44 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
_ The year 1852 gave us the plants collected by Stansbury in the Region of 7 
Salt Lake | 

some of these expeditions were elaborated by Newberry, Durand, and — 
others. Those collected by Beckwith and Gunnison, and by Pope onthe — 
Llano Estacado, appeared under the joint authorship of Torr E 
a. h 
of the botanical portion of them he contributed freely, often working up 
entire families. 
€ most voluminous, as well as in some respects the most important — 
of these Botanical Reports of the Government expeditions is that of the a 
Mexican Boundary, published in 1859, and with this I close this chrono- — 
logical account, remarking that some contributions to science have been 
omitted altogether, 
This little catalogue of 1817 began the list, and it closes with the ele- 
gant quarto of the Mexican Boundary. Indeed there is no student of — 
American Botany who has not almost daily occasion to refer to the works | 
TORREY o 
ough his correspondence. These are works that will never be pub- 
lished, but they are deeply imprinted on the hearts of botanists in all- 
parts of the country. 
Tt may be thought that this hurried review of the botanical labors of our 
_ guest is incomplete, without some reference to his character as a man. 
- It is always a delicate task to speak fittingly of another in his presence 
_ and I could hardly trust myself to give utterance to what I feel is due 
him. Happily I am saved from the embarrassment that the attempt 


