eos. 
mr, 74.] TO JOHN H. REDFIELD, TT5 
“Mr. Wright was a person of low stature and well- 
knit frame, hardy rather than strong, scrupulously 
temperate, a man of simple ways, always modest and 
unpretending, but direct and downright in expression, 
most amiable, trusty, and religious. He accomplished 
a great amount of useful and excellent work for 
botany in the pure and simple love of it; and his 
memory is held in honorable and grateful remem- 
brance by his surviving associates.” ! 
TO JOHN H. REDFIELD. 
Camprinck, November 3, 1885. 
My pear ReEeprFreLp, —I was interested in your 
Corema Con. 
I have a remark to make on the last sentence of it ; 
I would ask, How could the plant have an introduction 
following the glacial period? And where could it 
have come from ? 
Of course my idea is that it existed at the higher 
north before the glacial period — that is my fad. 
But one sees that this is one of a few plants that 
may be appealed to in behalf of an Atlantis theory, — 
as coming across the Atlantic, making this Corema a 
derivation from C. alba, of Portugal, or of its ancestor. 
But the Atlantic is thought to be too deep for an At- 
lantis; and we do not need it much. 
What induces me to refer to your paragraph is to 
ask whether your “following the glacial period,” 
that is, recent introduction, means in your thought 
that our species is a direct descendant of Corema 
alba, which by some chance got wafted across the 
Atlantic. 
1 American Journal of Science, 3 ser. xxxi, 12. — 1886. gaia 
in Scientific Papers, selected by C. S. Sargent, a ii. p. 468. 
