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to the tune of $2,050. No publisher would take it, 
and assume the expense, so I have to carry it myself 
and botanists must buy it, if they want it. I hope 
many botanists and libraries will do so; for I must 
get the outlay back again, or a good part of it, before 
I goon. Hence, notices in the scientific journals and 
elsewhere may be serviceable to me. 
I will not speak of or count the time and hard labor 
I have bestowed on the work. 
My last visit to Washington was a sad one, to at- 
tend the funeral of my dear old friend Professor 
Joseph Henry, to whom we are all greatly indebted. 
When I saw him in January, at the annual meeting 
of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, it was 
too evident that he would not much longer be with us 
As may be remembered, Dr. Gray, when in Paris 
in 1839, found in Michaux’s herbarium a plant which 
he describes as new, giving it the name of Shortia 
galacifolia, in honor a his old friend Dr. Short of 
Louisville, Ky. One great object of his later journeys 
to the southern Alleghanies was the search for this 
plant. No botanist bad succeeded in rediscovering 
it, and many doubted if Dr. Gray had not been mis- 
taken, though he found among Japanese plants, sent 
from St. Petersburg, one of the same genus, with a 
rude Japanese woodcut. It was therefore a great 
triumph when it was accidentally discovered by an 
herb-eollector, Mr. Hyams, in North Carolina. The 
next journey to the mountains, in 1879, was planned 
to search for it especially. 
An account of the rediscovery and a description of 
the plant is given in “ American Journal of Science,” 
iii., xvi., pp. 483, 1878. Mr. Sargent repeats the story 
