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the conception of lichens as autonomous organisms. His method of 

 work, partly no doubt cramped by the inroads on his time of official 

 duties, made him more and more disinclined to generalise from large 

 series of facts. In striving for minute accuracy he, especially in his 

 later work, somewhat lost the gift of seeing things in a larger 

 perspective. 



He was never married, and to his friend Bornet fell the lot of 

 watching his last moments. — W. T. T. D. 



