422 Scientific Intelligence. 
T. Carey, who was also addicted to Botany. Both, we believe, 
were Fellows of the Linnean Society, and were near friends of 
Thomas Bell, afterwards the president of that society, who also 
lived to a good old age, dying only a few weeks earlier than the 
subject of this notice. Sa ‘arey remained in the city of 
York, in active business, and so was only an amateur bota- 
nist. His brother John, went into the country, first to Towanda, 
in the northern part of Pennsylvania, then to Bellows Falls, Ver- 
mont, where, giving much of his leisure to botanical pursuits, he 
resided until the year 1836, when he removed to New York, upon 
the entrance of his sons into Columbia College. He did not enter 
into business, but his administrative talents and great worth were 
a 
ent writer was generously and greatly assisted b m 
many critical studies. The proofs of the writer’s first botanical 
ook were revised b and to the first edition of the Manual 
b 
ocean also, Mr. Carey’s first herbarium was destroyed by a calam- 
itous fire in New York, at the time of the death of his youngest 
son. American botanists vied with each other in the endeavor t0 
this honored name, among them a Saxifrage, which was disco 
upon the excursion to the mountains of North Carolina, where the 
survivor of the party re-collected it last summer. The almost sole 
survivor of a botanical circle, of which Torrey was the center, 
