80 The Botanical Gazette. |March, 
his forthcoming work on the ‘‘North American rye 
cetes.” Upon completing his work for Mr. Ellis he was 7 
upon the editorial force of the American Agriculturist a Pt 
York. Upon taking up his permanent residence at o 
York, he was elected to membership in the Torrey bout 
Club whose meetings were to him a. constant celige : 
this time he published, jointly with myself, a pamphle Be 
titled: ‘Common and Conspicuous Algae of Montana. cia 
was a reprint from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical si 
He began his botanical publications by sending a ye 
BOTANICAL GAZETTE short field notes and observations - . 
Montana, and later published observations upon our ire x 
fungi. His articles have most of them been short and cr : 
giving promise of far greater effort in the near future. fa 
was especially skillful in drawing and was at the time 0 
death engaged upon drawings for Mrs. E. G. bit 
posed work on the mosses of the northeastern United 5 si 
In Dr. Geo. Vasey’s ‘Report of the botanist” for 1888 is in - 
porated a very valuable essay of fourteen octavo pee Bie 
pastoral resources of Montana by Mr. Anderson. Be 
not pretend to be a complete list of forage plants in Mon at 
but it does describe well the usual and profitable lore 
this country. He had a remarkable talent for making be in 
list very interesting reading even for the unprofessional. a 
the same report can be seen three of his drawings, Pre 
Plantago Patagonica, var. gnaphalioides; Lygodesmia jun’ 
and Solanum triflorum. = 
Mr. Anderson is also a valuable example of what ae 
boy, without special scientific education, without in 
in a university, with a delicate and treacherous consti! ; 
with poverty always dogging his steps, can do in a shor! 
earnest youth. cau 
Two things he loved with great enthusiasm, good boo fs 
botanical novelties. For the books I have seen him ae ‘ 
every cent he possessed; for the other no mountain was 
steep, no distance too great, no weariness too distresst 
him to endure, that he might lay his hands upon a new oe 
or grasp a new fungus. He seemed to know by instinct be : 
to find a treasure. The inspiration of his botanical kn rs 
was intensified by the fact that he gained his knowle ie 
first hand. He knew whereof he spoke or wrote. More 
he was a close observer of nature and a diligent collector 
