440 CORRESPONDENCE. [1858, 



Philadelphia, speaks of Dr. Gray's patient drilling of 

 him in writing his thesis, making him go over and 

 over it again, until it had been rewritten six times 

 before he allowed him to be satisfied with it. His 

 pupils would always remember his comment when 

 satisfied, " That is neatly stated." 



And Dr. Farlow shows the picturesque figure " hur- 

 rying down Garden Street (on lecture mornings) so 

 covered by the mass of branches and flowers which 

 were to illustrate the lecture that his head and body 

 were hardly visible." l 



" The few who gathered around the little table in 

 Harvard Hall, in pursuit of knowledge which did not 

 count in the college reckoning, will never forget the 

 untiring patience with which he explained what then 

 seemed difficult, the contagious enthusiasm with which 

 he led them on from simple facts toward the higher 

 fields of science, or the tender personal interest which 

 he showed in their hopes and half-formed plans for 

 the future; an interest which, on his part, only 

 strengthened as years passed on, and makes them 

 now mourn, not so much the death of a great botanist 

 as the loss of a sympathizing friend." 2 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



April 30, 1858. 



I must tell you that in humble imitation of Kew, 

 I am going to establish a museum of vegetable pro- 

 ducts, etc., in our university. 



The erection of a new building for the Museum of 

 Comparative Anatomy and for the Mineralogical Cab- 

 inet liberates the very fine hall used for the Miner- 



1 Botanical Gazette, March, 1888. 



2 Memoir of Dr. Gray, American Academy, 1888. 



