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ing flowering plants and ferns, with many more of his 
later collecting still remaining to be described. 
e was the son of a professional florist and horticultur- 
ist, of Hockwold cum Wilton, in the county of Norfolk, 
England, where he was born January 12, 1831. Coming 
to this country at the age of eighteen, he settled at 
Cleveland, Ohio, where he formed the acquaintance of - 
Dr. Jared Kirtland, one of the most eminent scientists 
of his day, and one of the earliest members of the Amer- 
lean Academy of Science. From him he learned the art 
of collecting and preserving objects of natural history, 
: “ thus laying the foundation of his future career, and 
through: Kirtland’s influence he was, in 1853, appointed 
a ae of the Water Witch, on her celebrated expedi- 
i to Paraguay, which led to our war with that coua- 
bh > WAS an ardent. and untiring collector, going on 
dition after another, and returning with material 
al, zodlogical nologie 
