﻿6 Memorial of Edward Tucherman. 



ture over an unusually wide range. He was at home in the 

 leading modern languages ; he wrote Latin with reasonable 

 facility, and botanical Latin remarkably well ; he had given 

 serious attention to law, divinity, philosophy, and history; and 

 he was fond of antiquarian and genealogical researches. He 

 privately published (without date) a handsome edition of Josse- 

 lyn's "New England's Earities Discovered," with copious crit- 

 ical annotations, of 134 pages, including an introduction of 27 

 pages, which contains a biography of Josselyn and a sketch of 

 the earlier sources of our knowledge of New England plants 

 and of some of the people who made them known.* Among 

 them is a biographical notice of Manasseh Cutler, one of the 

 very first elected Fellows of this Academy, the earliest botan- 

 ical contributor to its Memoirs, — pastor, naturalist, and states- 

 man, the builder of New England in Ohio, probably the orig- 

 inator of the Dane Resolutions in Congress, — a man whose 

 name deserves larger remembrance than it has yet received. 



Professor Tuckerman was elected into this Academy in May, 

 1845. He was one of the corporate members of the National 

 Academy of Sciences at Washington, and an honorary member 

 of several of the learned societies and academies of Europe. He 

 was still } 7 oung when Nuttall dedicated to him the genus 

 Tuchermania, founded upon one of the handsomer of Cali- 

 fornian Compositse, which holds as a subgenus. For one who 

 did not attain the age of sixty-seven, his publications span a 

 remarkably wide interval. It is said that he contributed sev- 

 eral short articles on antiquarian topics to the Mercantile 

 Journal in the year 1832. Also that, in 1832 and 1833, he 

 assisted the late Mr. Samuel Gr. Drake in the preparation of his 

 " Book of the Indians " and " Indian Wars." Then, between 

 1834 and 1841, he contributed to the New York Churchman 

 no less than fifty-four articles, under the title of " Notitia Lite- 

 raria" and "Adversaria," upon points in history, biography 

 and theology. His latest botanical article was contributed to 

 the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1884. A little 

 later, possibly, are some of his contributions to the Church 

 , Eclectic, mostly pseudonymous, — critical notices of recent theo- 

 logical works. He was a keen critic, and very independent in 

 his judgments. He had sounded in his time the depth of vari- 

 ous opinions. But as he was born into, so he died, as he had 

 lived, devoutly, in the communion of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. With some interruptions, and of late under increas- 

 ing infirmities, he yet continued his lichenological studies until 

 within a few weeks before the end. Living for a long while in 

 comparative seclusion, few of our younger botanists can have 



*It appears that this was a contribution to the fourth volume of the Archae- 

 ologia Americana, published in 1S60. 



