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maintained by itself in the Kgl. Bot. Museum at Berlin. Each 

 specimen is numbered serially and all is thoroughly indexed so 

 that the collection is more readily accessible that any other of 

 the historic collections. The sheets enclosed in covers tied with 

 tape after the usual continental method, are arranged in volumes 

 of convenient size and stand side by .side in a special case in the 

 room used until recently by the late Professor Schumann for a 

 study. The sheets are a trifle larger than foolscap paper and the 

 plants are mostly in an excellent state of preservation. There is 

 sometimes a little doubt about his " types " being the originals on 

 which he based his species, as he is said at times to have given 

 away his originals in those species of which he afterwards secured 

 better material. Our own Muhlenberg was a correspondent of 

 Willdenow so that his collection includes many species from the 

 United States. 



WILLIAM MARRIOTT CANBY 



By H. II. Rushy 



Mr. William Marriott Canby, one of the foremost citizens of 

 Wilmington, as indeed of the State of Delaware, died on March 

 lo at Augusta, Georgia, to which place he had gone to recover 

 from the effects of a series of colds from which he had been 

 suffering during the winter. In his death, the botanical fraternity 

 of America loses one of its most genial associates, as well as one 

 of its keenest and most judicious discriminators of plant forms. 



Mr. Canby was born in Philadelphia, on March 17, 1831. His 

 early education was obtained in the schools, mostly private, of 

 Wilmington, whither his parents moved during his early childhood. 

 He afterward attended a Quaker institution at Chadd's Ford, on 

 the Brandywine. After his graduation, the state of his health 

 apparently demanding an out-of-door life, he engaged in agri- 

 culture, near Coatesville, Pa. This country life was chiefly 

 rcsi)onsiblc for the dcvclojomcnt of Mr. Canby's very great love 

 of plant-life, although inheritance, and an early association with 

 students of botany, had already given him a predilection for that 

 study. He studied and collected the local flora of Coatesville 

 and vicinity, and in iH'^S indulged in the great pleasure of a 



