78 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
of plants, we can look over the broad battlefield of biology, 
and see the vast territories which have been conquered, 
then relinquished in turn by mosses and fungi, pteridophytes, 
gamopctalous dicotyledons. We can see how the hardy 
pines have fought stubbornly for centuries, yielding ground 
only inch by inch to the endogens, the secret of whose final 
victory was that, Niobe-like, they protected their children 
though perishing themselves. We can see too how these 
children have been driven to the marshes, windswept plains, 
and cold mountain hills by the onslaughts of their more com 
pletely armed younger brothers, who, leagued with the great 
insect kingdom, are carrying all before them. 
That will be a view well worth looking at and the sooner 
we begin the climb to the high ground, the better. The 
botany of the past is a most vital part of the botany of today. 
Zoélogy must join hands with us. We are dependent on each : 
other. Distribution, genealogy, and environment will ee 
largely into the manuals of the future. Then the touch® 
nature which makes the whole world kin will be added to the 
long Latin names and mechanical descriptions. 
[The foregoing paper was prepared at Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College, 
S. Hadley, Mass. | 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
F. W. Anderson, Se. D. 
F. D. KELSEY. j : 
(WITH PORTRAIT. ) : 
This rising young botanist died in New York city om Dee 
22, 1891 from an abcess on the brain. He was espe 
ally known as an independent and indefatigable voy 
upon our Montana flora. Gone is he, no more to roam W! 
me our Montana plains, no more to climb these mountall 
no more to sit beside me in my study gazing through ee 
microscope to discover Nature’s secrets, no more to ne a 
skilful pencil in catching upon paper the singular beauti 
