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His Studies in later years were mostly among the grasses, 

 mosses and algae. His large collections of these plants have been 

 given to the Academy, and will take their place in our herbarium. 

 It was hoped that Dr. Booth would make his study of the mosses 

 of this region so complete that it could be published by the Academy, 

 but the infirmities of his later life prevented his accomplishing this. 



Dr. Booth and Mr. Joseph B. Fuller were intimate friends *and 

 co-workers for many years in the field of botany. Mr. Fuller used 

 to enjoy telling how, in his earlier botanical excursions, he frequently 

 caught sight of another man carrying a tin collecting case, and won- 

 dered who he was. After a time their paths crossed, and it did not 

 take long for them to form an acquaintance, which lasted until the 

 close of their lives. 



After the publication of our List of Plants of Monroe County, 

 in 1896, the enthusiasm of all the members of the Botanical Section 

 was newly aroused. Dr. Booth and Mr. Fuller were greatly 

 interested, and made frequent trips up and down the railroad tracks, 

 searching for recently introduced weeds, and never returned with- 

 out securing more or less specimens new to our locality. The 

 advent of the Russian Thistle was confidently expected at that 

 time, for it was reported as on its way east, and many of our bota- 

 nists were looking out for it, but Dr. Booth was the first to find it. 

 He was remarkably quick to recognize a new plant ; sometimes 

 when walking along the street, conversing with a friend, and appar- 

 ently not particularly interested in his surroundings, he would 

 quietly step one side and gather an entirely new species, one which 

 no one else had thought of looking for. As long as his strength 

 permitted him to roam abroad, he was constantly on the lookout 

 for new introductions, and as constantly finding them. The Botanical 

 Section owes much to the labors and researches, the quick eye and 

 trained mind of Dr. Booth. 



In character. Dr. Booth was one of the most unassuming of 

 men, gentle, quiet and retiring, enjoying to the utmost the freedom 

 of his country life, with its flowers and its fruits and its opportunities 

 for doing unostentatious deeds of kindness. His neighbors speak of 

 him lovingly as one of the best of men, and one of them says that to 

 her he was the most like Thoreau of any one she ever knew. To 

 some of us he will ever be an exponent of the simple life. 



