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title, " Descriptive Catalogue of the North American Hepaticae 

 North of Mexico." This interest in the hepatics continued until 

 1 899 and resulted in the accumulation of a valuable herbarium and 

 library and in the production of over a score of papers. Notable 

 among his contributions in this line are the " Hepaticae Americanae, 

 a series of exsiccatae, issued in part jointly with O. F. Cook, the 

 last decades appearing in 1899 as Nos. XIX-XX. He prepared 

 the text on the Hepaticae for Gray's Manual of Botany, sixth edi- 

 tion, published in 1890, and had also formulated plans for an 

 extended systematic presentation of the North American Hepat- 

 icae. Only the first part of this work was ever completed, appear- 

 ing in June, 1893, as one of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club (Vol. 4, No. 1), under the title, " Index Hepaticarum, Part 



I, Bibliography." 



He was often joined in his collecting trips about Bloomington 

 by Professor Forbes and his associates at the State Laboratory 

 and from this source arose his renewed interest in the arthropods ; 

 especially was he attracted to the study of the spiders and crus- 

 taceans. The extent of this interest is shown by the fact that at 

 the time when he left zoological work in 1890 he had accumulated 

 entomological literature that was quite extensive and had pub- 

 lished several preliminary papers, mostly bibliographical, on the 

 Arachnida, Myriapoda, and Crustacea. 



The marked ability of Professor Underwood to enlist the 

 interests and secure the cooperation of others is strikingly illus- 

 trated during his stay at Bloomington. His field work had taken 

 him to various sections of the state and brought him in contact 

 with men interested in scientific work. Mention might be made of 



r, and others. Largely through 

 associations the organization of the Indiana Academy of 

 Sciences was effected in 1885. He took an active part in the 

 early history of the society, being one of the promoters of the 



organization and one of the first directors of the biological survey 

 of the state. s 



In 1883 he was called to Syracuse University as instructor in 

 geology, zoology, and botany, and three years later was made 

 professor During the seven years of his service at Syracuse we 

 find his labor and interest no less diversified than at Bloomington. 



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