WOMEN BOTANISTS OF OHIO. 99 



Mrs. Wormley acquired the art of engrav- 

 ing that she might assist her husband in his 

 scientific pursuits. 



Dr. W. A. Kellerman, botanist of the Ohio 

 State University, in the Preface to his "Ele- 

 ments of Botany," acknowledges the assistance 

 of his wife. The botanical work, and especially 

 the scientific articles by Mrs. Kellerman, place 

 her in the foremost rank of Ohio botanists. She 

 has assisted in her husband's work, including 

 nearly all of his publications, and been a con- 

 stant contributor for several years to period- 

 icals devoted to natural science. 



Mrs. Sarah S. James was the assistant of 

 her husband. Prof. Joseph James, in his botan- 

 ical labors. 



Mrs. Laura Morgan, of Preston, Ohio, is, as 

 well as her husband, a noted authority on 

 Fungi. She has made a fine collection — ^her- 

 barium, we may call it — of paintings of the 

 Higher fungi, probably the largest and best of 

 the kind in the world, and of rare scientific 

 value. Her work in plant portraiture and 

 botanical acquirements is commemorated in the 

 scientific name of an interesting wild Ohio 

 mushroom, the Hygrophorus Lcmrae. 



Miss Hannah J. Biddlecome has done an 

 invaluable service to science ty making known 

 to the botanists the rich flora of mosses and 



