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Dr. Leach’s assistant almost in boyhood, was officially connected 
with the Museum in 1824, when Mr. Children became keeper o 
ment. The whole development of this noble collection has there- 
fore taken place under Dr. Gray’s superintendence. ‘To it he 
probably engaged in it. But it failed of suce ause 
it was not very well thought of by the leading botanists of Jus- 
sizan school, and partly on account of a pitiful osition 
- f the Linnzans, who subjected the young reformer 
to something very like persecution.” If was “over- 
ven to controversy,” perhaps this early ill-treatment may have 
fostered the disposition. When the Ro tanica: ty of 
cri 
Plants” (pp. 143, 8vo, Van Voorst), which, with other MSS. and 
papers, was made over to him by Mr. Burchell’s executor, after 
the death of the latter in 1864. Salisbury had bequeathed all his 
papers to Burchell, who made no use of them. Dr. Gray’s in- 
