52 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ March, 
afternoon, remarked that it must have been a great pleasure — 
to him to read the friendly greetings, he replied: _ 1 haves 
not read them yet. I must work now. This evening I shall : 
have time to read them.”’ ' 
To speak of his hospitality might, in some connections, 
appear ungracious. But here, as botanists, we may touch — 
upon a subject associated by us, especially, with so many 
tender recollections. When we heard that Prof. Gray was — 
dead we recognized the irreparable Joss to American botany 
in the death of its leader, but our first thoughts turned to the — 
happy home now so deeply afflicted, and we recalled the — 
bright days when all were welcomed with a sincere and ‘ 
hearty greeting. No matter whether a titled foreigner, Or a — 
poor, and perhaps friendless, student from our own land, all 
botanists were welcomed with the same unostentatious hospl- 
tality, guided by that intuitive delicacy which anticipates the - 
wishes of others, and draws timidity from its reserve. Many, — 
many botanists now count among their happiest hours those — 
spent at the old house in Cambridge, and, with sorrow — 
mingled with gratitude, sincerely hope that their sympathy 
may prove, in some measure, a consolation to his bereaved 
wife, his companion for many years, his counterpart 1 
all that is gentle, true and noble. For a while we may think — 
only of what we have lost, but when time shall have blunted — 
the edge of our sorrow we shall recognize that the best part — 
of a well-spent life is the fragrant memory which it leaves — 
behind W. G. Fae 
Cambridge, Mass. 
lowa Peronosporee and a dry season. 
BYRON D., HALSTED: | 
The readers of the Borantcat Gazerre who are inter~ 
ested in the downy 
connection with a season of excessive dry- ‘ 
he last two years central Iowa has been visited — 
by a drought unequaled in the history of the state, a drought d 
adows and pastures brow? — 
mer, but was so prolonged as to empty uy 
lls and dry up streams of considera~ ; 
