EARLY BOTANISTS AND BOTANICAL SECTION. 4 1 



He retained his interest in botany as long as he lived, and the 

 last few months of his life were devoted to naming and rearranging 

 the plants in his herbarium. The greater part of his herbarium was 

 given to the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, but a 

 portion of it was donated to us by Dr. Daniel G. Hastings, of this 

 city. Dr. Bradley died at his home in West Greece in 1880, at the 

 age of 84 years. A more complete sketch of his life was published by 

 this Society in 1894. {Proc. Roch. Acad, of Set., Vol. 2, pp. 26 r- 

 263.) 



Chester Dewey, 



In 1836 Dr. Chester Dewey came to reside in Rochester. For 

 many years he had been dee|)ly interested in botany, and his "History 

 of the Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts" had been published by 

 that State. He had also begun a Monograph of the Carices, his 

 studies of which extended back to 1S24. 



In a sketch of Dr. Dewey, published after his death, President 

 Anderson of the University of Rochester said : "He early became an 

 enthusiastic student of botany and contributed very largely to the 

 scientific knowledge of the Carices," and Dr. Asa Gray spoke of his 

 writings on Caricography as "an elaborate monograph patiently pro- 

 secuted through more than forty years." Dr. Gray further said that 

 in connection with the eminent botanists Schweinitz and Torrey, Dr. 

 Dewey laid the foundations and insured the popularity of the study of 

 the sedges in this country. 



As a professor in the University of Rochester, Dr. Dewey inter- 

 ested many students in the study of botany, and the flora of the 

 vicinity of the city was very thoroughly collected and examined many 

 times. The Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Regents of the 

 University of the State of New York contained a paper by Dr. Dewey 

 entitled : "Catalogue of Plants and Time of Flowering in and about 

 the City of Rochester for 1841," but, unfortunately, he did not 

 publish a complete record of his work in this region. In an admir- 

 able biographical sketch published by the Academy in 1900, 

 (Proc. Roch. Acad. Set., Vol. j, pp. 182-183) Mr. Charles W. 

 Seelye pays a warm tribute to Dr. Dewey as a man, as an instructor, 

 and as a botanist, saying the influence which he exerted by his 



