BRICFER ARTICLES. 
DAVID FISHER DAY 
(WITH PORTRAIT) 
Jupce Davip F. Day, who died on August 21, 1900, was born in 
_ huffalo, N. Y., in 1829, and his whole life was spent in that city. For 
more than fifty years he was engaged in the practice of the law, in 
which profession he held high rank. 
His love of nature, which was that of an enthusiast, early led him 
tothe study of the natural sciences, 
im which he became most profi- 
Gent. As a field botanist he was 
ticelled by few. Gifted with a 
*markable memory and a particu- 
‘tly clear conception of the rela- 
lionships of families and genera, 
3 he was able to place a new plant 
4 with a facility that I have seldom 
wn equaled. His methods of 
fact that h 
© Was not a professional 
s 
Seems to have deterred him from publishing many of his 
Pee ee deductions, which were of great interest and pet 
ay with Judge Clinton he made a thorough study of a 
Butial Ry ne result appeared in “A catalogue of the plants . 
plants “icinity,” published in 1883. Later he prepared a list 0 
q ‘lished gg on the reservation at Niagara Falls, which was pub- 
i 
as 
the state, He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Society 
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