The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-12-09
MIR. Horace Mann.


rived here by the last mail, we were panied
to read this short notice: "Last Wednesday
Nov. II, died at Cambridge, Mass, the cid
est son of Horace Mann The numerous
our islands, will undoubtedly share our feel
ings.
Mr.. Mann came here in April, 1854, in CON-
pany with W. T. Brigham, Esq, both gentle
men having been appointed ON a scientific
mission for the botanical and geological
exploration of our group, by the Boston
Society Of Natural History. Botany was the
part allotted to Mr.. Mann, branch of study
for which he was eminently fitted by prepar-
atory studies made under the direction of
Prof. A. Gray, the highest scientific authority
on everything connected with the botany of
the Pacific Ocean. From April, 1864, to July,
1866, he labored unremittingly ir the pursuit
of his work, exploring in succession the isl
ands of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Oahu, and
Kauai, while his friend, Mr.. Bingham, sup
plemented the work by his visits of the islands
of Molokai and Niihau. The discovery of
about "a new species, including anew genera
of plants were the result of his labors The
most interesting of these, plants, an azores
cent composite, from the Island of Lanai,
which adds another TO the few connecting
links Of our flora. with that of South
America, was described, and named by Prof.
A. Gray, after the discoyerer, Hespero Man
rha-the first part of the name being intend
ed to distinguish it from that of a homony-
nous botanical explorer of the CAMERON
Mountains in Tropical Africa, George Mann,
native of Germany.
Since his return TO Boston, Mr. Mann has
steadily applied himself TO the determination
of his plants, comparing them with those
deposited in the large herbarium of Prof.
Gray, which also contains full suite of dupli-
Gates of the plants collected by Mr.. ]. Remy.
The first result of these labors and his re-
searches in the literature of botany, bearing
on the Hawaiian group, was the Enumeratio
Plantarum Hawaiensium, which appeared
in the beginning of 1867. Since that time
Hawaiian Islands, on the plan of the British
Colonial Floras, and A. Gray's Flora of the
Northern United States of America This
work, of which several proofsheets were
sent to Honolulu by the author, seems to have
received a serious interruption by the highly
honorable call upon him to fill, tempora-
rily, the botanical chair of Prof Gray, at the
University of Cambridge, during that gentle
mans prolonged voyage to Europe. 1t
would seem that the accumulated labors
were too much for the young mans frail
constitution. BE was seized by that terrible
scourge of the New England States, con-
sumption, which, from the beginning, must
have assumed violent form. At all events,
his friends here had the first intimation of
his illness only by the mail preceding that
which brought the news of his death. He
had only attained the oath year of his age.
If honesty of purpose, high aim of life,
and the self-sacrihcing and faithful discharge
of the duties, which such self-imposed aim
entails upon its votary, entitle man to our
esteem and respect, 1t is eminently due to the
deceased His exploratory and scientific Ia
bors will always assign to his name most
honorable place among those who have con-
tributed 20 the investigation of natures
treasures on this group of islands.