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THE 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, 
[THIRD SERIES] 
Art. lL—Witiiam S, Sunnivant; a Biographical Notice. 
(From the Annual Report of the Council of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, May, 1878.) 
Wittiam Srariine Subiivant died at his residence in 
Columbus, Ohio, on the 80th of April ult. In him we lose the 
most accomplished bryologist which this country has pro- 
duced ; and it can hardly be said that he leaves behind him any 
where a superior. isgebetees 
e was born, January 15th, 1803, at the little village of 
Franklinton, then a frontier settlement in the midst of primitive 
forest, near the site of the present city of Columbus. His 
ather, a Virginian, and a man of marked character, was ap- 
Athens, upon the opening of that seminary ; an ; 
transferred to Yale College, where he was graduated in the year 
1823. His plans for studying a profession were frustrated by 
the death of his father in that year. This required him to 
Am. Jour. Sct.—Tump Series, Vor, VI, No. 31.—Jury, 1873. 
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