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in the determination of these often doubtful productions and pannot as 
yet fully realize how much his advice and assistance will be missed. 
The following brief sketch of his life is taken from a West Chester 
paper: 
‘‘Dr. George Martin was born near Claymont, Delaware county, Pa., 
and received his early education at the Westtown Friends’ Boarding 
School, after which he became a student at the Pennsylvania University, 
where he graduated in medicine about 1847. He first practiced his pro¬ 
fession at Concordville, Delaware county, where he remained about tliree 
years. Owing to delicate health, he next became connected with the 
Fifth Street Dispensary, Philadelphia, in which he remained some five 
years, at the expiration of which time he engaged with his cousin, John 
M. Sharpless, in the latter’s chrome works in the city of Chester. During 
the war, he was connected with soldiers’ hospitals in Chester, and in 
wliich he rendered efficient and untiring services. In 1866 he came to 
West Chester, where he continued to live until the time of his death. 
During the last eight or ten years, his health was such as to lead him and 
his wife to pass the winter season in Florida, they leaving here in the fall 
and returning late in the spring. This year his disease — that of kidney 
troubles — became more alarming during the summer, until about ten 
days ago, when it became evident that he could not survive. At the 
time of his death, he was one of the managers of the Pennsylvania 
Training School at Media, also a bright member of the Chester County 
Medical Society, and during his active practice was a member of the 
College of Physicians, of Philadelphia. 
In his demise, the medical profession loses one of its shining lights, 
•he having devoted many years to schooling himself in the knowledge 
relating to all that pertained thereto. In scientific pursuits, he was also 
a close and learned student, as well as a botanist of such note as to lead 
him into close associations with the leading botanists of the day, his 
principal study in this department being that of fungi. Dr. Martin was 
a genial and good citizen. Plain and retiring in his manners, he was 
beloved by all and honored at home and abroad, and well may it be said 
that a truly good man has been taken from our midst.” J. B. E. 
CORRECTIONS. 
In the‘‘Catalogue of Lichens” ( p. 112), occur typographical errors 
kindly pointed out by Mr. Willey, who is in that article referred to as 
having identified most of the species. lie disclaims responsibility for 
the list, especially for Nos. 44, 45, 50, 53, 57. 63 and 68. Correct errors as 
follows : Place a before 18 ; in 38 change “r” in Eristathiana to “u ; ’’ 
in 55 erase final “ i ” in xVugustinii; in 6i) change ” e ” in Mycoperurn 
to‘‘o.” 
