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sounded in his time the depths of various opinions. But as he 

 was born into, so he died, as he had lived, devoutly, in the 

 communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church. With some 

 interruptions, and of late under increasing infirmities, he yet 

 continued his Lichenological studies until within a few weeks 

 before the end. Living for a long while in comparative seclu- 

 sion, few of our younger botanists can have known him per- 

 sonally, or much by correspondence ; and most of his old asso- 

 ciates and near friends, who knew him best and prized him 

 highly for his sterling character, have gone before him. 



