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societies, both at home and abroad. Mr. Meehan was 

 elected a member of the Royal Wernerian Society in 1844. 

 He has been for many years Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and an honorary mem- 

 ber of most of the leading Horticultural Societies of America 

 and of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. For 

 several successive years Professor Meehan was elected 

 annually to the Board of Visitors of Harvard University. 

 When the Philadelphia Economic Museum was originated 

 in 1894, he became one of the Trustees. When the State 

 Board of Agriculture was formed Mr. Meehan became the 

 State Botanist, a position which he still retains. 



About 1853 Mr. Brinklaw started The Gardener's 

 Monthly, Mr. Meehan assuming the editorship until the 

 death of Mr. Charles Marot (circa 1881). He also was for a 

 time Editor of the Agricultural Department of the Phila- 

 delphia Press, under the management of John W. Forney. 

 Mr. Meehan also became Horticultural and Agricultural 

 Editor of a number of American journals, at one time con- 

 tributing to no less than six, viz. : Maryland Farmer, New 

 York Independent, New York Tribune, and Public Ledger. 

 While at Bartram's Garden he published a book : " Hand- 

 book of Ornamental Trees,"* which was well received. Mr. 

 Meehan was the author of the descriptions which appeared 

 with the lithographic-colored plates of plants, issued by 

 Prang, of Boston, as '' The Flowers and Ferns of the 

 United States," f which were published until the death of 



* The American Hand-book of Ornamental Trees. By Thomas Meehan, 

 gardener. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.. 1853, octavo, pp. xv, 257. 



t TTie Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States, in their Botanical, 

 Horticultural and Popular Aspects. By Thomas Meehan. Illustrated by chromo- 

 lithographs. Boston: L. Prang & Co., 8 vo. I (1878), II (1879). Series 2. 1(1880), 

 American Natural History Publishing Co., Limited, Philadelphia. II (1880), ('harles 

 Robson ifcCo., Philadelphia. 



