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A letter received recently from his grandson, 

 Dr. Edward Baldwin Gleason, is not without 

 interest: 



" October 30, 191 2. 

 "My dear Dr. Kelly: 



" Your letter of the 24th relative to my grand- 

 father, Dr. William Baldwin, reached me. I 

 went with Dr. Seneca Egbert to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences and was shown some dried 

 plants gathered by my grandfather in Georgia 

 and the Bermudas about 100 years ago. These 

 plants, a part of the von Schweinitz collection, 

 were in an elegant state of preservation and com- 

 pared somewhat favorably with plants of the 

 same family recently collected by a member of 

 the Academy. 



" Nuttall's name for the plant he named after 

 grandfather was Baldwinia uniflora. The fol- 

 lowing is from Genera of North American Plants 

 and a catalogue of species to the year iSlJ , by 

 Thomas Nuttall, F. L. 8., Philadelphia, 18 18, p. 



175- 



" ' 688. Baldwinia. Calex imbricated, foli- 



acious and squarrose; rays rubrifed; receptacle 

 hemispherical, corneous, cellular, seeds im- 

 mersed, pappus foliacious, awnless, erect, about 

 ten-leaved. Dedicated as a just tribute of respect 

 for the talents and industry of William Baldwin, 

 M. D., late of Savannah, Georgia, a gentleman 



