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prepared in manuscript, but his enthusiasm was far greater than his 
strength and resources. With very few facilities for successful botanical 
work, and a weak physical constitution, he was compelled in discourage- 
ment to give up this large undertaking. 
Dr. Joor’s herbarium, which is the main record of his work, is not 
large, but is rich in specimens from the region where his life was 
spent. It is especially valuable because from that part of the south 
not well known to botanists, and covered by none of our manuals, A 
part of his collections, as before stated, were incorporated into the 
herbarium of Tulane University when he was connected with it. The 
rest were purchased from Mrs. Joor in 1897 by the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. 
Most of the collections were made about New Orleans and Baton 
Rouge, Galveston bay, and other parts of Harris county, Texas, where 
he lived, and in Navarro and adjoining counties when he lived at 
Birdston, with occasional excursions into other parts of the south. In 
the last year of his life he spent several weeks along the Mississippi gulf 
coast, making large collections and preparing a list of the plants of 
that region. His herbarium was also enriched by the collections of 
botanical friends and others in whom his own devotion had inspired 
an interest in plants. Dr. Joor was a correspondent of Vasey, Engel- 
mann, Mohr, Chapman, and other botanists of this country. He was 
the first collector of several new southern plants. Though he described 
none himself, his herbarium notes show that some afterward described 
by others were recognized by him as new. Among others of which he 
was the first discoverer, Panicum Joortt Vasey, Carex Joorit Bailey, 
Barbula Jooriana Miiller, and Euphorbia corollata Joorii Norton, bear 
his name.—J. B. S. Norton, Missouri Botanical Garden. 
FOUR GENERATIONS OF BOTANISTS IN ONE FAMILY. 
Ir is seldom that the names of more than one generation of a 
family appear in connection with any one branch of scientific research. 
The history of science appears to show that genius or ability is not 
handed down, at least to any remarkable degree, in most families from 
one generation to another. Asa general thing the pursuit of science 
is not lucrative enough to keep more than one generation from becom- 
ing paupers, and even where there is some wealth and ability the suc- 
