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enhance their value as he wished, by perfectly authenticating their 

 names. More than once has he placed interesting collections in the 

 hands of the writer, for foreign distribution, perchance among strangers 

 who had never heard his name, expecting no return, other than the sat- 

 isfaction of knowing that they would be useful. When a botanist who 

 then knew him only by a casual correspondence, lost his whole herba- 

 rium by/ fire, Mr. Oakes's prompt letter of sympathy was accompanied 

 by the substantial encouragement of a fine package of plants, with 

 which to commence the restoration, as well as with most cordial proffers 

 of further assistance. 



Mr. Tuckerman has consecrated to the name of Oakes, already in- 

 separably connected with New England botany, a beautiful and highly 

 interesting evergreen, newly detected in several localities along our 

 eastern coast, (the Oakesia Conradi, Tuckerm., which is finely figured 

 in the volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy, now just 

 published ;) but even if that genus be superseded, his name will not 

 perish from among us, nor the memory of his many virtues, of his 

 active liberality, his manly and disinterested zeal, his untiring devo- 

 tion to science, and his pure love to the objects of his study for their 

 own sake. A. Gr. 



16. Death of Robert Gilmor, Esq., of Baltimore. — We cannot permit 

 one of our earliest and most constant friends to pass away without a 

 brief tribute to his memory. His death took place in Baltimore on the 

 30th of November, at the age of seventy-four or seventy-five. 



Mr. Gilmor was one of the first to second and by his influence and 

 kindness to sustain our efforts in those departments of science in which 

 we have labored. 



He early attached himself to the cultivation of mineralogy, and his 

 affluence and extensive personal acquaintance with eminent mineralogists 

 in Europe, and his travels in various foreign countries as well as his inti- 

 mate intercourse with our rising mineralogists at home, enabled him to 

 collect a cabinet remarkable for its richness in fine and rare minerals ; for 

 he selected his specimens with the spirit both of a man of science and 

 of an amateur. The notice of his cabinet in our last number was 

 communicated by himself, and the other treasures of his richly endowed 

 mansion made it a beautiful museum for science, literature and the arts. 

 His collection of autographs is distinguished not less by its extent than 

 by its high value. Mr. Gilmor moved in the most elevated circles in 

 Europe and had access to literary treasures, some of which are very 

 peculiar. He was for many years a sufferer with the asthma, but his 

 energetic and animated spirit, by God's blessing, sustained him to a good 

 old age, cherished, admired, revered and beloved by a wide circle of 

 friends. He was a fine example of a gentleman of the old school ; 

 polite, cheerful, frank, affectionate, hospitable, and liberal both with his 

 money and his influence. He was a decided supporter of the religious 

 and moral institutions of Christianity, and of all good and benevolent 

 efforts. 



His father, a native of Scotland, but long established in Baltimore, 

 sustained and transmitted to his son a high standing as a merchant and 

 banker. Louis Phillippe and his brothers drew their funds from this 

 banking house when they left Baltimore on horseback for the west- 



