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which occurred at Hartford, Connecticut, on June ii, in her 

 forty-ninth year. Miss Lorenz had been a member of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club since 1906. She was a member also of 

 several other scientific organizations, such as the Vermont 

 Botanical Club and the Connecticut Botanical Society, of the 

 latter of which she had served as treasurer and recording secre- 

 tary. In recognition of her work she had been made a fellow of 

 The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Miss Lorenz was unusually versatile and accomplished. Be- 

 sides being a keen and active botanist, she was a good draughts- 

 man, a linguist, and a musician. Her impromptu song recitals 

 and piano solos will be remembered with pleasure by many who 

 attended field meetings of the Vermont Botanical Club and the 

 Connecticut Botanical Society or who enjoyed the privilege of 

 visiting her home. 



Miss Lorenz's botanical interests developed very early. 

 Possibly the summers spent in her young girlhood at Willoughby 

 Lake, Vermont, where she came into the sphere of influence of 

 Dr. George G. Kennedy and Mr. Edwin Faxon, had something 

 to do with directing her attention to the treasures of the plant 

 world. Her first published paper, at the age of sixteen, is said 

 to have been a flora of the grounds of the Hartford High School. 

 Her special interests centered later on the bryophytes and more 

 especially on the Hepaticae. About thirty papers were publish- 

 ed by her, mostly in The Bryologist, Rhodora, and the Bulletin 

 of the Vermont Botanical Club. One on " Jungermannia in New 

 Hampshire" appeared in Torreya for March, 1908, and one, 

 entitled "Vegetative Reproduction in the New England 

 Frullaniae" was published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club for June, 1912. She never ventured to propose a species as 

 "new," but she published critical notes on many and added 

 many to the New England lists of Hepaticae and several to the 

 list of species previously known as occurring in America. While 

 the present writer was preparing his account of the Ricciaceae for 

 the North American Flora, she sent to him from various parts of 

 New England living specimens which were kept under cultiva- 

 tion for a time at The New York Botanical Garden and were of 

 much service in preparing descriptions. The herbarium of Miss 

 Lorenz has been given by her father to Yale University. She 

 left also a collection of drawings, in part colored, of all the known 



