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of all within hearing. He admitted that it was one 
of the best lessons in the art of writing he ever els 
Dr. Gray, writing for the “ New York World” 
obituary notice of John Carey, on his osama in 1880, 
says of him, after a short sketch of his life 
“Mr. Carey was a man of marked gifts, « accom- 
plishments, ee individuality. His name will long be 
remembered in American botany.- There are few of 
his contemporaries in this country who have done 
more for it than he, although he took little part in 
independent publication. His critical knowledge and 
taste and his keen insight were most useful to me in 
my earlier days of botanical authorship. He wrote 
several valuable articles for the journals, and when, in 
1848, my ‘Manual of Botany’ was produced, he 
contributed to it the two most difficult articles, that 
on the willows and that on the sedges. . . . 
“ Being fondly attached to his memory, and almost 
the last survivor of the notable scientifie circle which 
Mr. Carey adorned, I wish to pay this feeble tribute 
to the memory of a worthy botanist and a most genial, 
true-hearted, and good man.” 
It is to be regretted that Dr. Gray’s letters to his 
old friend are no longer in existence. 
His correspondence with Sir William Jackson 
Hooker, then professor at Glasgow, Scotland, began 
in 18365. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
BrIpGEWATER, OnErpA County, N. Y., January 1, 1831. 
Dear Srr,—lI received your letter, through Pro- 
fessor Hadley, a few weeks since, and I embrace the 
earliest opportunity of transmitting a few specimens 
of those plants of which you wished a further supply. 
