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practical charge of the important collections of bryophytes, 

 algae and fungi at the Museum d'Histoire Xaturelle in Paris, 

 will be mourned by the numerous American botanists who have 

 enjoyed his courteous and helpful cooperation in their taxonomic 

 studies. 



Charles Horton Peck, for more than 45 years the State 

 Botanist for New York, died on July 10, 1917, in his eighty- 

 fifth year. He was widely known for his studies of fungi. 



