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Magazine (Oct., 1892), "was more typical than the late Dr. C. C. 

 Parry, who first crossed the country with the Mexican Boundary 

 Commission. At intervals, for forty years after, he was a familiar 

 figure to hunters, prospectors, mountaineers, and all sorts of out- 

 door people, from the Arizona deserts to the Siskiyou pine forests." 



Dr. Parry was recognized as an authority by botanists every- 

 where; not only in this country (where he ranked with the first) 

 and in England, but on the Continent as well; and this notwith- 

 standing the fact that he never published a book, had no ambition 

 in the way of authorship, and left most of his discoveries to be 

 described by others. His writings, though sufficient to constitute 

 volumes, and comprising much of great scientific value, are scat- 

 tered in fragmentary form through various government and society 

 reports, scientific journals, and the daily press. A list, approxi- 

 mately complete, will be published in connection herewith. 



In 1875 he was made a fellow of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, in which body his membership dates 

 back to 185 1. He kept up a corresponding membership in the 

 Philadelphia, Buffalo, St. Louis, Chicago, and California Academies 

 of Science, and was connected with various other organizations, 

 among them the Philosophical Society of Washington, D. C, the 

 Bay District Horticultural Society of California, and the State 

 Historical Society of Iowa. Of our own Academy he was, from 

 the start, a most active promoter and one of the main supports. 

 Its welfare was a matter of constant solicitude with him, and to his 

 valuable papers, published in our Proceedings, the Academy's 

 favorable recognition abroad is in great part due. Although 

 absent in Arizona at the time of its organization, he was made a 

 member of the first Board of Trustees, and continued in that 

 capacity as long as he lived. On the resignation of our first 

 President, Prof. Sheldon, in 1868, Dr. Parry was chosen to succeed 

 him, and reelected again and again, until, in 1875, he declined 

 longer to retain a place from which, and its duties, he must of 

 necessity be much of the time absent. As a member of the Publi- 

 cation Committee from its inception, his counsel and assistance 

 were invaluable, as indeed they were, while he lived, in the 

 Academy's every undertaking. 



Wholly free from that jealous self- seeking which too often mars 

 genuine merit, his relations with his fellow-workers, whether tyros 

 or masters in the science, were always of the pleasantest. The 



