NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
existed, it would have been welcome informa- 
tion, an earnest to them of the scientific 
attainments of the man. 
But the fact that he has kept records,— 
absolute and academic, if you will, even if 
far less complete than he would have wished,— 
this is not what gives him place in the ranks 
of scientists. To find reason for this rank we 
must look beyond the recording of data. Any 
man with keen eyes and a note-book may 
make records—the discovery of new truths 
and the interpretation of old ones, the de- 
struction of errors, the illumination of earth’s 
secret places, the extension of human knowl- 
edge,—these lie beyond. 
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