Botanists -- United States -- Correspondence; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 -- Correspondence
[71] _The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication_, by
Charles Darwin: London, 1868. Republished by _American Agriculturist_:
New York.
[72] Charles Frederic Martins, M. D., 1806-1889; professor of botany
and director of the Botanic Garden at Montpellier.
[73] Jules Emile Planchon, 1823-1888; professor at Montpellier; author
of important works on Systematic Botany and Morphology. Studied
Phylloxera.
[74] Gustave Thuret, 1810-1875. “One of the best investigators of
Algæ; established a remarkable botanical garden at Antibes” [A. G.].
[75] John Traherne Moggridge, 1842-1874; a keen naturalist. Wrote on
the botany of Mentone, and on harvesting ants and trap-door spiders.
[76] Edouard Naville, of Geneva; distinguished Egyptologist; since
1883 the representative of the Egyptian Exploration fund.
[77] Von Martius died in March, 1869.
[78] Boat-race between Harvard and Oxford.
[79] Maxwell T. Masters; editor of _Gardener’s Chronicle_; author of
_Vegetable Teratology_.
[80] William Carruthers; botanist of the British Museum, London.
[81] Johannes Müller (Argoviensis); late director of the Botanic
Garden at Geneva. Has written largely on Lichens.
[82] Sir William Henry Flower, M. D., London; curator of the Hunterian
Museum. Succeeded Owen as director of the British Museum of Natural
History.
[83] George Rolleston, M. D., 1829-1881; professor of anatomy and
physiology at Oxford.
[84] Sermon preached in Westminster Abbey, at the consecration of the
new bishop of Salisbury.
[85] Dr. Gray’s black and tan terrier, his loving companion for twelve
years.
[86] Theodore Caruel, professor in Florence.
[87] Ernest Cosson, 1819-1890. Wrote the _Flora of Algiers_ and the
_Flora of the Environs of Paris_.
[88] _The Descent of Man._
[89] Mr. Church had been appointed dean of St. Paul’s, London.
[90] _How Plants Behave._
[91] “Sequoia and its History; the Relations of North American to
Northeast Asian and to Tertiary Vegetation,” in _Darwiniana_, pp.
205-235.
[92] “An able philosophical writer, Miss Frances Power Cobbe, has
recently and truthfully said:--
“‘It is a singular fact that when we can find out how anything is
done, our first conclusion seems to be, God did not do it. No matter
how wonderful, how beautiful, how intimately complex and delicate has
been the machinery which has worked perhaps for centuries, perhaps for
millions of ages, to bring about some beneficent result, if we can but
catch a glimpse of the wheels, its divine character disappears.’
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