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The following is a reprint of the membership card : 



Die 



Kaiserlich Konigliche 



Zoologisch botanische Gesellschaft 



in 



Wien 



ernannt 



Herrn 



H. W. Ravenel, Esq., 



als 



Mitglied 



Wien am 5 Jahrer 1883. 



Collorid Miensfuht, 



Prasident. 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl, 



Vice Prasident. 

 Claus J. Rogenhofafs, 



Secretar. 



He was agricultural editor of 'The Weekly News and 

 Courier," and in addition to his botanical papers, he 

 published 'Tungi Carolifliani Exsiccati," (5 volumes: 

 Charleston, 1853-60,) and with Mordecai C. Cooke of 

 London as joint author, 'Tungi Americani Exsiccati," 

 (8 volumes, 1878-82.) The most valuable part of his 

 excellent Herbarium, (the cryptogamic part) was sold 

 to the British museum in 1893. The remainder, the 

 phaenogamic, was sold to Converse College some years 

 later. 



The following is quoted from the ''Ravenel Records," 

 p. 62 et seq. : 



"Henry W. Ravenel, LL. D., who was born at Pooshee, 

 St. John's, Berkeley, May 19, 1814, removed to Aiken 

 in 1853, and died July 17, 1887, was a botanist of more 

 than national reputation. 



"In the Transactions of the Huguenot Society of 

 South Carolina,' No. 1, it is said that he rose to the first 

 rank of American scientists. He was correspondent of 



