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Cause, and was in harmony with a faith in a Deity 
who has created and governs all things! God grant 
that it may be allowed such a man at length to carry 
to a happy completion that great work, which he long 
ago began, of more accurately describing the flora 
of North America! Meanwhile, this man who has 
so long adorned his fair science by his labors and his 
life, even unto a hoary age, ‘ bearing,’ as our poet 
says, ‘the white blossom of a blameless life,’ him, I 
say, we gladly crown, at least with these flowerets of 
praise, with this corolla of honor (his saltem laudis 
flosculis, hac saltem honoris corolla, libenter corona- 
mus). For many, many years may Asa Gray, the 
venerable priest of Flora, render more illustrious this 
academic crown.” 
England was in a stir with the Queen’s Jubilee ; it 
was impossible to be in London on the twenty-first, as 
Dr. Gray must get to Oxford to receive his degree 
on the twenty-second, and a good part of the day was 
used in crossing country by various railroads; but the 
sight of the crowds, the decorations, the bands every- 
where, was very interesting, and the enthusiasm con- 
tagious. Oxford had its gay share of illumination in 
the evening, and the next day Dr. Gray received his 
degree with several others, among them his old Cam- 
bridge acquaintance, Story, the sculptor. 
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BLaAcHFoRD, Sunday, July 2. 
. . . T am to add some supplementary notes. 
At the Cambridge University lunch, I had Mrs. 
Jebb assigned to me to take in. Oscar Browning took 
the seat on my right. Opposite was a man I was 
