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self-contained about Gray, no congealing atmosphere sur- 
rounding him. He was one of the people, and few men, in 
dying, have had more sincere mourners. 
oing an immense deal of what Prof. Lesley has so fitly 
characterized as ‘‘ dead work” in science, he yet found time 
not only to popularize his favorite study, but to deal point- 
edly with such broad and philosophic questions as grew out 
of the vast structure of fact which he so zealously helped to 
build. Where so much pure systematic work was accom- 
plished, and so much more planned, it is no easy matter (as 
some of us realize but too well) to rise above the vast detail 
oh lay such a broad educational foundation as this master 
id. 
Gray took a medical course, but can not be said to have 
had a classical education ; yet no man wrote more gorany A 
or with more grace and accuracy, and we can all indorse Sir 
Joseph Hooker’s words when he says, in a late able notice, 
that “How Plants Grow” and ‘How Plants Behave” for 
charm of matter and style have no equal in botanical litera- 
ture, and rival chapters in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction 
to Entomology. 
t seems almost a work of supererogation to endeavor to 
convey ‘any personal reminiscences of one who was so famil- 
iar a figure to so many of those gathered together here to do . 
honor to his memory. My own personal relations with him 
can but reflect those of hundreds of Washingtonians. They 
grew out of the impulse which had been given to the subject 
ind plants some two de- 
: own charming writings 
did so much to quicken. I shall never forget the keen inter- 
ji ad before the 
his hospitality at Cambridge, and have spent 
Ours with him in travel and in camp; 
his own hospitable table, amid the refineme 
life, or in the herbarium or the experimental gardens © 
rounding it; whether amid the whirl of travel, or in the ait 
¢ter enjoyment of camp life on Veta Fass, peel os 
©Xperienced exceptional inspiration, delight and instruc se 
inthe communion, True to his name in color of cloth an 
