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whose names, abbreviated to Mx. or Michx. are ap- 
pended as the discoverers or describers of many of the 
plants in my lists. The elder Michaux came to this 
country in 1785 and traveled here extensively during 
nine years, collecting indefatigably. In 1803, a year 
after his death, his ‘“‘Flora of North America,” the first 
of its kind, was published. His son, who had also re- 
sided and traveled here for several years, in addition to 
other works, published at Paris in 1819, in three vol- 
umes, the North American Sylva, “A Description of 
the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova 
Scotia.” In 1859, two volumes by Thomas Nuttall 
were added as a supplement to this work unique in its 
kind, but now about to be supplanted by the great work 
of Prof. C. S. Sargent in course of publication. 
The two Michaux not only devoted a large part of 
their lives to the exploration of our forests but showed 
their abiding love for this study by leaving two legacies 
for the purpose of encouraging the study of sylviculture 
in the United States. It is pleasant in this connection 
to read this brief extract from the will of the younger 
Michaux, dated September 4, 1855: ‘“ Wishing to recog- 
nize the services and good reception and the cordial hos- 
pitality which my father and myself together and separ- 
ately have received during our long, and often perilous, 
travels in all the extent of the United States, as a mark 
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