CHARLES UPHAM SHEPARD. 



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to Amherst College, and his cabinet of representatives of 

 more than two hundred different meteorites has been de- 

 posited in the United States National Museum. During the 

 past few years he has devoted himself to the experimental cul- 

 tivation of tea on his plantation near Summerville, S. C., where 

 he has extensive gardens of the leading varieties. 



