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species of New England Hepaticae. Best of all, she leaves many 

 enduring memories of generous enthusiasms and loyal friend- 



Marseiai.i, a. Howk. 



LEWIS HENRY LIGHTHIPE 



Lewis Henry Lighthipe was born at Orange, New Jersey, 24 

 January 1843. He graduated from Columbia University in 1863, 

 and from the General Theological Seminary, New York City, in 

 in 1866, receiving his master's degree from Columbia in the same 

 year. He at once entered the ministry of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal church, being ordained in 1866 by W. H. Odenheimer, 

 bishop of New Jersey. His clerical career was chiefly in the 

 states of New York and New Jersey, but from 1894 to 1899 he 

 was located at South Jacksonville, Florida. 



Mr. Lighthipe was an enthusiastic amateur botanist. He 

 became a corresponding member of the Torrey Botanical Club in 

 1885, and was elected an active member 8 February 1887. He 

 was notably faithful in his devotion to the interests of the Club, 

 attending the meetings with much regularity until the infirmities 

 of advancing age made it necessary for him to give up the trips 

 from his New Jersey home, and finally led him to resign. His 

 resignation was accepted 13 January 1920, and the minutes 

 record the fact that "in recognition of his thirty-four years of 

 faithful service in the Club, it was voted to transfer his name to 

 the list of corresponding members." 



He was a charming man and a pleasing speaker, but so modest 

 and unassuming that his name rarely appeared as a botanical 

 writer. The only scientific paper with his name as author seems 

 to be one of a single page, entitled "Notes on the New Jersey 

 flora," published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 for January 1886 ; but his name appears frequently in the minutes 

 of the Club in connection with brief notes, and at the meeting of 

 14 April 1903 he presented a paper on "The flora of the pine- 

 barrens of New Jersey," of which the abstract (in Torreya) 

 occupies two printed pages. Many specimens, from New Jersey 

 and Long Island, collected by him are now in the Local Flora 

 herbarium, and he collected plants also during his residence in 

 Florida. His personal herbarium of about 7000 specimens was 

 sold in 1920 to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



