414 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Cy1us Guernsey rage 
HAROLD GODDARD RUGG 
The botanical world has lost a well-known personage 
in the death, May 25, of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle. Born 
in Charlotte, Vt., May 6, 1838, Dr. Pringle had made — 
Vermont his home for nearly all his lifetime. Dr. Pringle 
was best known perhaps as a collector, and his herbarium 
of 100,000 specimens, now located at the University of 
- Vermont, is extremely rich in rare material. His col-_ 
lecting trips led him to Arizona, California, Oregon, Wash- — 
_ ington, and especially to Mexico, where he was official 
collector for the Mexican government. Since 1885, when _ 
this country had been suggested to him by Dr. Asa Gray, — 
it had been his special field. His winters were spent in — 
_ collecting material, which was sent to Vermont and there — 
: _ examined and distributed to various herbaria throughout : 
oe the world. | 
ie _ The late Mr. Gone pean tae cei the stadt a“ 
~ ferns i in 1873 and had written to Dr. Pringle to search — 
for Woodsia glabella R. Br. It had been found once in | 
aoe Vermont, at Lake Willoughby. Dr. Pringle states that d 
_ when he started on his search for this rare plant he did 
ee not know a single fern, but gradually he collected all the 
. ferns known to Vermont. In 1876 he made his first trip 
_ to Mt. Mansfield—that most wonderful, to the botanist, oe 
