NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



existed, it would have been welcome informa- 

 tion, an earnest to them of the scientific 

 attainments of the man. 



But the fact that he has kept records, — 

 absolute and academic, if you will, even if 

 far less complete than he would have wished, — 

 this is not what gives him place in the ranks 

 of scientists. To find reason for this rank we 

 must look beyond the recording of data. Any 

 man with keen eyes and a note-book may 

 make records — the discovery of new truths 

 and the interpretation of old ones, the de- 

 struction of errors, the illumination of earth's 

 secret places, the extension of human knowl- 

 edge, — these He beyond. 



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