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he was fond of antiquarian and genealogical researches. He 

 privately published (without date) a handsome edition of Josse- 

 lyn's "New England's Rarities Discovered," with copious crit- 

 ical annotations, of 134 pages, including an introduction of 27 

 pages, which contains a biography of Josselyn and a sketch of 

 the earlier sources of our knowledge of New England plants 

 and of some of the people who made them known. 1 Among 

 them is a biographical notice of Manasseh Cutler, one of the 

 very first elected Fellows of this Academy, the earliest bo- 

 tanical contributor to its Memoirs, — pastor, naturalist, and 

 statesman, the builder of New England in Ohio, probably the 

 originator of the Dane Resolutions in Congress, — a man 

 whose name deserves larger remembrance than it has yet re- 

 ceived. 



Professor Tuckerman was elected into this Academy in May, 

 1845. He was one of the corporate members of the National 

 Academy of Sciences at Washington, and an honorary member 

 of several of the learned societies and academies of Europe. 

 He was still young when Nuttall dedicated to him the genus 

 Tuckermania, founded upon one of the handsomer of the 

 Calif ornian Composltce, which is retained as a subgenus. For 

 one who did not attain the age of sixty-seven, his publications 

 span a remarkably wide interval. It is said that he contrib- 

 uted several short articles on antiquarian topics to the " Mer- 

 cantile Journal," in the year 1832 ; also that, in 1832 and 

 1833, he assisted the late Mr. Samuel G. Drake in the pre- 

 paration of his " Book of the Indians " and " Indian Wars." 

 Then, between 1834 and 1841, he contributed to the " New 

 York Churchman " no less than fifty-four articles, under the 

 title of " Notitia Literaria " and " Adversaria," upon points in 

 history, biography, and theology. His latest botanical article 

 was contributed to the " Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club " in 1884. A little later, possibly, are some of his con- 

 tributions to the "Church Eclectic," mostly pseudonymous, 

 — critical notices of recent theological works. He was a 

 keen critic, and very independent in his judgments. He had 



1 It appears that this was a contribution to the fourth volume of the 

 " Archseologia Americana,"-published in 1860. 



