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re- elected until 1905, when he declined to serve longer in this 
positi 
ne tiie of the Torrey Botanical Club contain many 
notes and observations contributed by him from time to time. 
About the time of his election to the presidency of this Club, 
he proposed to Dr. N. L. Britton the preparation of an illustrated 
flora of the northern United States and Canada, took up the 
preparation of drawings and manuscript with great interest and 
enthusiasm, and the work was published in three volumes in 
1896, 1897 and 1898. The edition of this book was exhausted 
in 1909, and the preparation of a second edition was undertaken, 
which was completed a few days before his death. A compre- 
hensive paper entitled ‘The Elgin Botanical Garden and Its 
Relation to Columbia College and the New Hampshire Grants” 
was published i 
ovement a ae great botanical garden in New York City 
was initiated by the appointment of a Botanical Garden Com- 
mittee by the Torrey Botanical Club in November, 1888. Judg 
Brown was a member of that committee and participated in 
conferences with the Commissioners of Public Parks relative to 
land for the institution and, together with Chief Justice Charles 
P. Daly, framed the original charter of the New York Botanical 
Garden granted by the State Legislature in 1891, as well as the 
amended charter of 1894. He made the initial a. of 
twenty-five thousand dollars to the fund of two hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars required by the Commissioners of Parks 
before appropriating the land in Bronx Park in 18 sa 
member of the Board of Managers since its organization, he 
served first as Chairman of its Committee on Plans, then as 
Chairman of the Executive Committee, and was elected President 
welfare and development and his advice and counsel have been 
most valuable. 
he illustration of plants was his greatest interest, and several 
years ago he proposed the establishment of a periodical publica- 
tion devoted to such illustration in color, hoping to accomplis 
