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1892. ] I. W. Anderson. 79 
He was born at Wisbech, Eng., June 22, 1866. In 1881 the 
family removed to Chicago and in +883 he came to Montana 
and began his brief but brilliant career in the study of the 
Montana flora. In 1888 he met at Great Falls, Montana, Hon. 
- J. Colman, then United States Commissioner of Agricul- 
ture. At the same time also he met the then editor of the 
at Newfield, N. J., with Mr. J. B. Ellis, or at New York at work 
upon the Agriculturist. Hewas beginning to publish botani- 
cal articles quite largely and venture upon revisions and de- 
scription of new species. 
r. Anderson was an example of what can be accomplished 
by a man of one idea. From earliest childhood he manifest- 
ed a liking for scientific pursuits. For the love of botany he 
surrendered in later years all thought of ease, wealth or com- 
fort. It was heaven for him to botanize; woe was it for him 
to be forced to do anything else. 
His honored father who survives him is a clergyman, and, 
like all clergymen, knows what a perplexing problem it often is 
to make the unknown ‘‘r” in the yearly equation a plus quantity. 
Of course, his son Fred wastoo much of a man‘ to allow himeelt 
to be a burden upon the struggling father. Hence he often 
endured poverty rather than give up his botanical investi-— 
gations, 
His energy was intense, and in the freedom of my intimate 
relationship with him I dubbed him my ‘‘night owl’; many 
a time forcing him to rest long before he himself would have 
Surrendered to sleep. 
The College of Montana at Deer Lodge in June, 1890, con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science, in acknowl- 
€dgement of his valuable services in investigating the flora of 
