Lucien Underwood’s suicide hung over the New York botanical community. After all, his service reached into the Torrey Botanical Club, Columbia, and the Botanical Garden. But as he would have seriously told them, “Life must go on.” Nathaniel Britton was still Director at the Garden and although the legal entity was a dozen years old, site improvement and construction went on unabated. The Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden produced report after report of dry narration—the roads, the conservatories, landscaping, library, collections, exploration, personnel, endowment—all required perpetual attention.