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port, declared "In him we lose the most accomplished bryologist 

 this country has ever produced." He was a member of numer- 

 ous scientific societies at home and abroad, including the National 

 Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1872. Wil- 

 liam Sullivant was an admirable type of a species of scientific 

 man, now, if not almost extinct, at least relatively much less 

 common than half a century ago; I mean the amateur, as dis- 

 tinguished from the professional man of science ; not the dille- 

 tante, whose intellectual excursions are restricted to two dimen- 

 sions, but the man of genuine scholarly instincts who, free from 

 the restraint of a connection with an institution of learning or 

 other restriction upon his intellectual liberty, pursues with ardent 

 zeal the investigation of some department of science finding his 

 reward in the unalloyed delight of original discovery. 



Eminent men of science from different parts of the world 

 were frequently guests at his house. It w^as there that I first 

 had the privilege of meeting that most distinguished of Ameri- 

 can botanists. Dr. Asa Gray, and I recall his remark at a subse- 

 quent meeting that Columbus, Ohio, was known in every country 

 of the civilized world, not on account of its city hall, but because 

 it was the home of William Sullivant and Leo Lesquereux. 



Joseph Sullivant. the younger of the three sons of Lucas 

 was born in 1809, and died in 1882, after a long, honorable and 

 honored life, devoted largely to the promotion of the welfare 

 of the people of his city and his state. His interest in science 

 was less specialized than that of his brother, but, possibly to some 

 extent due to this fact, he was an inexhaustible source of aid 

 and encouragement to young and enthusiastic students in any 

 department of human knowledge provided only that their work 

 was serious and likely to prove worth while. He was engaged 

 with Col. Whittlesey in carrying on the survey of the ancient 

 earthworks of Ohio and he took an active part in the advance- 

 ment of the interests of agriculture and in the improvement of 

 agricultural methods and conditions. He gave freely of his 

 time and means to any project for the betterment of public 

 education and as a member of the first B'oard of Trustees of 

 the Ohio State University he was of that group that resolved 



