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sister, Jane R. Torrey, died on December 14, last. Dr. Herbert 

 J. Torrey, a brother of the recently deceased Misses Torrey, 

 is the only surviving member of the family of Dr. John Torrey, 

 the founder of the Torrey Club. 



Addison Brown, for many years president of the Torrey Club, 

 died on April 9, at his home on West 89th Street. He was born 

 February 21, 1830, in West Newbury, Essex County, Mass. The 

 son of Addison and Catharine Babson GrifHn Brown, his ancestors 

 on both sides were among the early settlers of that state, the 

 Rev. John Rogers, on his mother's side, having been a graduate 

 of Harvard College in 1649, and its president in 1682, another 

 ancestor being Thomas Dudley, second Governor of Massachu- 

 setts. In 1848, he entered Amherst College, and in 1849 joined 

 the sophomore class at Harvard, where he graduated second in 

 rank, in 1852. For twenty years he served with distinction as 

 judge of the United States District Court for the southern 

 district of New York. He devised the charter of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, and his subsequent services to that institution 

 have been very great. He was president of the garden at the 

 time of his death. In 1896-8, he published with Dr. N. L. 

 Britton the well-known " Illustrated Flora." Besides the Torrey 

 Club, Judge Brown was a member of the New York Geographical 

 and Historical Societies, of the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, 

 and the Sons of the American Revolution. His largest public 

 bequest, estimated at $21,750, is to the New York Botanical 

 Garden. He gives that organization 200 shares of United States 

 Steel preferred, to be known as the Addison Brown fund, "the 

 income from which shall be applied to the founding of a high 

 class magazine bearing my name, to be devoted exclusively to 

 illustration by colored plates of the plants of the United States 

 and its territorial possessions." 



Mr. 'J. T. Sarvis, instructor in botany at the South Dakota 

 State College, has resigned to enter the service of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, with headquarters at the 

 dry land experiment station at Ardmore, South Dakota. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and party have returned from a 

 three months' botanical exploration of the West Indies. 



