[18] Lewis David Schweinitz, 1780-1834; the first American who studied and described the fungi of the United States. He wrote also on other North American cryptogams and carices.
[19] John E. Le Conte, 1784-1860; formerly major in United States army. His first botanical publication was a catalogue of the plants on the island of New York, in 1810. He later wrote chiefly on entomology.
[20] It appears that in December, 1834, I read to the Lyceum of Natural History my first paper, Monograph of North American Rhynchosporæ, and my second, New or Rare Plants of the State of New York. They must have been printed early in 1835.—A. G.
[21] J. G. C. Lehmann, 1793-1860; professor at Hamburg.
[22] George Francis Reuter, 1815-1873; directer of the Botanical Garden at Geneva; curator of Boissier’s herbarium.
[23] Edward T. Channing; professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University.
[24] Daniel Treadwell; professor in Harvard University of applied physics; distinguished inventor in mechanics, especially in the welding of steel.
[25] John H. Redfield; curator of the herbarium of the botanical department of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science.
[26] American Jour. Sci., xxv. 346-350.
[27] Dr. Trowbridge.