BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 123 
Now it has become his painful duty to tell the readers of the 
GAZETTE that the author of that book is dead. John William- 
son is dead! 
Only a few years ago his name was unknown beyond the cir- 
cle of a few friends and business associates; to-day it has a world- 
wide reputation, and is honored by the city of his adoption as 
among the proudest in its history. 
What John Williamson, the artist-botanist, has done for art 
in Louisville can never be forgotten. His name will ever stand 
as a monumental example of what an earnest, sincere soul, ani- 
mated by high aimsand purposes, can accomplish under the most 
trying adverse surroundings, and encourage others who may be 
groping upward toward the light, and struggling as he struggled 
and groped for years, until the dawn of a triumphant career 
flooded all his future with promises of rich reward. How inex- 
pressibly sad to think that just as that success for which he had 
abled him to combine so successfully, and with such exquisite 
results, his love for the beautiful in nature with the practical in 
art. 
© this business he was devoting himself with wonderful en- 
ergy when cut off in the very prime and strength of his man- 
