BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
MAY, 1892. 
Sereno Watson. 
JOHN M. COULTER. 
(WITH PLATES VI AND vi1.!) 
Sereno Watson was born December I, 1826, at East Wind- 
sor Hill, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 
tudied medicine at the University of New York; was a prac- 
ticing physician for two years at Quincy, Illinois; was secre- 
tary of the Planters’ Insurance Company of Greensboro, 
ame from 1856 to 1861; became a professional botanist 
ho, at his death, was the most distinguished 
nt of systematic botany. His work will 
» but the real flavor of his quiet life is known 
f us who were fortunate enough to be in- 
timately associate 
arium, under his care, still had the atmosphere 
: fr so characteristic of its great founder. To 
a ™ the memories of the friend to the cold recital of 
a ork of the botanist is a necessary but uncongenial task. 
&: 'The < 
Ttis selecteq * (plate vi) is from a phot h by Pach, taken in January, 1887. 
Mterior (plat by afriend as the best likeness of Dr. Watson. dhe herbarium 
am indet tat @8 from a Photograph taken about 1880. : 
to Dr. w. to “Garden and Forest” (March 16) for the facts with refer- 
Vol. erg 80'S earlier life. 
* XVIL—No. 5. 
