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long, except two days in the week which he devoted to botaniz- 

 ing. " In the autumn I shipped ray collection of plants, and in 

 two months had the mortification to learn that the vessel was to- 

 tally wrecked in the St. Lawrence. During the next winter I 

 did little, except employing myself with such skill as I was able 

 in designing some flower-pieces, for which I got a trifle. Early 

 the following spring I commenced labor again, and by the be- 

 ginning of June, had amassed about 50 dollars, which, with as 

 much more borrowed from a friend, formed my stock of money 

 for the next summer's tour. I started in the beginning of June 

 from Montreal, and passing through Kingston went to New York 

 [meaning the State, evidently], to which, after an excursion to 

 Lake Simcoe, I returned; then visited the Falls of Niagara and 

 Fort Erie, and crossed over to the United States, keeping along 

 the eastern side of Lake Erie," he crossed over to Pittsburgh, 

 back by way of Olean, Onondago, and Sackett's Harbor to Mon- 

 treal, and thence safely home to Scotland, " the plants I carried 

 with myself being the whole that I saved out of the produce of 

 nearly three years spent in botanical researches." Hard lines 

 these and in those days for collecting botanists, — which those 

 who " stay at home at ease " do not appreciate. 



Among the fruits garnered in Goldie's paper of 16 pages, are 

 Primula pusilla, Xylosteon oblongifolium, Viola Selkirkii 

 (the name given by Pursh), Drosera linearis, Stellaria longipes, 

 Ranunculus rhomboideus, Gorydalis [Dicentra] Canadensis, 

 Habenaria macrophylla [which is the M. orbiculata, Goldie and 

 Hooker having unfortunately taken the smaller round-leaved 

 species for that], and Aspidium Goldianum, that noble fern, 

 named and about that time figured by W. J. Hooker. The bat- 

 ter's name has mistakenly been affixed to one or two of these 

 species. But, although he doubtless examined the plants, and 

 probably drew up the Latin characters and contributed the fig- 

 ures on the plate, there is no mention of his name in Goldie's paper 

 except for the fern which well commemorates Goldie's name. 



In the year 1824, he was commissioned to take charge of a 

 cargo of living plants sent by the Edinburgh Botanic Garden 

 to that of St. Peterburgh. On his return he went into the 

 nursery business in his native country, during which he revisited 

 Russia, bringing home, it is said, Picea Pichta and the double- 

 flowered Pmonia tenuifolia. Then, with a laudable wish to bet- 

 ter the prospects of his family, in 1844 he transported his home 

 from the Scotch to the Canadian Ayr, in the province of Ontario, 

 where he flourished and prospered for over thirty years of green 

 old age, and died in the midst of numerous and prosperous chil- 

 dren, grand-children, and great grand-children. 



Albekt Kellogg died at Alameda, California, on the 31st of 

 March last, at the age of 74 years. We have few particulars of 

 his life. It is said that he was born at New Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut, and he had doubtless entered the medical profession before 

 he went to California. He was one of the founders of the Cali- 



