660 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1876, 
with Eliot, A. Agassiz, and two Brazilians. They came 
to the house, the door being open, and I received them 
in the library. . . . Sargent was with me to take him 
off my hands when I had to go. We treated him 
as we should any gentleman, though I believe I once 
addressed him as Your Majesty when flourishing the 
poison-bottle under his nose. He is a large, square- 
built, good-looking man of about my age, I think. 
Never did I have more questions to answer in ten 
minutes, nor questions more direct and to the point. 
Taken into the herbarium, he recognized what it was, 
complimented me by saying that my name was a well- 
known one (I suppose Agassiz had. put him up to 
that), and I returned by saying that, in at least one 
case, we were members of the same botanical society. 
“ How many species of plants have you specimens 
of?” About 65,000 
“ How do you arrange them?” Cases opened, and 
I began to show him. 
** Please let me see some plant.” 
I pulled out the genus cover first at hand, which 
happened to be European Saxifrages; opened. He 
took up a sheet. 
“Saxifraga irrigua, European. I do not want to 
see plants of Europe. Let me see an American 
plant.” 
I took another cover and showed Saxifraga peltata 
of California. 
“Have you Sage-brush?”’ Yes. 
“ Let me see Sage-brush.” 
I took him across the room to the Artemisias, and 
showed him, first, the one he saw so much of en route 
to California; second, the northern one to which 
Lewis and Clark gave the name at first. 
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