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accompanying biographical notice is by his companion in Ameri- 
can travel, Professor Gray, but was written in May, and was in 
“type before Sir J — reached this country. The same number 
Nature contains two pages of Notes on the Botany of the 
Rocky Mountains, a brief sketch, drawn up by him on the — 
ward vo 
5 nie ree Hap y, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 
versity of Buffalo, died, at Buffalo o, N. Y., Oct. 16, in the 63d year 
of his age. So passes to his rest the last and the oldest of the 
three gifted sons of gifted and most excellent parents. The sub- 
ject of this notice, called to a less conspicuous position, did not 
attain the eminence of his brother James, but rather follos wed in 
., at Fairfield, then at Geneva, and lastly at Buffalo, 
where his son succeeded him. The father and the son were singu- 
larly alike, model teachers and model men, truthful to the core 
and loveable exceedingly, modest and quiet a ree that 
musked from the world their ability and their learning: but these 
traits could not be hidden from those who in nerations 
came under their influence and shared their abiding friendship. 
From the father the writer of these lines received, you 
of sixteen, his first help as a student of botany, and later his first 
encouragement in essaying a scientific career. He would lay this 
tribute to the memory of both father and son fees the sons rag 
ey. uy receive the mortal remains of the : 
N Darsy, who graduated in 1831 at Williams allen 
ark fe North Adams, Mas s., Sept. 27, 1804. His life was cee 
y years in G orgia Female College at Mac on. He filled 
the ae of Mathematics for one year in Williams College: his 
alma mater. om this chair Professor non went to Auburn 
in Alabama as Davies of Chemistry and Natural History in the 
East Alabama College, where he Sed. pore his death in 
August, 1877. 
Professor Darby’s scientific work outside the time occupied in 
teaching—to whi ch he ever gave a most “ee aii kr and willing 
devotion—was chiefly in botany, of which science he was an 
enthusiastic student. In he published his “ pee of the 
Southern States,” in two : I. Structural and Physiological 
Botany and Vegetable Pious IL. Deseri ie ions of Southern 
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work, Dr. Gra (* is Journal, vol. xx, - “WI, 1855), on “the 
book is excellently planned, and is well adapted to its purpose 
—that of a text-book for the Colleges and High Schools of the 
