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was it until a few weeks before his end, that illness oblijjed 
him to relinquish his daily attendance at the assay-office. 
He died as he had lived, quietly, surrounded hy an affection- 
ate family, and cheered by the hopes of a Christian. His 
name is written imperishably in the liistory of American 
botanical science, and his monument is Torrey’s Peak, that 
lofty summit of the Rocky Mountains which bears his name, 
and rises side by side with Gray’s Peak, named for our other 
great botanist, his life-long friend and fellow-worker, who can 
alone do justice to tlie story of the long, busy and useful 
life of Dr. John Torrey. T S H 
