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presence made the home more enjoyable than ever to their many 
friends. 
Dr. Farlow's kindness and generosity were so unostentatious that 
no detailed record can ever be made. But both here and in Europe 
there are many persons who cherish the memory of what they owe 
to him. His knowledge and his collections were always at the ser- 
vice of all who were qualified to benefit from them. Soon after his 
death one of his old students, who has made important contributions 
to American mycology, wrote to me, saying: “I can hardly realize 
that his inspiring and sympathetic correspondence is at an end." 
Nothing can speak more forcibly of his relations to those around him 
than the fact that the “youngest” member of the staff of the Cryp- 
togamic Herbarium had been with Dr. Farlow for seventeen years. 
We who today work in the laboratories where he taught and in the 
herbarium which he created still feel keenly the consciousness of his : 
personality, and still we look up at intervals expecting to hear his 
quick steps and his rapid speech, with some enlivening bit of humor 
or some penetrating and fruitful comment on the specimens which we 
are studying. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
