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too, he has the advantage of the interest in the work felt by 

 Professor Oliver and Mr. Thiselton Dyer. 



The Kew ' Index,' which will, in all probability, be ready 

 to go to press in four or five years, will be a fitting memorial 

 of my father : and his share in its completion illustrates a 

 part of his character his ready sympathy with work outside 

 his own lines of investigation and his respect for minute 

 and patient labour in all branches of science.] 



