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reading the I'ihlc. ( )nc would sec him collcctinLj in the moun- 

 tains in the day-tinie and •>n his way haek in the evenin;:i^, read- 

 ing his Bible in the train. When s])()ken to in the earriage, he 

 would sav, "Chotto matte kudasai" (Please wait a moment), 

 and bceome absorbed in jjiayer. After going to bed, he used to 

 get up twice in the night to attend to his drying plants. 



Father Faurie was a very cheerful, amiable man and was 

 very much beloved liy us, especially' b}' the \'oung people of 

 our laboratory. We are greatlv indebted to him for loans of 

 material, which he made to us very generously. For mj'self, 

 however, what I especially owe to him is of a quite difilerent 

 nature. One dav he came to me and said, "I am urged to go 

 to Formosa by Western botanists who, in seeing A'our papers, 

 are very much interested in the study of the flora of that island 

 and desire to have materials. I must go there, and compete 

 Avith you in sending collections to them." 



Now for my part, for nearly fifteen years, I had been 

 devoting m\'self to the study of the flora of Formosa, and in 

 my work had met with greater success, perhaps than m\' 

 limited abilitj' warranted. This was mainly due to the fact 

 that the flora of the island had been long forgotten by Western 

 botanists who had till then left its study entirely to me And to 

 myself also up to that time, the study of the flora of the island 

 had been something like a pleasure excursion on an endless sea, 

 in which the land of completion was far out of sight. For- 

 tunately, for the previous five years, the Botanical Survey' had 

 made considerable progress, and a faint hope had come to dawn 

 in my mind that the completion of the study was not far oft, and 

 that it might possibly be finished within a few, — say five years. 



Such was the condition of our Botanical Survey of Formosa, 

 when the Father came to me to give me the final spur. He 

 frankly said that he had come as my rival; but I, who am by 

 no means clever in mind or strong in body, was not equal to 

 competing with such a vigorous and devoted man. So I could 

 but implore him to let me have a few \'ears more to complete 

 my studies on the Formosan flora. This he absolutely refused 

 to do, and started for Formosa where he remained working 



