304 TPIE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, of 

 the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of tlie Chester County 

 Historical Society, of the American Philosophical Society, 

 he has had abundant opportunity to cultivate science, and 

 especially his favorite science, botany. 



AUSTIN CRAIG APGAR. 



Austin Craig Apgar was born at Peapack, Somerset 

 County, New York, August 4, 1838. His career in science 

 began at the State Normal School of New Jersey, where he 

 has taught botany and zoology from 1866 to 1899. When 

 Professor L. Agassiz opened the summer school at Penikese, 

 Massachusetts, in 1873 and 1874, Professor Apgar availed 

 liimself of this opportunity to become acquainted with such 

 men as Professors Agassiz, Burt G. Wilder, A. S. Packard, 

 Edward S. Morse and David S. Jordan. Professor Apgar 

 has taught botany in the summer schools at Glen Falls, 

 New York ; Asbury Park, New Jersey ; Fort Worth, Texas ; 

 Bedford City and Salem, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois. 

 The following is a list of his books and papers on botany : 



' ' Plant Analysis. ' ' 1874. 



"Pocket Key of Trees." 1891. 



" Trees of the Northern United States." 1892. 



"Extraordinary Vitality of a Girdled Limh.^^— Journal of the Trenton 

 Natural Historical Soeietij, January, 1889. 



"Study of Plant Life in Our Schools." — Sixteenth Annual II ejwrt of 

 the [New Jersey'] State Board of A</riculture, 1888-1889. 



"What Shall be Taught in Country Schools to Educate Farmers."— 

 Eighteenth Annual Report <f the [New Jersey] State Board of Agriculture, 1890. 



" How to Know Trees."— J r?>or Day Circular of New York State, 1895. 



