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sel was sent to make some exploration of that Island, and Mr. 

 Wright went with it. It was in winter, the dry season, and 

 the excursion across the country was hurried and unsatisfac- 

 tory ; so the small collection made in this, his last distant botan- 

 izing, was not of much account. 



Mr. Wright's botanizing days were now essentially over. 

 He made, indeed, a visit to the upper part of Georgia in the 

 spring of 1875. But this was mainly for recuperation from the 

 effects of a transient illness, and for seeing again a relative and 

 companion of his youth from whom he had long been separated. 

 A large part of several years was passed at Cambridge, taking 

 a part of the work of the Gray Herbarium ; and one winter was 

 passed at the Bussey Institution, in aiding his associate of the 

 South Pacific cruise, Professor Storer. Of late there fell to 

 him the principal charge of the family at Wethersfield, consist- 

 ing of a brother who had become an invalid, and of two sisters 

 in feeble health, all unmarried and ageing serenely together. By 

 degrees his own strength was sapped by some organic disease 

 of the heart, which had given him serious warning ; and on the 

 eleventh of August he suddenly succumbed, while making his 

 usual round at evening to look after the domestic animals of 

 the homestead. Not returning when expected, he was sought 

 for ; the body was found as if in quiet repose, but the spirit had 

 departed. * 



Mr. Wright was in person of low stature and well-knit frame, 

 hardy rather than strong, scrupulously temperate, a man of 

 simple ways, always modest and unpretending, but direct and 

 downright in expression, most amiable, trusty, and religious. 

 He accomplished a great amount of useful and excellent work 

 for botany in the pure and simple love of it ; and his memory is 

 held in honorable and grateful remembrance by his surviving 

 associates. 



Geoege W. Clinton died, .at Albany, on the 7th of Sep- 

 tember last, in the 78th year of his age. He was the son of 

 DeWitt Clinton, one of the most distinguished governors, and 

 the grand-nephew of George Clinton, the first governor of the 

 State of New York. He was born on the 13th Of April, 1807, 

 whether in the city of New York or in the home on Long 

 Island is uncertain ; he became a student in Albany Academy 

 in the year 1816, when his father entered upon his first tenure 

 of office as governor, entered Hamilton College in 1821, was 

 graduated in 1825, was led by his early scientific tastes to the 

 study of medicine, which, he pursued for a year or two. At 

 least lie attended two courses of lectures at the then flourish- 

 ing country medical school at Fairfield, N. Y. There his ac- 

 quaintance with Professor James Hadley further developed his 



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