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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



Art. I. — Memorial of Edward Tuckerman ; by Asa Gray.* 



On the 15th of March last, the Academy lost one of the 

 older and more distinguished members of the botanical section, 

 the Lichenologist, Edward Tuckerman. 



He was born in Boston, December 7, 1817, was the eldest 

 son of a Boston merchant of the same name and of Sophia 

 (May) Tuckerman. He was prepared for college at the Boston 

 Latin School, whence, in obedience to his father's choice rather 

 than of his own, he went to Union College at Schenectady. En- 

 tering as a Sophomore, he took his B.A. degree in 1837. He 

 then entered the Harvard Law School, took his degree in 1839, 

 and remained in residence in Cambridge for a year or two 

 longer. In the year 1841 he went to Germany and Scandina- 

 via, going as far north as Upsala, devoting himself, as in a sub- 

 sequent visit, to philosophical, historical, and botanical studies. 

 On his return, in September, 1842, he made, with the writer of 

 this notice, a botanical excursion to the White Mountains of 

 New Hampshire, with which he was already familiar. At the 

 close of that or early in the following year he took up his resi- 

 dence at Union College, proceeded to the M.A. degree, and 

 there prepared and privately published one of the smaller, but 

 noteworthy, of his botanical papers. 



In the year 1844 or 1845 he returned to Cambridge, and in 

 the autumn of 1846, in his twenty-ninth year, he became again 



* From the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 

 xxi, 1886. 



Am. Jour. Sci.— Third Series, Yol. XXXII, No. 187.— July, 1886. 



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