182 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [July, 
ton Seminary. He then went to Europe, entered a Gottingen University, 
Germany, and received his diplomas of A. M. and Ph. D. with Prof. C. A. 
Goessmann, the noted organic chemist and ee of the Massachusetts Ex- 
periment Station. 
Upon his return from Germany he was elected to the chair of chemistry. 
and botany in Amherst College, which he retained until August, 1867, when he 
was elected president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. He took 
active part in the rebellion with the Twenty-first Massachusetts regiment as its 
colonel. 
Colonel Clark was noted for the energy and enthusiasm he put into every- 
thing he undertook, and in the class-room he imparted this to his students to 
such an extent that very thorough and rapid progress was always made. During 
the last fifteen or twenty years of his life he made the study of plant-life his 
specialty, and conducted a series of very careful experiments upon the circula- 
tion of sap in plants, the expansive force of plant tissues, the movements of 
plants, rapidity of the movements of sap, etc., most of which are recorded in 
the catalogues of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and the annual re- 
ports of the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agricultu 
These papers, which are valuable additions to botanical iivetaddre, are per- 
haps his most important writings, althou gh he was always ready with lectures 
upon almost all industrial and natural scientific oor nie whenever called upon 
and was a most brilliant and fascinating speaker. In 1876 he was granted a 
leave of absence and established the Koyal Agricultural College at Sapporo, 
Japan. 
His many pupils look back with pleasure to the profitable days spent un- 
der his instruction, in which they always found him a true friend and wise 
counselor. MAYNARD. 
Tuckerman idiieaowh). ra following correction and additions may 
be made to the list on page 74 of this volume 
Notice of some Cyperacee of our vicinity - Hovey’s Mag. of Hort. and 
Bot. vii, 208-210 (1841). 
riptions of several new plants of New England: ibid, ix. 142-3 (1843). 
Carex argyrantha s), nov. : distrib. with descr, Amherst, Aug. 16, 1859; 
published in Wood’s Class-Book of Botany 1861, p. 753. 
Carex glaucodea Mss. : Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 395 hie 
Lichens or fungi ? : Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vii. 66-7 (188 
Review of Minks’s Symbol Paige dag nl Hog ix, 143 (1882). 
The Synopsis of the Lichens of the Northern U. = , etc., was first published 
in Proce, Am. Acad. i 1, 195-285 (1848 ).—Hewnry WI 
In the two most recent fascicles of the Bulletin of the 
produce petals which are not saccate or spurred (which certainly militates 
