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depend on her quicker ear and keener eye, were beautiful to 
ehold 
Few men have taken more active part in the discussions 
of the day, or acted more constantly or prominently as critic 
and reviewer. Yet, while he could be severe in private, his 
his botanical and intellectual work proper, I hold to be the 
value of the lesson of his simple, stainless life. Hooker 
points out the great similarity in the lives of Gray and the 
elder De Candolle. In the purity of his character, in the 
; last 
€ last time I met Dr. Gray was in Sep pannel ae the 
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