SAFFORD: EpwarRD PALMER 147 
=e i ccs Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 10: 
500. Trp . S.. National Herbarium no. 
ies aes 398), idied in 1907 near Victoria, 
state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 
Potypoptum Maxonn C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 543. 1906. 
Polypodium firmulwm Maxon, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
7: 274. pl. 61. 7. 3. 1903; not Baker, 1893. Typx: 
’. S. National Herbarium no. 397906 (Palmer 448), 
col'eeted in 1902 in the mountains of Alvarez, state of 
San Luis Potosi, alt. 8,000 feet, from the shaded under 
sides of large oaks. 
PoLysTIcHUM soLITaRIUM (Maxon) Und. Contr. U. 8. 
solitarium Maxon, Fern Bull. 11: 39. 1903. Type: 
Palmer 102, collected in 1875 on the northern 
end of Guadalupe Island, off the Pacific ore fe - 
Lower California. 
_ Like the palmers of old, who returned from one sie : 
age only to start out afresh, he continued his chosen oe 
_ work until the very end. His last pilgrimage was in oe 
1910, to the vicinity of Tampico, on the Gulf of Mexico. — 
To the meeting of the Botanical Society of Washington — - 
already he was escorted in a carriage by mem- 
_ bers appointed for he purpose. He was placed in the e . : 
seat of honor, and addresses were made by Ley aS 
: Orie of his life’s work. Letters were also seer : 
oo ton, all of them testifying to the valuable servi : 8 
e red. At the close of the exercises he was: p 
