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y on the 
chased, renewing his old interest and activity in making botanical 
is needless to say that Fendler was a quick and keen 
toe tmarked genus, a Saxifragaceous shrub, which is wi 
S Way into ornamental cultivation. 
Fendler’s death probably did not long precede that of his 
_ Patron and friend, 
of ea ENGELMANN, whose lamented decease, on the fourth 
J ebruary, 1883, at the age of 75, was announced in this 
a at the time; and whose biography is given in the July 
Phage There is also an interesting memorial in Science, 
- 4, by his friend and associate Professor Sargent. 
- AMUEL Botsrorp Bucxiry died at Austin, Texas, February 
» 1883, in the 75th year of his age. He was born in Yates Co., 
Many Species of his own discovery commemorate his name, as also 
nnin 
ti es becar r some 
ae 4 teacher, at first in Illinois, where his earliest botanical col- 
. ous were made, then in Alabama and some of the neighbor- 
n 
= 1860-62, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
