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rural district; and with few advantages, follow- 

 ing the bent of a marked scientific genius, he had 

 won for himself before reaching middle life a 

 leading place. I was soon to know him better, 

 for it was my fortunate lot to be one in the crowd 

 of juniors which for a term lined up before him 

 once a week or so in Holden Chapel." 



He was happy, too, in his work, though ham- 

 pered for want of funds for the garden and his 

 books. He found it difficult, in 1847, to make an 

 arrangement " for the publication of the Illus- 

 trated Genera and arranged to pay the expenses 

 of the first volume, but it led him heavily into 

 debt." The first edition of his Manual appeared 

 in 1848, " a model of clear arrangement and mas- 

 terly description." Associated with the Manual 

 were the various text-books, from How Plants 

 Grow, 1858, to the Structural Botany , 1879. One 

 of his best papers was on The Relation of the 

 Japanese Flora to that of North America. 



Gray, with his wife, sailed for England on 

 June II, 1850. Though it is tempting to dwell 

 on all his journeys, his visits and enthusiastic 

 work while abroad, the boundaries of a short 

 biography would soon be passed. 



How much he did in the way of collecting and 

 writing can only be estimated by those who knew 

 how he kept in constant correspondence with old 

 pupils and scientists. Those who are curious as 



