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from both of these pre-eminent authorities, and has used the names 
apphed by other botanists. 
The fact is entitled to notice that now, probably for the first 
time in America, a local catalogue is published in which the plants 
of all the classes in the vegetable kingdom are included. Usually, 
heretofore, such catalogues have not extended beyond the Vascular 
Crytogams:—very rarely, indeed, have they comprehended the Musci 
and Hepatice. 
No one more than the writer can regret that any reason should 
have compelled Judge CLinron to decline the task of preparing this 
Catalogue for publication:—no one can better appreciate how much 
has been lost because that labor has devolved upon another. In 
this city, where that devoted naturalist and accomplished scholar 
passed so many years of his useful and honorable life, nothing needs 
to be said, to any one, of his peculiar fitness for such a duty. The 
clearness, learning and rare felicity of style, with which he was ac- 
customed to illumine and adorn his favorite theme, will here be 
long remembered. 
Buffalo, March 1st, 1882. 
