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the original and primordial typus, which he suspected was Rubus 
Leesti, and which was to be a rag of all the cousinhood o 
blackberries and raspberries in axistono I fear he has left his mono- 
graphy unfinished. Life is short, and “hnunblen are interminable.” 
etter from J. L. Warren "(unde date May 26, 1887), in Sir 
Se intetaart Grant Duff's Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888, i. 119. 
Joun Batt (1818-1899). 
. I send you a Latin epigram, which I discharged against 
our friend Tolth, Ball, who had written to suggest to me that if I had 
sought my out-of- door pleasures among plants and flowers instead of 
in the pursuit of woodcocks, I should have saaaisod th misadventure. 
I wished to suggest to him that my pleasures were near at hand, 
while ae involved great wanderings, incompatible with my mode 
of life. I think you will admit that I have shown some ingenuity 
in weaving into my oe 
‘ Strange na 
Such as would seh Quintilian stare and gasp.’ 
I am especially proud of my victory over Popocatapetl.’’ 
The following is the epigram alluded to :— 
‘In Johannem Ballu 
* Botanistam Vapudaudeen: 
Alpibus emensis currit Botanista per 
udque humeris cceli pondus Steet sustinet pies) 
acumin 
Quid memorem Libanum ? Monten quid vos Boopulail) 2 
Omne solum erroni patria est gratissima Ballo 
ec mora, nec requies! Petit ardens wo eee 
vec metuet legum contemtores Gar wtf 
tesplendens glacie Mons Cookius attralet et qui® 
opitos queritur Popocatapetlius ignes. 
Lassatusque redit, needum sati atus ad Fa u 
Letter from Lord Aberdare (under date 8 March, 1887) in Sir 
Mountstuart Grant Duff's Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888, i. 66-7. 
LT et 
DRICK. 
‘“*T had never telat seen the Herbarium of 1672, collected by : 
of the Brodrick family in, as [Lord] Midleton thinks, 
ood of Wandsworth i 
amine it a great deal more carefully than I had time to do.” 
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary, 1889-91, ii. 16 
[Farnham Castle, Aug. 7, 1890]. 
focabulum A me audacter inventum, so Herbario. 
eet in ren with Sir Joseph Hook 
tocky Moun 
re gens oelasie Africana 
fount Coo fin i Salsa. 13,000 feet high, of which the glaciers 
l almost to he 
‘opocatapetl, eutiaet voleano in Mexico, 17,000 feet high. 
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