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phia Academy. In it he found 3,000 species not 

 in his own collection. Darlington tried in vain 

 to get a small government pension for his friend's 

 widow, and doubtless the unexpected refusal 

 meant inroads into his own scanty income. He 

 gave also most generously of his leisure in sorting 

 over Baldwin's manuscripts and letters and has 

 transmitted to us the Reliquiae Baldwinianae 

 ( 1 843 ) . In this work he gives no published writ- 

 ings from Baldwin, save the two papers men- 

 tioned; the other manuscripts unpublished came 

 into Dr. Torrey's possession and, though in a 

 fragmentary state, were used as contributions for 

 his monograph of the Gyperaceae, and for Gray's 

 monograph of Rhynchospora, in the Annals of 

 New York Lyceum of Natural History, vol. iii. 

 At the beginning of his biography of Baldwin, 

 Darlington has this quotation : 



" Manibus date lilia plenis 

 Purpureos spargam floras animamque nepotis 

 His saltern accumulem donis, et fungar inani 

 Munere! " (Virgil, Aen. 6, 883-6.) 



("Bring me handfuls of lilies, that I may strew the grave with 

 their dazzling hues, and crown, if only with these gifts, my young 

 descendant's shade and perform the vain service of sorrow.") 



Conington. 



Reliquiae Baldwinianae. W. Darlington. 1843. 

 Memorials of Bartram and Marshall. W. Darlington. 1849. 

 Personal Communication from his grandson, Edward Baldwin 

 Gleason. 



