THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 5I 



American plants, whose efforts have in more ways than one helped 

 to bring the noble science of botany to its present advanced state. 

 Among them are Bartram, Michaux, Muhlenberg, Pursh, Eaton, 

 Nuttall, Torrey, Bigelow, and, last but greatest, the late, lamented 

 Dr. Asa Gray, at whose death, so recently as January, 1888, our 

 society expressed by unanimous resolution its deep regret. 



