450 Scientific Intelligence. 
medicine, and completed his medical course in the schools of Scotland 
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Greene did not engage in the practice of either profession. «An ample 
inheritance, which rendered professional exertion unnecessary, conspit- 
ing with a perm aeg guiet and contemplative disposition, and a re- 
came antel: attached, and whom he was highly apprecia 
In botany, as in pm ‘Gis else, Mr. Greene sought a be silently 
useful. He never himself preeeer any of his discoveries or observa- 
tions. The few species to which his name is annexed were given to 
the world at emedieed But his collections were extensive, his 
eter so far as he could, ‘to su He athered a choi 
tanical library, he encouraged explorations, and he “eabictia to all the 
large purchasable North American collections,—beginning with those 
of Drummond in the Southern United States and in the then Mexican 
province of Texas. These, being distributed under numbers, amo 
the principal horbarts of the world, and named or referred to in mono- 
graphs or other botanical works, were of prime importance as standa rds 
of comparison. Such collections and such books as Mr. Greene brought 
together were dre the pj ig most needed at that time in this coun- 
try; and now, when our wants are somewhat better supplied, we should 
not forget the seiatilidl service which they have rendered, nor the dis- 
interested kindness with which their most amiable and excellent owner 
always cma them at the disposal of those who could ady ini ers! 
of which he was one of the pateye and the first President, —and Py 
which as ifck be preserved for the benefit of future New “ee 
botanists, by whom his memory should ever be age lly eeinge 
The genus Greenea, established by Wight and Arnott upon o rare 
Rubiaceous shrubs of India, barely anticipated a similar tinny 
ingly cultivat ; 
aye jes Clapp, of New Albany, Indiana, died on the 1 17th 0 a oot 
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, hor of his exact age, but we suppose he had my or quite reached 
ree-score years a eeigape Pa ahasg botanical pu “one 
merit nd importance viz., A s or Systematic Catalogue sf 
inal Plants of the Dakied, ‘Siater, which forms an 8vo volume 
