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thousand dollars and immense pains were expended) are 

 simply exquisite and wholly unrivaled ; and the scientific 

 character is acknowledged to be worthy of the setting. 

 Within the last few years most of the time which Mr. Sulli- 

 vant could devote to science has been given to the preparation 

 of a second or supplementary volume of the Icones. The 

 plates, it is understood, are completed, the descriptions in a 

 good degree written out, and the vernal months in which his 

 mortal life closed were to have been devoted to the printing. 

 The Manual of North American Mosses was speedily to 

 follow. 



He was remarkably young for his years, so that the hopes 

 and expectations in which we were indulging seemed reason- 

 able. But in January, not far from his seventieth birthday, 

 he was prostrated by pneumonia, from the consequences of 

 which, after some seeming convalescence, he died upon the 

 last day of April. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Caroline E. (Sut- 

 ton) Sullivant, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil- 

 dren, to inherit a stainless and honored name, and to cherish 

 a noble memory. 



In personal appearance and carriage, no less than in all the 

 traits of an unselfish and well-balanced character, Mr. Sulli- 

 vant was a fine specimen of a man. He had excellent busi- 

 ness talents, and was an exemplary citizen ; he had a refined 

 and sure taste, and was an accomplished draughtsman. But 

 after having illustrated his earlier productions with his own 

 pencil, he found that valuable time was to be gained by em- 

 ploying a trained artist. He discovered in Mr. A. Schrader 

 a hopeful draughtsman, and he educated him to the work, 

 with what excellent results the plates of the Icones and of 

 his other works abundantly show. As an investigator he 

 worked deliberately, slowly indeed and not continuously, but 

 perseveringly. Having chosen his particular department, he 

 gave himself undeviatingly to its advancement. His works 

 have laid such a broad and complete foundation for the study 

 of bryology in this country, and are of such recognized im- 

 portance everywhere, that they must always be of classical 

 authority ; in fact, they are likely to remain for a long time 



