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Cause, and was in harmony with a faith in a Deity 

 who has created and governs all things ! God grant 

 that it may be allowed such a man at length to carry 

 to a happy completion that great work, which he long 

 ago began, of more accurately describing the flora 

 of North America ! Meanwhile, this man who has 

 so long adorned his fair science by his labors and his 

 life, even unto a hoary age, 4 bearing,' as our poet 

 says, 4 the white blossom of a blameless life,' him, I 

 say, we gladly crown, at least with these flowerets of 

 praise, with this corolla of honor (his saltern laudis 

 flosculis, hac saltern honoris corolla, libenter corona- 

 mus). For many, many years may Asa Gray, the 

 venerable priest of Flora, render more illustrious this 

 academic crown." 



England was in a stir with the Queen's Jubilee ; it 

 was impossible to be in London on the twenty-first, as 

 Dr. Gray must get to Oxford to receive his degree 

 on the twenty-second, and a good part of the day was 

 used in crossing country by various railroads ; but the 

 sight of the crowds, the decorations, the bands every- 

 where, was very interesting, and the enthusiasm con- 

 tagious. Oxford had its gay share of illumination in 

 the evening, and the next day Dr. Gray received his 

 degree with several others, among them his old Cam- 

 bridge acquaintance, Story, the sculptor. 



TO 



BLACHFORD, Sunday, July 2. 



... I am to add some supplementary notes. 



At the Cambridge University lunch, I had Mrs. 

 Jebb assigned to me to take in. Oscar Browning took 

 the seat on my right. Opposite was a man I was 



