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acknowledgment of the excellence of his bis At the same time 
he was directed to proceed scaly to the far East. 
In 1859 and 1860 he trave clled in “Mantahgeh: in ae he 
visited the island of Jesso; 1862, Nipon; 1863, Kin He 
returned to Europe by the sea a in 1864. It was shati ‘that he 
first visited England. He was at that time in a bad state of health, 
In 1869 he was appointed Botanicus Primari erial 
Botanical Garden at St. Petersburg also entrusted with 
e direction of the Herbarium of the Academy er 1866 he 
dies and Bulletins of the Academy, i most important being 
a monograph of the Rhododendrons of Eastern Asia, the sts gnoses 
breves Plantarum Novarum Japonia et Mandshie Decades i.—xx. 
the Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum Asiaticarum, i.-viii., &e. “tt was 
in the latter that he began to work out the large and e xceedingly 
i i j nin, &c., in Central 
sia. In consequence, however, of the extreme thoroughness of 
his work, and his highly critical method combined with over- 
whelming official duties, the first parts of these eT nt works 
1889. These a 
was not permitted to finish his work himself, it is certain that 
whatever he completed will last. He was of a noble, high-minded 
nature, a highly cultivated scholar in almost every branch of 
learning, and a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. 
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froma the very Srah As the leaves increase in size 
becomes much less apparent, and does not attract attention. 
Unfortunately I have not a _ root of P. veris to examine on 
point. I take advantage of this opportunity to notice a very 
