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delphia," printed in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences for February, 1867. In this paper Mr. Smith records 

 observations on 106 ballast plants, especially from the South, 

 as found on the ballast heaps of Philadelphia. For some 

 time Mr. Smith botanized with Messrs. Martindale, Burk, 

 Diffenbaugh and Parker, and it is to the labors of these 

 men conjointly that our knowledge of the recently intro- 

 duced floral strays is due. It may be said that these 

 observations will be of great use to the future phyto- 

 geographer, who may desire to trace geographically the 

 European, Asiatic and South American plants, introduced 

 into the United States and now growing spontaneously. 



Mr. Smith married Miss May Rose Grier, a daughter of 

 Justice Grier, of the United States Supreme Court. Before 

 his death, which occurred in 1891, his impaired hearing 

 kept him from court-room work, and his time was devoted 

 to the business of estates, of which he had many to settle. 

 His death resulted from pneumonia, the result of a chill. 

 At the time of his death Mr. Smith was a United States 

 Commissioner. 



JOHN REDFIELD. 



On the banks of the beautiful Connecticut, and near 

 the center of the state of the same name, is to be found the 

 place anciently and still called Middletown ; and, in 

 accordance with a custom, nowhere so common as in New 

 England, of retaining for ofF-shoots from the original settle- 

 ments the name of the mother town with a prefix or suffix, 

 the little hamlet, a few miles up the river, was, of old, called 

 by the somewhat quaint name of " Middletown Upper 

 Houses," now changed to the unmeaning one of Cromwell. 



