Michael Schuck Bebb. 
WALTER DEANE. 
WITH A PORTRAIT.—PLATE IV. 
critical mind. He was a true student of nature. Accus- 
turned to botanical studies and in particular to the willows. 
_ His early training peculiarly fitted him to deal with a sub- 
ject that required most careful and patient work both in the 
= and in the study, and he treated that most difficult genus 
Saliz with a master mind. Mr. Bebb won a well-deserved 
‘*putation as the leading salicologist of this country and 
Europe, and his valuable contributions to science will remain 
‘Sa permanent memorial. Within the past few years our 
tanks have been sadly depleted by the death of many of the 
older botanists, men who wrought at the foundations of sys- 
tematic botany in this country, and to whom the younger 
g€neration owes everything. Our friend was one of these. 
unostentatiously, and with unremitting labor he did 
tok; and with sad but grateful hearts we pay our tribute 
° his memory. 
te year 1789, Edward Bebb, the grandfather of the sub- 
down tee notice, in company with his young bride floated 
eae € Ohio river in a flat-bottomed boat to start their new 
tee us Butler county, southern Ohio. The story of their 
Rivinn 7. a romantic one and deserves special mention. 
dome ye ebb was a Welshman and, on leaving his old home 
he ae before, to fight his way to success in the new world, 
Roberts % ind him a young girl, a native of Wales, Margaret 
for her ee whom he was engaged. He intended to return 
little & s when he had secured a home. There was but 
"munication between the two countries in those early 
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