2 William S. Sullivant. 
occupy himself with the care of the family property, then mainly 
in lands, mills, ete., and demanding much and varied attention. 
He became surveyor and practical engineer, and indeed took an 
active part in business down to a recent period. Leisure 1s 
hardly to be had in a newly-settled country, and least of all by 
those who have possessions. Mr. Sullivant must have reached 
of the Grasses and Sedges, entered into communication with the 
leading botanists of the country, and in 1840 he “eb tae ae 
e vicinity of 
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valuable notes. His only other direct publication in pheenoga- 
mous botany is a short article upon three new plants which he 
accompanied by the specimens themselves of Mosses and Hepa- 
tice collected in a botanical expedition through the Alleghany 
Mountains, from Maryland to Georgia, in the summer of 1843 
(the writer of this notice being hiscompanion.) The specimens 
were not only critically determined, but exquisitely prepa 
and mounted, and with letter-press of great perfection; the 
whole forming two quarto volumes, which well deserve the en- 
comium bestowed by Pritzel in his Thdésaurus.t It was not 
put on sale, but fifty copies were distributed with a free hand 
among bryologists and others who would appreciate it.{ 
* His first wife, Jane Marshall, of Kentucky, was a niece of Chief Justice Mar- 
She died a few years i 
+ “ Huie splendid impresse 292 specierum enumerationi accedit elegantissima 
speciminum omnium exsi collectio.” 
te tribute is justly due to the memory of the second Mrs. (Eliza G. Wheeler) 
vant, a lady of rare accomplishments, and, not least, a zealous and acute bryol- 
