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clerical aid, except of my mother. Thirty years of purely 

 editorial work without a Co-editor of any kind, was a hope- 

 less task, and his ' Journals of Botany,' 31 vols., with useless 

 indexes, have been the despair of botanists. The amount 

 of curious, novel and instructive matter that they contain 

 is marvellous, and I have long appendices classifying their 

 contents as best I could. 



These appendices were specially laborious, with their 

 chronological catalogues of all Sir William's writings great 

 and small ; the classification of the more important articles 

 and reviews in his various Journals of Botany, arranged under 

 the names of the countries involved, of the authors, of special 

 groups of plants or general works ; lists of economic plants 

 described or discussed ; of obituary notices, or articles physio- 

 logical, morphological, and anatomical ; of Sir William's 

 principal botanical correspondents with the number of letters 

 from each. But his affectionate admiration of his father was 

 built deep into the very foundations of his life, and it was 

 for him a labour of love as well as justice to raise a worthy 

 monument to his memory. To the last his pleasure was 

 always aroused by appreciation of his father's work ; witness 

 his letter to Sir Edward Fry in 1910 when he adopted the 

 plates drawn by Sir William for his own work on British Mosses. 

 (See p. 473 seq.) 



This was not the only point where the cycle of time swung 

 round and brought up old interests of his again. The 

 Himalayas were to come before him again through Dr. Douglas 

 Freshfield's l mountain ascents and geological studies ; Dr. 

 Arber's paper on Tasmanian fossil trees was to recall his own 

 first paper sent back from the Erebus ; the wonderful dis- 

 coveries of the Antarctic voyage to be revived by the corres- 

 pondence with Dr. Bruce and Captain Scott ; the Darwin 

 friendship to be lit up with a sunset glow by the publication 

 of the ' More Letters of Charles Darwin,' dedicated to himself, 



1 Dr. Douglas William Freshfield, D.C.L. (6. 1845), President of the Alpine 

 Club 1893-5, has written on his travels and ascents in the Caucasus, the Italian 

 Alps, and the Himalayas. Formerly Secretary of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, he has been President since 1914, and received the Gold Medal of the 

 Society in 1903, the year in which he published Hound Kanchenjanga. 



