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covered by him on an island in Biscayne Bay in 1S77, 

 growing as a small slirub, and has never been collected 

 since. Dr. Garber made an excursion to Puerto Rico in 

 1880. Garber ia of a single species, a Florida shrub with 

 Liatris-like flowers, commemorate Dr. Garber's service to 

 American botany. 



He contrilKited to the Botanical Gazette the followinsr 



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papers : 



1. '' Xotes on Tillandsia," II : 59. 



2. " Botanical Rambles in East Florida," II : TO, 82. 



3. "Botanical Rambles in Middle Florida," II : 102. 



4. "Ferns in South Florida," III-IY : 82. 



CHARLES SCHAFFER. 



Charles Schaffer, M. D., was born in Philadelphia, 

 Feln-uary 4, 1838. His father, Charles Schaffer, was a 

 wholesale druggist in tlie vicinity Sixth and Market Street ; 

 his mother was Priscilla Morgan, daughter of Stacy K. 

 Potts, an old Philadelphia merchant. His early education 

 was received at the hands of a private tutor who prepared 

 him for the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated 

 in medicine in March, 1859. After graduation he spent a 

 short time in volunteer service in the Chester Hospital in 

 1863, which position he was obliged to leave on account of 

 illness. He was also attending physician at the Mission 

 Hospital and Dispensatory from 1874 to 1880, when it 

 closed. Dr. Schaffer has long been interested in botany, 

 and is perfectly familiar with the flora of Philadelphia and 

 vicinage. As a member of the Philadelphia County Medical 

 Society, Fellow of the College of Physicans of Philadelphia, 

 Fellow of the Geological Society of America, member of the 



