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with a very few exceptions, have seeds or fruits easily dissemin- 
ated by wind or birds. This condition, and the small size of the 
deciduous trees in comparison with the hemlocks, suggest that 
this tract is a recent development, derived by an immigration 
into a favorable spot of certain species from the extensive hard- 
woods of the morainal hills three or four miles south. 
H. A. GLEASON. 
FRANCIS ALEXANDER SCHILLING 
Colonel Francis races oe eae of the Museum 
Building of the New Yor anical Garden, died at his home 
poe aaa He was in his ninety-first year, having been born 
twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in 
He came to New York when about eighteen ale of age. 
His military service was nearly continuous over many years 
from his enlistment as a private in the eadea | New York 
served as a Signal Officer, Reginental Adjutant and eee in 
the fifty-fifth regiment, and alah ae in the battles of York- 
illiamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, 
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ferred to a new position, that of Custodian of the Museum Build- 
ing, and this he occupied continuously to the day of his death. 
Colonel Schilling was esteemed and beloved by all who knew 
him, as an oe as a friend and asa m 
Resolved: That ee Board of Managers deplore 
their loss a that of the Garden, in the death of 
one of its oldest and most faithful officials, and 
