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Lastly, as one of the botanists of Mr. Villard's North 

 Trans-Continental Survey, a fall suite of all the collections 

 made by it, came to his herbarium. With these, also, came 

 the collections of the Canadian Government Survey, and a 

 large contribution from Professor Macoun's private col- 

 lection. From this account it will be seen that during* 

 thirty years no collection, which enterprise and money 

 could secure, failed to become represented in the Canby 

 Herbarium. 



RACHEL L. BODLEY. 



Rachel L. Bodley was born in Cincinnati, December 7^ 

 1831. She was blessed with an excellent mother, under whose 

 pious and devoted care her early education was received 

 until she was twelve years old. Shortly afterward she 

 entered the Wesley an Female College of Cincinnati, in 1844. 

 Throughout the five years' college course she acquitted her- 

 self with honor, and in 1860 she was made preceptor in the 

 higher collegiate branches, but feeling dissatisfied with her 

 qualifications, and having a greater work in view, she came 

 to this city and entered the Polytechnic College as a special 

 student of chemistry and physics. After two years' work 

 here she returned to her home, and was made Professor 

 of Natural Science in the Cincinnati Female Seminary. 

 While professor in this seminary, an extensive collection of 

 specimens in natural history was bequeathed to it by 

 Joseph Clark. Professor Bodley, in the preface to the cata- 

 logue of this collection, says : " In the midst of abounding 

 wealth, famine was inevitable through lack of classification." 

 LTpon the task of making this catalogue, she entered single- 

 handed with a resolute will. There were foreign plants, she 

 writes, British ferns and mosses, and packages of plants 



