LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY. 



Lake Forest , 111. , December 23, 1895, ■ 



My dear Deane I 



I know very little about Mr.Bobb's herbarium ftXOftptiltg tht^T 

 ^ or years he has done little or nothing to it excepting in the S»1±X por- 

 tion. This part of it he has kept up to the end, and in my judgment it 

 stands as the most important collection of the genus in this country. I 

 have not seen his most recent MSS. on Salix.but his wife told me that he had 

 been working at it all his spare time and had a great many notes. She 

 said that there were only' a few points that he wished still to clear up. 

 Aside from his formal notes his herbarium sheets are jotted over with his 

 opinions in such a way that they will be very clear to his editor. This 

 final revision, you understand, was for the proposed "Flora of North America. 



The funeral was a vftpy quiet one, conducted at the house with only a 

 few relatives and fri~onds present. Since Mr. B' s. removal from Fountain- 

 dale to Rockford he was in bad health, and being of a very retiring dispo- 

 sition he lived- too quietly to become largely acquainted in Rockford. Those 

 who were present expressed the warmest admiration for the nan, not only on 

 his social side, but also on his intellectual side. I do not know what 

 disposition is to be made of his herbarium. His family said that they 



