JOHN CAREY.! 
JOHN CAREY — of whom few of the botanists of our day 
can have a personal remembrance — died at Blackheath, near 
London, March 26 ult.,in the 83d year of his age. He came 
from London to the United States, in the spring of 1830, ac- 
companied by three young and motherless children and by his 
brother, Samuel T. Carey, who was also addicted to botany. 
Both, we believe, were Fellows of the Linnean Society, and 
were near friends of Thomas Bell, afterwards the presi- 
dent of that society, who also lived to a good old age, dying 
only a few weeks earlier than the subject of this notice. 
Samuel T. Carey remained in the city of New York, in active 
business, and so was only an amateur botanist. His brother 
John went into the country, first to Towanda, in the northern 
part of Pennsylvania, then to Bellows Falls, Vermont, where, 
giving much of his leisure to botanical pursuits, he resided 
until the year 1836, when he removed to New York, upon the 
entrance of his sons into Columbia College. He did not 
enter into business, but his administrative talents and great 
worth were so appreciated that he was at various times called 
to very responsible temporary positions. These positions, 
although unsought, were not unwelcome, for no small part of 
the moderate property he had brought from England had 
been lost in investments made through reliance upon the 
honor and probity of defaulting States. 
From the time of his arrival in the United States down to 
the year of his return to England in 1852, most of his leisure 
was given to botany, and much of it in the companionship of 
the present writer, who was generously and greatly assisted 
by him in many critical studies. The proofs of the writer’s 
first botanical book were revised by him, and to the first 
1 American Journal of Science and Arts, 3 ser., xix. 421. (1880.) 
