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m MEMORTAM 
that had he been spared, his work, supported by his knowledge of 
the world, his wide reading and by his distrust of anything he 
could not personally verify, would have been more original and 
so perhaps more valuable. He was quite undaunted; he talked 
of taking up the Simla mosses when his Phanerogamic Flora should 
be published ! 5 
I devote these words to the memory of my friend. -I will but 
add this : no one who has ever come to work amongst us at Kew 
has more- completely won the affectionate regard of everyone with 
whom he has come in contact. 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyek. 
Kew, 1902. 
