440 CORRESPONDENCE. [1858, 
Philadelphia, speaks of Dr. Gray’s patient drilling of 
him in writing his thesis, making him go over and 
over it again, until it had been rewritten six times 
before he allowed him to be satisfied with it. His 
pupils would always remember his comment when 
satisfied, — “* That is neatly stated.” 
And Dr. Farlow shows the picturesque figure “ hur- 
rying down Garden Street (on lecture mornings) so 
covered by the mass of branches and flowers which 
were to illustrate the lecture that his head and body 
were hardly visible.” ! 
“The few who gathered around the little table in 
Harvard Hall, in pursuit of knowledge which did not 
count in the college reckoning, will never forget the 
untiring patience with which he explained what then 
seemed difficult, the contagious enthusiasm with which 
he led them on from simple facts toward the higher 
fields of science, or the tender personal interest which 
he showed in their hopes and half-formed plans for 
the future; an interest which, on his part, only 
strengthened as years passed on, and makes them 
now mourn, not so much the death of a great botanist 
as the loss of a sympathizing friend.” 2 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
April 30, 1858. 
I must tell you that in humble imitation of Kew, 
I am going to establish a museum of vegetable pro- 
ducts, ete., in our university. 
The erection of a new building for the Museum of 
Comparative Anatomy and for the Mineralogical Cab- 
inet liberates the very fine hall used for the Miner- 
1 Botanical Gazette, March, 188 
2 Memoir of Dr. Gray, raat yer ees 1888. 
