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of the Colorado River in southern Utah. 
it has proved hardy and flowers every year.' 
graduated in 1846. He studied medicine, taking his degree in 1848, 
and then having spent two years in Europe, took up the practice of 
medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Newberry’s interest in science 
induced him to accept the position of geologist and botanist to the 
party under command of Lieutenant Williamson, sent to the Co- 
lumbia River by the Government of the United States to explore 
a railroad route to the Pacific. The account of his collections was 
published in 1857 in the sixth volume of the Reports of Explorations 
and Surveys to ascertain the most Practical and Economical Route for 
a Railroad from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean ; it included 
an important account of the forest trees of northern California and 
Oregon, which contained much useful information. Dr. Newberry 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
OLEACEZ. 
In 1874 it was introduced into the Arnold Arboretum, where 
was joined to the party under Lieutenant Ives, which in 1857 and 
1858 explored the Colorado River, and in 1859 he accompanied 
Captain Mavombe from Santa Fé to the junction of the Grand and 
Green rivers. In 1861 Dr. Newberry became a member of the 
United States Sanitary Commission, which he served during five 
years, when he was appointed professor at Columbia College. He 
was the author of many papers on botany, especially on paleo- 
botany, and on geology. In botany his name has been com- 
memorated in Newberrya, a genus of leafless plants of which he 
discovered the type among the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. 
(See Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xx. 89.) 
1 Garden and Forest, iii. 54. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCLXVI. FRAxInus ANOMALA. 
1 and 2. Flowering branches, natural size. 
. A perfect flower, just expanding, enlarged. 
. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
. A perfect flower, enlarged. 
A pistil, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of an ovary, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
OMHAD NPE w 
. Vertical section of a fruit, natural size. 
10. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
11. An embryo, enlarged. 
12. A branch with pinnate leaves, natural size. 
13. A winter branchlet, natural size. 
