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expressing his regret that he could not be present to pay tribute 
to his good friend. 
Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, who knew Dr. Greene 
intimately as a boy, having been one of his schoolmates, expressed 
his gratification at being able to be present, and related how 
Dr. Greene became interested in botany in his younger days, 
having received inspiration and instruction from a Swedish 
botanist, Thure Ludwig Theodore Kumlien, who lived in his 
neighborhood. In later years the Senator found him as a professor 
of botany in the Catholic University, and they renewed their 
friendship. He spoke of him as being kind-hearted, congenial, 
industrious, and having a most lovable disposition; he felt that 
he never had a better friend in Washington. Besides being a man 
of the highest integrity, and entirely fearless, he was an eminent 
scientist, and a great scholar—not in the sense of having just one 
idea—his views covered more than the subject of botany; it was 
therefore very unfortunate that his life could not be spared much 
longer. ‘‘Nothing was so painful and so grievous to me as the 
news of Dr. Greene’s death.”’ 
Mr. W. E. Safford, Secretary of the Botanical Society of 
Washington, in his tribute said that while Dr. Greene was a 
great botanist, he was not an orthodox botanist. He made it a 
point to do honor to those to whom honor was due, and tried to 
keep the memory of the very old botanists from sinking into 
oblivion. 
Dr. W. A. Orton took pleasure in testifying to the esteem in 
which the younger botanists of Washington held Dr. Greene for 
his wonderful knowledge of ancient languages and his broad views 
which placed him in a unique position. 
He described a meeting of the Botanical Society, given in 
honor of Dr. Greene, which hardly a member of the Society failed 
to attend. ‘‘It is now a lasting pleasure to have paid that tribute 
to the Doctor while he was here among us.”’ 
Dr. C. O. Townsend admired Dr. Greene greatly because 
he was an inspiration to every one interested in the work of botany; 
he often recalls the kindly expression which was on his face when 
he arose in the botanical meetings to address them—he seemed 
to tower above them all. The memory of Dr. Greene is therefore 
very pleasant and very beautiful. 
Dr. Theodore Holm, Dr. Greene’s oldest friend in Washington, 
