498 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
sounded in his time the depths of various opinions. But as he 
was born into, so he died, as he had lived, devoutly, in the 
communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church. With some 
interruptions, and of late under increasing infirmities, he yet 
continued his Lichenological studies until within a few weeks 
before the end. Living for a long while in comparative seclu- 
sion, few of our younger botanists can have known him per- 
sonally, or much by correspondence; and most of his old asso- 
ciates and near friends, who knew him best and prized him 
highly for his sterling character, have gone before him. 
