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over the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 
and he was twice, for considerable periods, President of the 
New York Lyceum of Natural History, which was in those 
days one of the foremost of our scientific societies. It has been 
said of him that the sole distinction on which he prided him- 
self was his membership in the order of the Cincinnati, the 
only honor in this country which comes by inheritance. 
As to the customary testimonial which the botanist receives 
from his fellows, it is fortunate that the first attempts were 
nugatory. Almost in his youth a genus was dedicated to him 
by his correspondent, Sprengel: this proved to be a Oleroden- 
dron, misunderstood. A second, proposed by Rafinesque, was 
founded on an artificial dismemberment of Cyperus. The 
ground was clear, therefore, when, thirty or forty years ago, a 
new and remarkable evergreen tree was discovered in our own 
Southern States, which it was at once determined should bear 
Dr. Torrey’s name. More recently a congener was found in the 
noble forests of California. Another species had already been 
recognized in Japan, and lately a fourth in the mountains of 
Northern China. All four of them have been introduced and 
are greatly prized as ornamental trees in Europe. So that, all 
round the world, Zorreya taxifolia, Torreya Californica, Torreya 
nucifera, and Torreya grandis—as well as his own important 
contributions to botany, of which they are a memorial—should 
keep our associate’s memory as green as their own perpetual 
verdure. 
Art. XLV.— Contributions from the Sheffield Laboratory of Yale 
College. No. XXVI.—On a compact Anglesite from Arizona ; 
by Geo. J. Brusu. 
having observed this anomalous substance, sent some specimens 
cotnpact anglesite. Subsequently Mr. Trautwine kindly pro- 
vided me with more specimens, and a quantitative examination 
