CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PARRY l8l 



Morehead, on an excursion into Central Iowa, 

 in the vicinity of the present state capital. From 

 this time on (except for a short period while 

 connected with the Mexican Boundary Survey, 

 discharging the duties of assistant surgeon), the 

 physician was merged in the naturalist. He was 

 almost continuously in the field, collecting; but 

 Davenport, Iowa, remained his nominal home. 

 Here, in 1853, he married Sarah M. Dalzell, who 

 died five years later and left him with an only 

 child — a daughter, who died at an early age. 



In 1859 he married Mrs. E. R. Preston, of 

 Westford, Connecticut, who for more than thirty 

 years shared his work. 



In the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy 

 of Science, vol. ii. Parry gives a chronological 

 account of his work up to 1878. The greater 

 part of his time was spent in observing and col- 

 lecting along the St. Peters and up the St. Croix, 

 to Monterey, in the mountains of Colorado and 

 California, as he was interested in a special study 

 of the Alpine flora of North America. Then 

 this energetic man set out with a Pacific Railroad 

 Survey through New Mexico, ending in Mexico 

 about San Luis Potosi and Monterey. Time was 

 required to sort the spoils of years, so the winter 

 of 1852 was spent in Washington, preparing his 

 Report as Botanist to the Mexican Boundary 

 Survey. It took three years, when he was offici- 



