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ships of the group may be incidents of the description of the 
finding of a new species, and so forth." 
Another botanist, Mr. Antony Gepp of the British Museum, 
in an article " In Memory of Richard Spruce " in The Journal of 
Botany (February 1894), writes as follows: — "His Hepaticcn 
of the Amazon and the Andes is the most logical and scientific 
classification of the group that has been evolved, and is based 
entirely upon broad and constant characters that had previously 
been overlooked or underrated. 
" Mr. Spruce delighted to lead his readers on from the imme- 
diate subject to kindred matters, illustrating his arguments with 
copious instances, analogies, and original observations. Thus, 
after describing the new Irish hepatic Lejeiinea Holtii^ he proceeds 
to contrast the comparative wealth of Lejeunese found at Killarney 
(13 species) with the three known to occur in the rest of 
Europe ; and so passes on to a general consideration of the 
phenomena of distribution and the part played by animals as 
carriers of seeds and spores, quoting an anecdote told him by an 
Indian of the Rio Negro of the revels held by the beasts of the 
forest upon a clearing, immediately after it had been deserted by 
its owners." 
And lastly, the distinguished veteran botanist Sir Joseph D. 
Hooker writes me the following brief but very high appreciation : 
" No doubt his (Spruce's) monumental work on the Hepatieae 
is his crowning" one, and will ever live." 
