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Turning again to the question of touch, Mr. Wilkinson said 
that it was a delight to shake hands with some people. “I know 
one of the finest surgeons in the City whose handshake is nervous, 
but who can handle the lancet with great skill,” he said. “ Some 
people judge too much by appearances. If I could go into 
Armley Gaol and shake hands with the prisoners I could at 
once tell which were habitual criminals and which were not. 
People who are not quite what they should be are never well 
balanced.in action. They have some small trait in their hands or 
feet which gives them away.” 
In July, 1915, Mr. Wilkinson had the degree of M.Sc. con- 
ferred on him by Leeds University—-London Times, Jan. 8, 
1920. 
BOLSHEVISM AND HORTICULTURE 
“Many who are interested in horticulture in England must 
have wondered more than once what has become of the Russian 
botanists and horticultural tourists under the Bolshevik regime. 
What, for instance, has become of Mdm. Olgo Fedtschenko, 
whose knowledge of the plants of Turkistan was probably unique, 
or of her son, Boris, who was in charge of the St. Petersburg 
Herbarium, for which a magnificent new building had just been 
completed before the commencement of the war? We wondered 
what had become of those botanists of Tiflis who were working 
at the flora of the Caucasus, a region which seems to be so rich in 
interesting plants. An article by M. Correvon, in the January 
number of the Revue Horticole, tells us that he has at last been 
able to obtain some information as to the fate of Russian botan- 
ists and horticulturists, because M. Kesselring, of the well-known 
firm of Regel and Kesselring, of Petrograd, has escaped from 
Russia and arrived safely in Switzerland. Dr. Regel was Di- 
rector of the Petrograd Botanic Garden in the latter half of the 
_ nineteenth century, at a time when his son Albert was able to 
introduce into cultivation many good plants which he discovered 
in Turkistan. The firm of Regel and Kesselring had kept an in-_ 
valuable collection of notes on these and other plants that they 
