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edition of the " Manual of Botany " Mr. Carey contributed 

 the articles on Salix and on Carex, at that time the two most 

 difficult parts of the work. In the year 1841 the two made a 

 botanical journey together into the mountains of North Caro- 

 lina, extending to the Grandfather and to the Roan, though a 

 mishap upon the former mountain prevented Mr. Carey from 

 reaching the latter. After the establishment of the writer at 

 Cambridge, Mr. Carey was his frequent guest and invaluable 

 companion. His botanical career may have said to have 

 closed in the year 1852. In that year he returned to Eng- 

 land alone, having successively lost his aged mother and his 

 two younger sons, and seen the elder son happily established 

 in marriage. He engaged for several years in business, in 

 connection with a friend of his youth, whose daughter he soon 

 married, but lost within three years, after the birth of the sec- 

 ond of the two children, the solace and comfort and care of a 

 serene old age, who survive to perpetuate his name, we trust, 

 on that side of the ocean also. Mr. Carey's first herbarium 

 was destroyed by a calamitous fire in New York, at the time 

 of the death of his youngest son. American botanists vied 

 with each other in the endeavor to repair this serious loss, and 

 another large collection of United States plants was formed, 

 critically studied, and carefully annotated. This was pre- 

 sented to the Kew Gardens herbarium eleven years ago. 

 Several species of United States plants commemorate this 

 honored name, among them a Saxifrage, which was discovered 

 upon the excursion to the mountains of North Carolina, where 

 the survivor of the party re-collected it last summer. The 

 almost sole survivor of a botanical circle, of which Torrey was 

 the centre, sadly but serenely pays the tribute of this brief 

 note to the memory of a near and faithful friend, an accom- 

 plished botanist, a genial and warm-hearted and truly good 

 man. 



