CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS 75 



started the Botanical Gazette, published at Crawfordsville, Indiana, 'Ahich» 



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Britton was connected with the Bulletin, but W. R. Gerard was the 

 responsible editor. Now the only men of the long list of workers in those 

 days still living are Britton and myself. The rest have passed on. The 

 last two to go were Rose and Coulter. 



Coulter seems to have been the one who started the nefarious .scheme 

 of taking part of the credit for work he never did. and which went into 

 disrepute with Scribner, Rose was his pupil, one of the best, and took 

 up the Umbelliferae. Coulter's part in this publication was that of sitting 



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It was the same 



on the genera. Coulter's chief part in tlie deliberations i 

 cigars and stinking up the room with tobacco smoke- 

 method which produced Coulter's Flora of Texas, but to date no one nas 

 ever claimed being the clerk who got it out This was the way Coulter 

 got his reputation for being a systematic botanist. As a teacher Coulter 

 was a great success. No one but Bessey ever turned out so many good 

 botanists as Coulter. As editor and maker of the Botanical Gazette Coul- 



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