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at Cambridge to prolong the fight, on his nerve, with a superb courage, after the physical machine was ready to stop. The doctors did what they could, and he did more, but the odds were all against him. Life went out on the morning of December 24.

The Corporation of Harvard University appointed him Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection at its meeting on November 30, 1914. Four weeks later he was buried from Appleton Chapel, by the College Preacher. The body rests at Mount Auburn, under a beautiful pine tree.

Livingston's first publication was an anonymous pamphlet entitled 'Chrysanthemums' which was issued by his employers, Pitcher & Manda, at Short Hills in 1893. It was a separate reprint from a portion of their regular catalogue for the autumn of that year. This brochure attracted considerable attention at the time among horticulturists, and it has pro-