ISBN: 9781154743074

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 208 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 208 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: . . . such life-work as his comparatively useless. Commendations for the stand he had taken in this matter were among the greatest pleasures of his latter days. Since his active connection with the Academy, he seems not to have tiiken many long botanical excursions. One, however, the pleasure of which he loved to recall, was made in the summer of 1876, in company with Mr. W. M. Canby, Dr. Asa Gray, Dr. Engelmann and Prof. (. . S. Sargent, through the mountains of North Carolina, the result of which considerably enriched the herbarium of the Academy. In 1879 he made another journey to North Carolina with Dr. Gray to see where Shortia grew. One may see from the scrupulous care with which every fact of importance is noted ou the labels attached to the plants collected on these journeys how well trained to conscientious accuracy his mind had been. His work for the day would be finished and cleared up as if he never expected to resume it again; and when he undertook a task his mind dwelt on it until the end had been reached. Happening, while penning these lines, to open a volume on my table treating of the Celastracese, I find a letter between the pages which well illustrates this finished character. We had together been working up an unnamed collection from Tabasco in Mexico. Leaving in the afternoon, I expected to be again in the herbarium the next or at most the day after. But he could not wait, and the letter came the next morning: Phila. , March 3rd, 1893. My Dear Meehan: I enclose you two or three softened flowers of our last adversarium for you to examine. As see them, they have five rounded imbricate sepals, five strongly reflexed petals, five stamens alternate with the petal, filaments conical, no style, but stigma sessile on the. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<