[111] “Dr. Gray, with Mr. Cowles and some of the neighbors, had gone up Negro Mountain. He found on the top the plant he expected, a Saxifraga, made out the narrow ravine he had explored thirty-six years ago, found it, and in its same spot the rare plant (an Aconite) he had then discovered, rarely seen growing since, and so came back triumphant.”--Extract from Mrs. Gray’s journal. [112] Howard Shriver, M. D., formerly at Wyethville, Va., now at Cumberland, Md. [113] John A. C. Roeper, 1800-1884; director and professor in the Botanic Garden at Bâle; removed to Rostock, Prussia, as professor, before 1840. [114] The Yale Lectures. [115] Alphonse Lavallée, 1835-1884. Paris. “His specialty, ornamental trees and shrubs, of which he had nearly the largest and best collection in Europe, studying them with assiduity” [A. G.]. [116] Dr. C. H. Schultz [Bipontinus], 1805-1867. Rhenish Bavaria. A distinguished botanist, who devoted himself to Compositæ, and amassed an extremely rich herbarium in that family. [117] Willdenow’s Asters were sent over to me here!--A. G. [118] Pietro Andrea Saccardo; professor at Padua. [119] Otto Penzig, M. D.; formerly assistant professor at Padua, now professor at Genoa. [120] Seen first in 1850, with its temporary roof and bases of towers. [121] Samuel B. Parish, San Bernardino, Cal. [122] William Cusick, Crowell, Oregon. [123] C. G. Pringle; for many years has explored the botany of Mexico. [124] _Contemporary Review_, xli. [125] J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn.; a great authority on Indian languages and customs, and author of many contributions, historical and philological. Perhaps the only American scholar able to read Eliot’s Bible. [126] The birth of the Dean’s first grandchild. [127] Dr. Gray went to New York to finish his sittings to St. Gaudens for the bronze bas-relief now in the herbarium at Cambridge. [128] “Characteristics of the North American Flora,” _American Journal of Science_, ser. 3, vol. xxviii, p. 323; also in _Scientific Papers of A. Gray_, selected by C. S. Sargent. [129] Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin,--the distinguished physicist. [130] The inkstand is now placed in the library of the herbarium with Sir William J. Hooker’s hand-glass, so much used by Dr. Gray. [131] Daniel Morris, assistant director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. [132] Matteo Botteri, died in 1885. Sent to Mexico by London Horticultural Society. Made fine collections, especially about Orizaba, where he settled. [133] General John Bidwell was the Prohibition candidate for the Presidency in 1892. [134] Named the Sir Joseph Hooker Oak. [135] _American Journal of Science_, 3 ser. xxxi, 12.--1886. Reprinted in _Scientific Papers_, selected by C. S. Sargent, vol. ii. p. 468.