264 HEWETY COTTRELL WATSON. 
sent = it = Sir J. D. Ho oker, who was thirteen or 
ep 
Professor Babington, Dr. Boswell, and Mr. Watson, were 
ardent entomologists niga hey finally settled down to Botany. 
man of great individuality and of many-sided 
character, and I have often pig mused to note how differently 
different people estimated him, according to the parts of his dis- 
position with which they had been brought in contact. 
scientific point of view, he finished the task which in early life he 
set himself to accomplish with admirable perspicacity and com- 
pleteness. When M. Alphonse DeCandolle lately made out a a 
of botanical epochs, he counted the publication of the ‘ Cybele’ 
one of them, But in some ta it was not the ae ak of his 
ness that his published writings show. With him botanical 
eography is not simply a gathering together of statistics, and a 
pain 
his little weakness and shortcomings ae in print. He se 
an argumen ea man who can ride well loves a gallop on a 
spirited horse. He was accurate Abt sléad- headed to a rondlaetel 
Re bungling and blundering. He was a pionee 
m a firm macadamised road he had much rubbish to shovel 
sas He was @ man of warm temper and strong prejudices ; and 
if he once got a notion that a man was radically careless or con- 
ame up. One of his pet prejudices was an objection to 
new names ed a. and the -givers were a favourite 
target for his ar nie thus it comes that those old papers in 
often full of lively reeedtial interest. ‘Ah!’ he said more 
a 
same slashing critic was in some ways almost mor- 
bidly self-distrustful and considerate of other people’s feelings. 
Although he wrote so much, he never seemed to like beg! a 
ae oo be sold; and so several of them never foun 
