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unrivaled. Wherever Mosses are studied, his name will be 

 honorably remembered ; in this country it should long be 

 remembered with peculiar gratitude. 



In accordance with his wishes, his bryological books and 

 his exceedingly rich and important collections and prepara- 

 tions of Mosses are to be consigned to the Gray Herbarium 

 of Harvard University, with a view to their preservation and 

 long-continued usefulness. The remainder of his botanical 

 library, his choice microscopes, and other collections are be- 

 queathed to the State Scientific and Agricultural College, 

 just established at Columbus, and to the Starling Medical 

 College, founded by his uncle, of which he was himself the 

 senior trustee. 



Mr. Sullivant was chosen into the American Academy in 

 the year 1845. He received the honorary degree of Doctor 

 of Laws from Gambier College, in his native State. His old- 

 est botanical associates long ago enjoyed the pleasure of be- 

 stowing the name of Sullivantia Ohionis upon a very rare 

 and interesting but modest and neat Saxifragaceous plant, 

 which he himself discovered in his native State, on the se- 

 cluded banks of a tributary of the river which flows by the 

 place where he was born, and where his remains now repose. 



