HARPER: BOTANICAL WORK OF Dr. E. W. Hircarp 391 
years, had the pleasure of meeting him at his home in Berkeley 
at the time of the A. A. A.S. meetings last summer, and found him 
somewhat enfeebled by age but wide-awake mentally. He always 
wrote for publication in plain simple language, as free as possible 
from technicalities, and was very modest, sincere and unaffected, 
as befits a great scientist. 
Accounts of his life and work by two of his California col- 
leagues were published in Science for March 31, 1916, and reprinted 
with some additions, two portraits, and a bibliography of over 
250 titles, in the University of California Chronicle, vol. 18, no. 2 
(this also issued in June as a separately paged pamphlet with 50 
pages). Other recent biographical sketches are in the Experiment 
Station Record (Washington) for March, 1916, and the Geo- 
graphical Review (New York) for May. The last contains refer- 
ences to a few earlier ones. 
COLLEGE PoINT, New YORK 
