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Her papers on botany were mainly contributed to the 

 Philadelphia Ledger^ where a series on sea-weeds, collected at 

 Longport, attracted considerable and favorable attention. 

 Death ended her scientific labors on June 15, 1888. 



JOSIAH H00PE5. 



Josiah Hoopes was born in West Chester, Pennsyl- 

 vania, November 9, 1832. When three years of age, his 

 parents removed to Philadelphia, where they resided for 

 fifteen years, thence returning to West Chester, where the 

 subject of this sketch has been a resident since. In early 

 life he attended one of the grammar schools of Philadelphia 

 until the establishment of Friends' Central School, a noted 

 institution of learning, where he completed his course of 

 study. Descending from the same emigrant ancestor as 

 John Bartram, the noted botanist, he early developed a love 

 for nature, which was fostered by constant intercourse with 

 the three distinguished botanists, Dr. William Darlington, 

 David Townsend and Joshua Hoopes, all residents of West 

 Chester. To the enthusiasm of these gentlemen as teachers, 

 is due the love for trees and plants that was so early 

 developed in the pupil, so that after a practical acquaint- 

 ance with the flora of his native county, his field of study 

 was ambitiously enlarged to embrace more especially the 

 arborescent vegetation of the world. In this line he was 

 particularly drawn to the Conifer se, a natural order opening 

 up to the student of botany so many unsolved problems and 

 interesting lessons in plant-life, that the love of his earlier 

 years has continued with increasing interest until the present 

 time. In his chosen path he was very fortunate in pos- 

 sessing the acquaintance and correspondence of the late 



