40 Britton : Professor Underwood and the Garden 



The Scientific Directors of the Garden have adopted the following 

 preamble and resolution : 



Whereas, Death has removed from this Board Professor 

 Lucien Marcus Underwood, our associate from the commence- 

 ment of our organization, and our chairman since the year 1901, 



We therefore desire to record an expression of our profound 

 sorrow at the severance of such happy personal relations as have 

 always existed between the deceased and the members of this 

 Board, and at the untimely ending of a career of such present 

 value and of such great promise. 



We desire also to place upon record our appreciation of the 

 great value to the New York Botanical Garden of the services 

 rendered by Professor Underwood, both in his official capacity, 

 and by virtue of his high and broad scholarship. 



As our chairman, Professor Underwood has always performed 

 his duties in a prompt, studious, and efficient manner, and has 

 shown rare wisdom in conserving the higher interests of the 

 institution and of those served by it. 



As an original investigator in those lines of research which it 

 is the object of the Garden to promote, Professor Underwood has 

 displayed untiring energy, combined with independence and orig- 

 inality, and his work has been fruitful in many important contri- 

 butions to science. j 



As an advisor and guide in the investigations of others, here 

 and elsewhere, Professor Underwood has exerted a wide influence, 

 and has displayed unselfish devotion and a generous regard for 

 the interests of those so engaged. 



The cheerfulness and general good-fellowship of Professor 

 Underwood in his personal relations with us, and with the mem- 

 bers of the Garden staff, has been such as to combine the most 

 pleasant recollections with the most sorrowful regret that we are 

 to enjoy him no more. 



Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be transmitted to the 

 family of Professor Underwood, and that the same be entered 

 upon our minutes and published in the Garden Journal. 



