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Mr. Russell contributed much to the general knowledge 
of botany in Essex County, but his most extensive collec- 
tions were made in other places. 
The only attempt at an enumeration of county plants, 
as such, is that of Mr. Cyrus M. Tracy, of Lynn. It 
was intended to give a list of the flowering plants found 
in that region and contained 546 species. Besides pos- 
sessing a very happy gift as a botanical lecturer, Mr. Tracy 
has contributed several valuable articles upon local botany 
to the publications of the Essex Institute and elsewhere. 
Mr. Geo. D. Phippen, of Salem, whose notes on the 
native plants have materially aided the writer, has often 
presented the subject of botany at meetings of the In- 
stitute, and has written several articles of interest upon 
the subjects which have been published in various 
places. Mrs. C. N. S. Horner, of Georgetown, a most 
excellent botanical collector, published a list of the plants 
of that region in the Georgetown Advocate in 1876. Mr. 
Calvin Pool, of Rockport, prepared’a somewhat smaller 
list of plants of Cape Ann, which was published in 
“Pigeon Cove and vicinity” in 1873. Mr. 8S. B. Buttrick, 
whose years do not diminish his interest in botany, and 
who is ever on the alert to find some rare flower, has con- 
tributed several lists of plants to the earlier numbers of 
the Proceedings and Bulletin of the Essex Institute, as 
also have Dr. G. A. Perkins, of Salem, chairman of the 
botanical section of the Peabody Academy of Science, 
Mr. Geo. F. H. Markoe, now of Boston, Rev. Mr. Chute, 
formerly of Lynnfield, and many others. Dr. Henry 
Wheatland, although not claiming to be a botanist, has 
often aided those who did, by his assistance in revising 
the articles for the publications of the Institute while act- 
ing as the editor. Mr. S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, one of 
the older botanists and a companion of Oakes and Osgood, 
