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differs in the biangulate ridges, the small centrum and the 

 rosulae. It is a question if it would not be more in accordance 

 with Nature to remove this, Wilsoni and trachyodon, to the bi- 

 angulate hicmalia, where the majority of their affinities lie. Ft. 

 Kent, Me., E. F. Williams; Wakefield, Que., Macoun; Union Vil- 

 lage, Vt., F. Blanchard; Royalston, Yt., banks of White river, 

 sand near water, Eggleston; near Port Hu^on, Mich.. C. K. 

 Dodge. 



SARAH FRANCES PRICE. 



On July 3, 1903, Sadie F. Price died at her home in Bowling 

 Green, Kentucky. A notice of her death has already appeared 

 in this journal, but her contributions to science were so many and 

 so varied that a more extended account of her life is desirable 

 and the following biography is therefore presented : 



Miss Price was born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1849, but her 

 parents soon thereafter removed to Kentucky, in which S^ate she 

 always resided. She was educated at a church school in Terre 

 Haute, Indiana, and having excellent teachers in science soon be- 

 came interested in natural history. In later years this knowledge 

 was turned to good account in teaching classes in nature study at 

 her home. 



Although for much of her life a semi-invalid, Miss Price 

 accomplished a vast amount of work. She had an herbarium of 

 nearly two thousand Southern plants, about half of which she had 

 reproduced in pencil and water color. Part of these sketches 

 were exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, and re- 

 ceived an award. She also made upwards of 150 colored skeiches 

 of Kentucky birds. She was familiar with the land and fresh 

 water shells of her region and published a list of them. She was 

 the discoverer of new species of plants in the genera Aster. 

 Apios. Cunius, Clematis and Oxalis. 



To fern students she is best known through her book. ''The 

 Fern Collector's Hand-book and Herbarium" (1897), but she also 

 published in 1890 two compilations, "Songs from the Southland" 

 and "Shakespeare's Twilights." Of lesser publications may be 

 mentioned "The Flora of Warren County" (1893), and "List of 

 Trees and Shrubs of Kentucky" (1895), and numerous anicles 

 and notes contributed to the periodical press. 



