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lucidity and accuracy, and for insight, George Bentham may 
led be compared with Linnzeus, DeCandolle, and Robert 
rown, 
fessional duty or necessity. For those endowed with leisure, 
i 
’ in her service, it is not a common 
here fittingly conclude. But one who knew him long and 
well may be allowed to add a word upon the personal charac- 
teristics of the subject of this memorial; the more so that he 
18 himself greatly indebted for generous help. For, long ago, 
Sie him and his companion to his house at Pontrilas, and 
evoted the greater part of his time for two months to this 
— amiable, warm-hearted, and even genial, “ the kindest of 
elpmates,” the most disinterested of friends. 
