“ Underwood always impressed me as a man of the happiest disposition, as jolly a fellow as you would care to meet, a delightful companion, and a man who was popular with every one that knew him. So far as I know, his married life was ideal. ”

“ Underwood did some of his work there, it did not figure to any extent in his experimental and research work. He had been in Columbia University as Torrey Professor of Botany for about ten years, succeeding me as head of the department.
"In his work, Prof. Underwood stood at the very head of his profession in the United States, and was one of the best-known men in his line in the entire world. For several years he had been working on a classification of ferns, the arctic regions of North America and the Isthmus of Panama. ”

“ Lucien M. Underwood committed suicide at his country home here this evening, after severely cutting his wife's throat and attempting to kill their daugheter. Mr. Underwood was professor of Botany at Columbia University, and was Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the New York Botanical Garden. ”