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58 The Botanical Gazette. [February, — 
piano. I gloated over them. Here were some of the very 
things from ‘Oneida Co., N. Y.,’ mentioned in Dr. Torrey’s 
Flora! What rare and valuable authentic material!” 
In 1857 he was married to Katherine Hancock at Barre, 
Massachusetts, and it was shortly after this that the whole 
family moved away from Fountaindale, and for a few years 
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bebb lived in various parts of the state, 
in Odin and Salem, southern Illinois, and in Springfield. At 
these places he made extensive collections of plants. In 1859 
he made a trip east and derived fresh inspiration from meet- 
ing Dr. Asa Gray. At Springfield, Massachusetts, he at- 
tended a meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, where he met the eminent botanists of 
the day, and he returned home with new and enlarged ideas 
as to what to do and how to do it. Nobody was more ready 
to profit by the advice and experience of others. 
Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. William Bebb after leaving Foun- 
taindale went to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Mr. Bebb prac- 
tised law and interested himself in a Welsh colony which was 
starting in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. At the out- 
it was a period of intense botanical delight and activity with 
him. He quickly became acquainted with the leading s¢i- 
entific men of the city, joined the Naturalists’ Club, collected 
plants eagerly during his hours of leisure, carried on a large 
correspondence with the botanical world and made copious €* 
changes. He soon became the intimate friend of Mr. William 
M. Canby, and his many letters to this well-known botanist 
vations. He paid special attention to the difficult genus Ju™ 
cus and illustrated his notes by careful drawings of detal’s 
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