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es n they have cae exhausted the easier of the district the 
are confined to, are liable to sink into inactivity. Dr. Sartwe 
avoided this destiny, and prolonged. to the seat his enjoyment and 
usefulness, by making a speciality of the great genus Carex. Dew- 
ey, Torrey, Tuckerman, Carey, Boott, all who have published with- 
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ublished nothing else, we pbeliawes sist olla a Catalogue “of the 
lants growing in the vicinity of Penn Yan; but he contributed 
no little to the — of the publications of others, especially to 
those of the writer of this notice and to the Flora of the State of 
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‘Professor HESTER Drwey, died at ¢ Heosbester; xe York, - 
cember 13, having completed ‘the 83d year of his a age. “ He w 
born at Sheftield, Massachusetts, Oct. 25, 17 ie was — at 
Williams College i in 1806 ; studied for the nistry ; was licensed 
to preach in 1808, and du uring the latter half . of that veut "officiated 
in Tyringham in Western _Massachusetts. e same year he ac- 
he discharged for seventeen y During his connection with 
the Gultace he did much to advance the standard of scholarship 
yeer he faeecak: : this city Rochester}, eh, became princip 
Rochester Collegiate Institute, which post he held until 
ed Professor i phi- 
-seven, though he continued to a te some extent till 
tieth B hiss The last four years he h Sipser easy and 
Ha igh Fe a in the society of of hie family and frends, 
