“I agree with the writer that this first conclusion is premature and unworthy, I will add deplorable. Through what faults and infirmities of dogmatism on the one hand, and skepticism on the other, it came to be so thought, we need not here consider. Let us hope, and I confidently expect, that it is not to last; that the religious faith which survived without a shock the notion of the fixity of the earth itself may equally outlast the notion of the absolute fixity of the species which inhabit it; that in the future, even more than in the past, faith in an order, which is the basis of science, will not, as it cannot reasonably, be dissevered from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.”--“Sequoia and its History,” in _Darwiniana_, p. 205. [93] This was the beginning of summer schools in Harvard University. [94] “Life of Charles Darwin,” in _Nature_, June 4, 1874. [95] See vol. xxxiv. n. ser., November, 1862, pp. 428, 429.--A. G. [96] Moses Ashley Curtis, D. D., 1808-1872. Born in Charlestown, Mass.; early removed to the South; lived near Hillsboro, N. C. His botanical studies were largely on Fungi. [97] Rev. G. Frederick Wright, then a clergyman at Andover, Mass., now professor at Oberlin, Ohio. [98] The book was published with Mr. Wright’s assistance. [99] Review of _Darwin’s Insectivorous and Climbing Plants_, in _The Nation_, Nos. 549 and 550. [100] The afterwards famous designer of yachts. [101] T. S. Brandegee. Engaged on railroad surveys in Colorado and Washington territories and the Northern Pacific. At present living in San Francisco. [102] The bad railroad strikes of the summer of 1877. [103] J. G. Lemmon; late botanist of the California State Board of Forestry; author of a report on California Conifers. [104] _The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species._ [105] Photograph of camp on Rocky Mountains, La Veta Pass, with the best photographic likenesses, perhaps, ever taken of Sir J. D. Hooker and Dr. Gray; and including General and Mrs. Strachey, Dr. Hayden, and Captain Stevenson. [106] Articles in the New York _Independent_, signed “Country Reader,” by Dr. Gray. [107] At a memorial meeting held in honor of Professor Henry by the Board of Regents and both Houses of Congress, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, January 16, 1879, Dr. Gray read a Biographical Memorial of Joseph Henry, in behalf of the Board of Regents. [108] Heinrich Ludwig Muhlenberg, 1756-1817; a Lutheran preacher in Lancaster, Penn.; published a _Catalogue of North American Plants_, and a _Description of North American Grasses_. [109] James Watson Robbins, M. D., 1807-1879; physician at Uxbridge, Mass. “A most critical student of the botany of New England and northern United States, and especially of the Potamogetons” [A. G.]. [110] Edward Palmer; has collected largely in southern Florida and Mexico.