224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE | SEPTEMBER 1898 
Dr. E. Lewis SturTEVANT died at his home in Framingham, Mass., 
on the 30th of July, at the age of 56. While not a professional botanist, 
he was a special student of plant variation under cultivation, and was thor- 
oughly informed of the bearing of botany upon agriculture. He accumulated 
one of the finest collections of prelinnean hooks in existence, and donated 
this, a few years ago, together with his notes on the genus Capsicum, to the 
Missouri Botanical Garden. The study of this genus, for which he stipulated, 
was published in the last report of the garden, shortly before his death. 
HERBERT Lyon Jones, professor of biology in Oberlin College, died at 
his father’s home in Granville, Ohio, Saturday, August 27, 1898, after an 
illness lasting for two months. Professor Jones was born in Granville 
February 11, 1866. He graduated from Denison University in 1886, and 
followed this with a year Of special study at his a/ma mater. His graduate’ 
work was taken at Harvard University, where he was highly esteemed in his 
department. He taught for several years in Radcliffe College, until about a 
year ago, when he was chosen to the chair in Oberlin. He was a man of 
sterling character, who worked diligently in his profession and gave promise 
of an exceedingly useful career. 
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