JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



THE WORK OF PROFESSOR LUCIEN MARCUS 

 UNDERWOOD. 



The success of a life work is measured by the character and 

 extent of its influence. When this work is embodied in the form 

 of such voluminous records for permanent reference as have been 

 left by Professor Underwood, it is important that its characteristics 

 should be generally recognized. This is the more necessary in 

 the present instance, because interest in many of the subjects 

 ^treated by this author is yet in its infancy, and the work known 

 to but few in comparison with those who will in future require its 



: A complete bibliography of Professor Underwood's writings is 

 in course of preparation by another ; it is the purpose of the 

 present contribution to make use of only such references as shall 

 illustrate the peculiar character and value of his work in general. 

 Professor Underwood was born on the 26th of October, 1853, 

 at New Woodstock, New York, of John Lincklaen and Jane H. 

 (Smith) Underwood. He died at his home in Redding, Connec- 

 ticut, November 16, 1907, and was buried in the Redding ceme- 

 tery. A copy of his latest photograph, taken a short time before 

 his death, is shown in the frontispiece. His boyhood was passed 

 upon the farm and his subsequent love of natural history was 

 here foreshadowed in his interest in living things and in the keen 

 and inquiring intelligence with which he observed them. Dur- 

 ing his student days these propensities were notable to his school- 

 mates, even to those who were not interested in the same sub- 



