BRIEFER ARTICLES 



LUCIEN MARCUS UNDERWOOD 



(with portrait) 



The editors of the Botanical Gazette wish to make this brief record 

 of the life and work of a distinguished American botanist and an intimate 

 personal friend. The papers prepared for the memorial meeting of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, held January 29, 1908, have been published in the 



Bidletin of that club (35:i-43- 

 1908), so that a full account is not 



necessary here. ' 



Professor Underwood was born 

 October 26, 1853, at New Wood- 

 stock, N. Y., and died at Redding, 

 Conn., November 16, 1907. He 

 graduated at Syracuse University in 

 1877, and held the following college 

 and university positions: Hedding 

 College (1880), Illinois Wcsleyan 

 University (1880-1883), Syracuse 

 University (1883-1890), De Pauw 



University (1890-1895), Alabama 



Pol>-technic Institute (1895-1896), 

 Columbia University (1896-1907)- 



ork was with the 



His chief w^ 



ated 



the 



Pteridophytes, and the repe 

 editions of Our native Jems bore 

 testimony to his early activity and to the popularity of the book. This 

 work laid the foundation for the larger and more serious interest in 

 ' ~ group which bore abundant fruit in his maturer years. The 

 Hepaticae were also included in the range of his professional interest; 

 andjhe Fungi also shared in his contributions. His bibliography, as pub- 

 lished m the memorial proceedings referred to, includes 212 titles, 188 of 



are botanical; and among these 78 deal with Pteridophytes, 31 with 

 Hep^ticae, and 29 with Fungi. 



is the loss to American botany, the personal loss will be felt 



which 



Great 



still more keenly by his colleagu 

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es. He was eminently a companio 



nable 

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