418 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
edition of the “Manual of Botany ’’ Mr. Carey contributed 
the articles on Salix and on Carex, at that time the two most 
difficult parts of the work. In the year 1841 the two made a 
botanical journey together into the mountains of North Caro- 
lina, extending to the Grandfather and to the Roan, though a 
mishap upon the former mountain prevented Mr. Carey from 
reaching the latter. After the establishment of the writer at 
Cambridge, Mr. Carey was his frequent guest and invaluable 
companion. His botanical career may have said to have 
closed in the year 1852. In that year he returned to Eng- 
land alone, having successively lost his aged mother and his 
two younger sons, and seen the elder son happily established 
in marriage. He engaged for several years in business, in 
connection with a friend of his youth, whose daughter he soon 
married, but lost within three years, after the birth of the sec- 
ond of the two children, the solace and comfort and care of a 
serene old age, who survive to perpetuate his name, we trust, 
on that side of the ocean also. Mr. Carey’s first herbarium 
swas destroyed by a calamitous fire in New York, at the time 
of the death of his youngest son. American botanists vied 
with each other in the endeavor to repair this serious loss, and 
another large collection of United States plants was formed, 
critically studied, and carefully annotated. This was pre- 
sented to the Kew Gardens herbarium eleven years ago. 
Several species of United States plants commemorate this 
honored name, among them a Saxifrage, which was discovered 
upon the excursion to the mountains of North Carolina, where 
the survivor of the party re-collected it last summer. The 
almost sole survivor of a botanical circle, of which Torrey was 
the centre, sadly but serenely pays the tribute of this brief 
note to the memory of a near and faithful friend, an accom- 
plished botanist, a genial and warm-hearted and truly good 
man. 
