DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 



have. You knov/ that the only spirit of antagonism I have on any botan^ 



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leal subject is based on what I believe to be the best advancement of 



Botany in jyaericai I have always succeeded someway to be at peace with 



all men in the botanical world tho I have not hesitated to tell some of 



them that I did not and could not agree with themi I have always felt 



that If the Cambridge men like Hand and others would meet with their 



botanical bretren instelbd of firing into their motives as he did vrithout 



ever having m^t most of them in a face to face taUc that there wduld 



have been less feeling|^ I rejoice -Co see that there is less of it than 



formerly* 



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