AMERICAN FERN Society 93 
Salient Features of Hawaiian Botany, ready for press. A paper de- 
livered before Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference, Honolulu, T. H., 
August 1920. 
Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry, a member of the Amer- 
ican Fern Society since 1893, died in the Dickinson 
Hospital at Northampton, Mass., February 6, 1921, after 
an illness of about a year. 
Mrs. Terry was the youngest daughter of President 
Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College, and was born 
in the President’s house at Amherst, Massachusetts, 
November 9, 1837. She graduated from Mount Holyoke 
College in the class of 1859, and soon after married the 
Reverend Cassius M. Terry. After the death of Mr. 
Terry in Minnesota, Mrs. Terry returned to Northamp- 
ton and became matron of Hubbard House, Smith Col- 
lege. She held this position for twenty-five years and 
after her retirement continued to live in Northampton 
the remaining eight years of her life. During all this 
time she exerted a strong influence in the college and 
community. 
Mrs. Terry was an accomplished botanist and made 
some very interesting discoveries of plants new to New 
England and of new stations for rare plants. Her her- 
barium of flowering plants and a remarkable series of 
paintings of wild flowers made by her in early life were 
presented to Smith College. Her special interest and 
study however, was ferns. She early formed a friend- 
ship with Mr. George B. Davenport, and in her little 
fern garden in front of Hubbard House she had growing 
some of the rarest of American ferns which Mr. Daven- 
port had given her. Among these were; Aspidiwm 
spinulosum, variety concordianum (Davenp.) Eastman; 
Aspidium pittsfordense Slosson, later found to be a 
hybrid between A. spinulosum (O. F. Mueller) Sw. and 
A. marginale (L.) Sw.; and Dicksonia punctilobula 
