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liim and this institutioa. His interest in matters botanical 

 led to work in two rather difi'erent fields. His exceptional 

 knowledge of si^ecies and his great skill as a gardener enabled 

 hnn to satisfy his keen artistic sense by bringing out all 

 the beauty of the components of his collection of living plants, 

 and at the same time to indulge in his scientific desire to become 

 master of their distinctive characters and of their habits under 

 cultivation. In addition, however/to his love of plants for their 

 own sake, he was much interested in their economic properties 

 and m the chemical nature of their principles. It was, perhaps, 

 to the latter rather than to the former taste that his correspon- 

 dence with Kew during the past forty years owed its inception, 

 though during this period it shows how keen was his interest in 

 all branches of the work done here. More than forty years ago 

 Kew was able to assist him with material to serve in his search for 

 Quercite (/vcit; Rep., 18T6, p. 29); later, to supply or help him to 

 procure material needed in his efforts to determine whether the pre- 

 sence of lactic acid m the vegetable world can be accepted as a fact ; 

 and again in connection with tlie interesting series of investiga- 



& 



years later. 



enty 



attention was the colour of Ebony wood; to help him in this 

 lesearch, which the outbreak of the war induced him to postpone, 



August, 1914. 



Miiller 



c/pHW informa ion on many subjects, such as Ngai Camphor; 

 /£,^.r T^'-^r^ ^-^ i^r^'^P^^ «f the-Raiz def Piptizahuac 



SZ T, ^^'^'J?^^^'«^«)- With his assent and the permission 

 5'obtnn I"""''! '' ^."^^'^ ^'^ *^^ occurrence of Natural-Sugar in 

 CO oBPr /t: . •''JA?'*'"'' K^y^" ^^^^S^on of which he gave his 

 U his inr" \?^-^'7^P'^blished in this work (K.B. 1896, p. 49). 

 1890 „ 4^ ^?' fl^^^^^^ted the origin of Indian Yellow (Z^-^- 

 S^^>theti^ tL' fT^'i? Toll^'^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^- ^ ^^l^'-^We note on 

 &dnes snl H^'" 1 ••^- ^^^^' P" ^^)- '^^'^ mn.eums owe to his 

 u e onlv D iT of interesting substances like the Salop, which is 



cf.ffpp A..04L: IS. o\''y\ , ^^^1 ^^-^^ ^s a beverao-e like tea or 



S TV^iemllt f?^* °^ "^'^^^ '^ ^ ■'^P^^"^-^ of B^>cca, the root 

 Coiiio .?? it ^^^' ""'A^ ^''•^ ^'S^'^y ^^^'^"^^^ on the Lower 



o r 1 i Tn hd t ,ir'^"?f /'' " '^^^"^^^*' ^' ^1^^^ 1^^ devised for 

 :^inc garden ,be]^'i'°^^^^ ^' satisfactorily used for writing on 



supplied for culttn'r ^'i^ ^' '^ economic botanist, as wheS he 

 true^A^afortich or ^r ^^" T'- "^ ^^^* '''^' understood to be the 

 ously .paTed for h. ^' ^^^'^^^^"S enthusiast, as when he gener- 

 .unnne? v\s its to Swir?''''^ "^ .^'^ ^ '^^^'^ «* the spoils of 

 ^e^ls npenei i AS^^^^ ^y^ -d of tile rarer 



lu at least one cn^A hio 4^ ^<*"MJnicy. 



intemsU were nu,t„„ lU^ebfuT 0"% f • '''''''?'" '"'f"""'^,' 

 lu its results, most ,ti4;r„ • ,■ ■ "* '"» ""«* leceni, and, 



"teina" m^tTihin „"S '"vesHgations hud as its subject the 

 h" found to con" St 0, fl"™L ''■'''"' "* ""^ ?"'"" ''"■"'"'"' '^l'"'' 



