62 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ March, — 
EDITORIAL. 
IF WE were to give a list of the numerous papers and periodicals re- 
ceived containing notices of Dr. Gray’s death, it would represent the ex- 
pression of very many botanists. The sorrow over this sad event finds as 
wide an expression as did the warm and hearty response to the proposed 
memorial vase for his seventy-fifth birthday. The burden of these notices 
is the one constant refrain, that not only have we lost our leader, but, 
more than that, our friend. When did a scientific man ever leave 80 
fragrant a memory? When will we find that combination of graces im 
any other? “We will never see his like again,” is the very common ex- 
pression. If this unanimous showing that the best part of a man is his 
kindly, lovable spirit would only inspire every American botanist to cu- 
tivate it, Dr. Gray’s teaching would reach much farther than the department — 
of botany. A man whose keenest criticism is so kindly that it attracts 
and stimulates, whose wide charity sees good in every worker, however ae 
obscure, is one who must win to himself an army of followers who will 3 
ever use his name as an inspiration, a 
THE EDITORS have repeatedly called for contributions from their 
friends representing all departments of botany. This science has become 
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If the “ cryptogamically-minded 
ing and anxious to hear from them. And 
