VOL. XI, NO. 4.-BOTANICAL GAZETTE.—APRIL, 18886. 
EDWARD TUCKERMAN. 
I. Biographical Sketch. 
[The following sketch is condensed from the notice of Dr. Tuckerman in 
the Amherst Record of March 17, which we understand is from the pen of Prof. 
‘Tyler.—Eps.] 
_ Edward Tuckerman, professor of botany in Amherst College, 
died on Monday the 15th instant, at his residence in Amherst, of 
which town he was a citizen for more than thirty years. 
Edward Tuckerman was the eldest child of Edward and Sophia 
(May) Tuckerman, and was born in Boston December 7, 1817; 
prepared for college at Ingraham’s school and the Boston Latin 
school ; entered the Sophomore class at Union College 1834, being 
graduated B. A. in 1837. Thence he proceeded to Cambridge 
and entered the Harvard Law School, taking the degree LL. B. 
in 18: He remained at the Law School till 1841, during which 
time he took a special course at the Divinity School, and then 
went abroad and studied several years in Germany, devoting him- 
self particularly to the study of history, philosophy and botany. 
eturning to this country, he joined the Senior class of Har- 
vard College, being led to that step by friendship for several of 
its members, and graduated with them the following year. 
Subsequently received the degree of M. A. from both Harvard 
and Union, and LL. D. from Amherst. A taste for the natural 
Sciences very early manifested itself, and during his course at 
Union College he was appointed curator of the museums. His 
Connection with Amherst College dates from 1854, the years pre- 
Vious being spent in the pursuit of his favorite studies at Cam- 
bridge. In Amherst he held the position of lecturer in history 
from 1854-55, and again from 1858-1873, and professor of Ori- 
ental history from 1855-58. It was not till 1858 that he was 
appointed to the chair of botany, which he held thereafter till the 
ay of his death. a 
was married May 17, 1854, at Boston, to Sarah Eliza Sig- 
ourney, daughter of Thomas P. Cushing, and leaves no children. 
Professor Tuckerman was a student all his life, and studies 
once begun were never relinquished till feebleness and the inroads 
of disease compelled him to lay them aside. He was a specialist, 
and yet he was not one, for he was a scholar in the truest sense 
of the word, and his attainments were as wide and varied as his 
reading. His linguistic acquirements were remarkable, and his 
literary correspondence with foreign scientists was carried on In 
other languages than his own. In his use of words he was espe- 
