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tuition, and was graduated at Williams in the class of 1827. Three 
years afterward he went to Wilmington, North Carolina, as a 
tutor in the family of Governor Dudley, while at the same time 
he studied divinity. There he resided until the year 1841, with 
the exception of a year and a half passed with his father in Charles- 
town. In the autumn of 1834, he married Miss De Rosset, of 
Wilmington, who survives him. He took holy orders at Richmond, 
Virginia, in the summer of 1835; became rector of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church at Hillsborough, North Carolina, in 1841, and 
fulfilled the duties of this station for the remainder of his life, with 
the exception of ten years, from 1847 to 1857, during which he 
had the pastoral charge of a parish at Society Hill, South Carolina. 
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by the 
r. Curtis’s attention must have early been attracted to botany, 
and his predilection fixed by his residence at Wilmington, one of 
the richest and most remarkable botanical stations in the United 
States. For it was in the year 1834, after only three years’ resi 
dence there, that he communicated to the Boston Society of Natu- 
ral History his first botanical work, namely, his “ Enumeration of 
—Dr. Curtis corrected the account of the mode of its wonderful 
action which had prevailed since the time of Linneus, an 
confirmed the statement and inferences of the first scientific 
describer, Ellis, namely, that this plant not only captures insects, 
but consumes them, enveloping them in a mucilaginous fluid which 
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some of which are large, and all are important, were mainly pub- 
lished by the American Philosophical Society, and by the Linnean 
Society of London. Several of them are the joint productions of 
Dr. Curtis and of the able English mycologist het Berkeley. 
