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excellence and beauty, and in lavish abundance for the purpose of sup- 
plying all who could need them. Dr. Short’s disinterested activity in 
might be expected, Dr. Short’s own herbarium is a model of taste and 
heatness, It is also large and important. To one himself so solicitous 
“to do good and to communicate,” contributions from numerous sources 
naturally flowed in abundantly. He, moreover, subscribed to all the 
Open to be consulted by botanists. It will there form an excellent and 
Conspicuous nucleus for a collection of American herbaria, such as our 
Science needs, and the country ought to possess. 
The natural effects upon his scientific career of a fastidious taste, an 
unwarrantable diffidence. and a too retiring disposition, were enhanced 
by a constitutional tendency to depression of spirits. But this never 
obscured the native kindness of bis heart, and the real, though so qui 
Seniality of his disposition, or checked an unobtrusive and consic ; 
hor even cynical. All who knew him well, and also his more intimate 
correspondents who never enjoyed the privilege of a personal acquaint- 
ance, can testify to the nobility and Christian excellence of his character. 
PPpreciative tribute to his memory, from the pen of a former colleague, 
