EDWARD TUCKERMAN. 497 
he was fond of antiquarian and genealogical researches. He 
privately published (without date) a handsome edition of Josse- 
lyn’s “New England’s Rarities Discovered,” with copious crit- 
ical annotations, of 134 pages, including an introduction of 27 
pages, which contains a biography of Josselyn and a sketch of 
the earlier sources of our knowledge of New England plants 
and of some of the people who made them known.! Among 
them is a biographical notice of Manasseh Cutler, one of the 
very first elected Fellows of this Academy, the earliest bo- 
tanical contributor to its Memoirs, — pastor, naturalist, and 
statesman, the builder of New England in Ohio, probably the 
originator of the Dane Resolutions in Congress,—a man 
whose name deserves larger remembrance than it has yet re- 
ceived. 
Professor Tuckerman was elected into this Academy in May, 
1845. He was one of the corporate members of the National 
Academy of Sciences at Washington, and an honorary member 
of several of the learned societies and academies of Europe. 
He was still young when Nuttall dedicated to him the genus 
Tuckermania, founded upon one of the handsomer of the 
Californian Composite, which is retained as a subgenus. For 
one who did not attain the age of sixty-seven, his publications 
span a remarkably wide interval. It is said that he contrib- 
uted several short articles on antiquarian topics to the “ Mer- 
eantile Journal,” in the year 1832; also that, in 1832 and 
1833, he assisted the late Mr. Samuel G. Drake in the pre- 
paration of his “ Book of the Indians ” and “ Indian Wars.” 
Then, between 1834 and 1841, he contributed to the ‘“ New 
York Churchman” no less than fifty-four articles, under the 
title of “ Notitia Literaria ” and “ Adversaria,” upon points in 
history, biography, and theology. His latest botanical article 
was contributed to the “ Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club” in 1884. A little later, possibly, are some of his con- 
tributions to the “Church Eclectic,” mostly pseudonymous, 
— critical notices of recent theological works. He was a 
keen critic, and very independent in his judgments. He had 
1 It appears that this was a contribution to the fourth volume of the 
* Archeologia Americana,” published in 1860. 
