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genera and sliowed just wliere they fell do\\Ti, and it was up to him to 

 show where I ' was mistaken, which of course he could not do. I have 

 had the advantage of Rose and Coulter in having spent the greater part 

 of my life in the region where these genera grow, and had studied the 

 plants growing and knew of their intergradations. It might do with east- 



knowledge 



kind of bluff. 



be bunkoed 



■ • J N. Rose. The announcement of the death of Rose conies as a shock 

 to his eld friends. As a man and citizen Rose was a prince. No one 

 could know him without liking him. When I went to Washington the 

 fi.-st time in 1894^ he at once took me under his care and piloted me 

 around to the various workers and introduced me to them all, Dewey 

 rollock, Merriam, Palmer, Miss Vasey, Mrs. Baldwin, Miss Clark, and 

 imny oihers. Then over to the Botanical Seminar where I met Irwin F 

 ^■nith, and others in his department. Then over to the Corcoran Art 

 Gallery, and to the Tresbyterian church of which he was a member Then 

 to tea at his house, where I met his family. He was always a helpful 

 h^anist ready to assist in naming anything, a self-abnegating man. His 

 duef defect was lack of assertiveness, willingness to be dominated by 

 t.;o.^e above him, just so long as he could work. Naturally his ideas of 

 5peafic and generic dL.erences was good, but in trying to keep up with 

 p-ogress he fo lowed the bell wethers too closely for his own good, till at 

 last he lost all sense of botanical fixity in either genera or tpecies, and 



m cK T. h" ."^^'^''T ''''/ ''''' ^^'""'^^^y ^' ^'^s a conservative, 

 mjch as hi. later work would seem to disprove this. No work that he 



ivrr dtd was equal to that on the Umbelliferae. and this was his first 



vvo.K of a^ny importance. He was slated for the position of botanist of 



Li DoFurtniea of Agriculture, and was next in order after the dea h of 



Br. Vasey, but he was ruthlessly pushed aside by CoviUe fust as was 



Bowey by the scoundrel F. Lamson Scribner, from being' head of rte 



r^ulJur^nd- Sm^-tf ^^°"f°"^' '^^'^ ^^-'^^-^ - the^Dep^Vent 

 Agriculture and Smithsonian Institute as long as he did is a marvel for 



ftm W^ 1 ? *"" °«'S'*ors in the mad scramble to ge to the 





departm 



