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a compact that they would publish no new species unless the types 

 were deposited in some of the eastern herbaria-, but in private 

 they went much farther. I was publishing in both journals. I re- 

 vived a letter after my last article in the Bulletin (from Gerard 

 the Editor) saying that Gray had objected to my new species as 

 not authorized by him, and that I should get his approval hereaf- 

 ter. I replied that I would submit to the dictation of nobody. I 

 did not feel hostile to anyone though I felt that it was pusillani- 

 mous and the publication of the compact later was equally so in 

 both journals. The compact made my hebarium valueless as to 

 types and insured the easy access to them by closet men and made 

 it imperative for us to m;ike expensive pilgrimages 2000 miles to 

 see types which the closet botanists did not know how to describe* 

 The private orders required Gray's approval and gave Harvard 

 the types, a line thing fur Harvard. After a while Colum- 

 bia eased up a bit and let Greene publish without Gray's approval 

 on depositing types with them. I did not publish or attempt to 

 for some time but I kept up my correspondence with Gray and 

 Watson and they published as mine any species to which I gave a 

 name if they thought it was good. I had many friendly tilts but 

 I knew they were often loose in their descriptions, and so I could 

 not be sure of my ground till I saw their types, which did not oc- 

 cur till 1S95 when both were dead. 



From Gray's viewpoint we were enthusiastic collectors like 

 Cusiek, Lemmon and many others who sent him much material, 

 and for whom anions; others he was running a race with Death to 

 complete his great Flora. In addition we knew his types from 

 meagre and often faulty descriptions, and consequently made er- 

 rors ( -nstantly. On our part we were not satisfied with all his 

 ltoes for we knew that he erred in describing his types or in his 

 identifications. This was hightened when Watson adopted my 

 o] nion on Arabis and got the credit for half a dozen species that 

 by ri<rht belonged to me. 



Because of these facts one of us has lost his botanical moor- 

 ings and dritfted out into the fog, and it is pitiable, still more so 

 because he is writing a history of American botany where he can 

 fatten his spleen on unfair references and belittling estimates of 

 at least one of the World's greatest botanists. 



