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try by any one else and, in Switzerland, by only one Ger- 
man botanist. The finding of this hybrid was assuredly 
her greatest botanical achievement. I remember well 
her de ight when she discovered growing by her doorstep 
the rare hybrid Aspidium pittsjordense, which had been 
produced naturally. It certainly seemed as if things of 
botanica interest ahs: toward her. 
To. those who knew Miss Woolson, no estimate of her 
life would be complete sea a mention of her pet tree- 
toads, which she kept for many years and which she had 
tra ned to perform several little feats; and of her cats, 
which were to her almost human personalities and which 
responded to her devotion in a manner that made them 
appear to belong to a superior race of felines. 
Miss Woolson was born in Pittsford, Vt., on he 17th 
of October 1856. She was graduated at the High School 
in Springfield, Vt., and at Kimball Union Academy, at 
Meriden, N. H. She taught for several years in the vicin-- 
ity of Pittsford, but failing health eompelled her to— 
abandon that profession. Her love of nature induced 
her to enter upon the more scientific work, to which she 
devoted herself until the time of her death, June 23, 10tt. 
N Losmemahiat — 
Notes and news 
in. connection with a study of. the ined distribu Hon of : 
some of the common North American Ferns, Prof. E. 
Winslow, Auburndale, Mass., would appreciate any infor- : 
-™ation sent him on the distribution of the ebony spl : 
wort, inclu si, definite deseriptions « of ee per 
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