the 
last day of April. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Caroline E. (Sut- 
ton) Sullivant, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil- 
dren, to inherit a stainless and honored name, and to cherish 
a noble memory. 
In personal appearance and carriage, no less than in all the 
traits of an unselfish and well-balanced character, Mr. Sulli- 
vant was a fine specimen of a man. He had excellent busi- 
ness talents, and was an exemplary ¢itizen; he had a refined 
and sure taste, and was an accomplished draughtsman. But 
after having illustrated his earlier productions with his own 
pencil, he found that valuable time was to be gained by em- 
ploying a trained artist. He discovered in Mr. A. Schrader 
a hopeful draughtsman, and he educated him to the work, 
with what excellent results the plates of the Icones and of 
his other works abundantly show. As an investigator he 
worked deliberately, slowly indeed and not continuously, but 
perseveringly. Having chosen his particular department, he 
gave himself undeviatingly to its advancement. His works 
have laid such a broad and complete foundation for the study 
of bryology in this country, and are of such recognized im- 
portance everywhere, that they must always be of classical 
authority ; in fact, they are likely to remain for a long time 
