﻿William 
  Gilson 
  Farlow. 
  93 
  

  

  have 
  come 
  in 
  contact 
  with 
  him 
  as 
  a 
  teacher, 
  or 
  who 
  have 
  

   been 
  associated 
  with 
  him 
  in 
  botanical 
  work, 
  few 
  would 
  

   not 
  acknowledge 
  that 
  their 
  ideals 
  had 
  been 
  thns 
  funda- 
  

   mentally 
  influenced. 
  

  

  Although 
  in 
  1896 
  he 
  withdrew 
  from 
  active 
  teaching, 
  in 
  

   order 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  have 
  his 
  whole 
  time 
  free 
  for 
  other 
  

   activities, 
  he 
  continued 
  occasionally 
  to 
  give 
  attention 
  to 
  

   advanced 
  students 
  in 
  whose 
  work 
  he 
  felt 
  a 
  special 
  inter- 
  

   est; 
  and 
  retained, 
  until 
  his 
  death, 
  his 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  

   Faculty, 
  of 
  which, 
  after 
  a 
  continuous 
  service 
  of 
  forty- 
  

   five 
  years, 
  he 
  had 
  become 
  the 
  senior 
  member. 
  

  

  After 
  his 
  appointment 
  as 
  Professor, 
  his 
  life 
  was 
  passed 
  

   almost 
  wholly 
  in 
  Cambridge 
  ; 
  although 
  he 
  made 
  several 
  

   brief 
  visits 
  to 
  Europe, 
  and 
  went 
  twice 
  to 
  Bermuda 
  and 
  

   to 
  Florida. 
  In 
  1885 
  he 
  accompanied 
  Asa 
  Gray 
  to 
  Mexico 
  

   and 
  California; 
  but 
  otherwise 
  his 
  field 
  work 
  was 
  done 
  

   almost 
  wholly 
  in 
  New 
  England 
  ; 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  in 
  the 
  

   vicinity 
  of 
  Boston; 
  at 
  Eastport, 
  Maine; 
  at 
  Shelburne, 
  

   N. 
  H. 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  White 
  Mountains, 
  more 
  recently 
  at 
  

   Chocorua, 
  where 
  his 
  summer 
  home, 
  overlooking 
  the 
  lake, 
  

   was 
  situated 
  in 
  a 
  mycologist's 
  paradise. 
  

  

  In 
  Cambridge 
  he 
  was 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  a 
  parietal 
  officer, 
  and 
  

   at 
  various 
  periods 
  occupied 
  rooms 
  in 
  several 
  dormitories, 
  

   where 
  he 
  used 
  to 
  give 
  memorable 
  entertainments 
  to 
  his 
  

   students 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  1893 
  he 
  bought 
  the 
  Putnam 
  house 
  on 
  

   Quincy 
  Street, 
  next 
  to 
  the 
  Colonial 
  Club, 
  where 
  he 
  kept 
  

   bachelor's 
  hall 
  until, 
  in 
  1900, 
  the 
  great 
  happiness 
  of 
  his 
  

   marriage 
  to 
  Miss 
  Lilian 
  Horsford 
  transformed 
  it 
  into 
  a 
  

   home 
  to 
  be 
  shared 
  by 
  a 
  beloved 
  companion. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Farlow 
  ? 
  s 
  memory 
  was 
  phenomenal, 
  and 
  his 
  esti- 
  

   mate 
  of 
  values 
  keen 
  and 
  sure. 
  He 
  actually 
  read 
  the 
  

   literature 
  of 
  his 
  subject, 
  not 
  contenting 
  himself 
  with 
  

   summaries 
  or 
  abstracts, 
  or 
  confining 
  his 
  reading 
  within 
  

   narrow 
  limits. 
  His 
  first-hand 
  knowledge 
  of 
  multitudes 
  

   of 
  forms 
  thus 
  combined 
  to 
  make 
  his 
  judgments 
  and 
  

   opinions 
  those 
  of 
  an 
  expert 
  in 
  almost 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  

   groups 
  of 
  cryptogams, 
  and 
  in 
  questions 
  relating 
  to 
  his 
  

   specialties 
  and 
  their 
  literature 
  he 
  was 
  justly 
  regarded 
  as 
  

   a 
  court 
  of 
  last 
  resort. 
  

  

  His 
  professional 
  reputation 
  was 
  quite 
  as 
  great 
  in 
  

   Europe 
  as 
  in 
  America, 
  and 
  his 
  correspondents 
  included 
  

   a 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  prominent 
  members 
  of 
  his 
  pro- 
  

   fession 
  throughout 
  the 
  world. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  degrees 
  

   of 
  A.B., 
  A.M., 
  M.D., 
  and 
  the 
  honorary 
  LL.D. 
  which 
  he 
  

  

  