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Cause, and was in harmony with a faith in a Deity 

 who has created and governs all things ! God grant 

 that it may be allowed such a man at length to carry 

 to a happy completion that great work, which he long 

 ago began, of more accurately describing the flora 

 of North America! Meanwhile, this man who has 

 so long adorned his fair science by his labors and his 

 life, even unto a hoary age, ' bearing,' as our poet 

 says, ' the white blossom of a blameless life,' him, I 

 say, we gladly crown, at least with these flowerets of 

 praise, with this corolla of honor (his saltern laudis 

 flosculis, hac saltem honoris corolla, libenter corona- 

 mus). For many, many years may Asa Gray, the 

 venerable priest of Flora, render more illustrious this 

 academic crown." 



England was in a stir with the Queen's Jubilee ; it 

 was impossible to be in London on the twenty-first, as 

 Dr. Gray must get to Oxford to receive his degree 

 on the twenty-second, and a good part of the day was 

 used in crossing country by various railroads ; but the 

 sight of the crowds, the decorations, the bands every- 

 where, was very interesting, and the enthusiasm con- 

 tagious. Oxford had its gay share of iUmnination in 

 the evening, and the next day Dr. Gray received his 

 degree with several others, among them his old Cam- 

 bridge acquaintance. Story, the sculptor. 



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Blachfokd, Sunday, July 2. 



... I am to add some supplementary notes. 



At the Cambridge University kmch, I had Mrs. 

 Jebb assigned to me to take in. Oscar Browning took 

 the seat on my right. Opposite was a man I was 



