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Chesterton a quantity of the beautiful little moschatel 

 growing on the very spot where Ray recorded it in the 

 seventeenth century. When an old man, several years 

 past seventy, he insisted, one hot July day, on walking 

 many miles to see if a rare geranium still maintained its 

 old position near the Redcross turnpike. 



That men of science should be interested in botany 

 is more in accordance with the natural order of things. 

 Indeed in former times herbalism and medicine were 

 intimately associated together, and many of our early 

 botanists were physicians. Dr Turner, " the father of 

 English botany," was a physician before he became a 

 divine and Dean of Wells. So with most of the Con- 

 tinental herbalists of the sixteenth century. Leonard 

 Fuchs, the author of the most splendid herbal ever 

 published, was a physician ; so was Dodoens, the Dutch 

 herbalist ; and L'Obel, who was physician to William 

 the Silent ; and Mattioli, the great Italian botanist ; 

 and the two eminent brothers, Jean and Gaspard 

 Bauhin. In modern times the association no longer 

 exists, but a notable illustration of a celebrated surgeon 

 and man of science who found in wild flowers his 

 recreation is seen in the life of Lord Lister, one of the 

 greatest benefactors of mankind. During his career 

 as a medical student Lister made the acquaintance of 

 Professor Lindley, the distinguished botanist, and the 

 friendship left a lasting influence on his life. Lister 

 learnt from him the love of wild flowers which gave him 

 so keen a pleasure in after years. During his holidays 

 in Switzerland and at home he collected and carefully 

 preserved the choicer species he met with, and his 

 herbarium of Alpine plants became eventually a large 

 and valuable one. It was not as a scientific botanist 



