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atiainments Judging from his weeding conversation, and corre- 
spondence have no hesitation in saying that his intellect is 
acute, sa profound, comprehensive, and logical in no ordinary 
egree. He combines the powers of accurate observation, analysis, 
and epee with the power of clear expression; and his manner 
of communicating the great and valuable store of aes infor- 
mation which he possesses is at at once lucid and logical. I have 
considered his — friendship as a source of ger asure and 
advantage ever since I knew him, and shall consider any College 
or University fortunate that shall enrol him amongst its professors 
in the branch of | science to which he has pac his chief 
attention—Botan 
The following is Sir J. D. Hooker’s écatittomiat of the same 
ate :— Mr. H. C. Watson has been personally known to me i 
nearly fourteen years as a zealous and excellent botanist, 
whose writings and experience I have derived great inulteetiod 
His knowledge of plants is very extensive, d of European, 
especially British, species, complete, and acquired by actual 
investigation. In the ‘eaves of physiological, structural, and 
systematic Botan well grounded; and his numerous works 
on that of Gecuiigtistak Batanty are pronounced by all to be of the 
highest ord n’s education, general information, and 
Cen re — sa his desire of, and facility in, 
mparting informatio obvious, that his society was greatly 
Aanitea both by the vbieaaiad: and calinte in Bota ws n Edinburg 
and Glasgow, during the many seasons when as a distingu ied 
student of Dr. Graham he devoted himself to the study of the 
ap ppp ea of the British Flora 
As a writer on the geographical distribution of a oie 
plants his Becks ata over more than forty y egin 
1832, when he was twenty-eight years ald, sadiee a with pore 
F rom first to last, so far as Botany was concerned, he neonietitaated 
unremitting diligence and patience. The graph from Herschell 
which ose as a motto for the ‘Cybele’ elieaea with charac- 
teristic clearness the spirit in which he worked :—‘ There is 
scarcely any ell iubie ad person who, if he has but the will, has 
particular case it was carried into effect with signal completeness. 
